Senate Republicans are quietly preparing to carve a huge new loophole into the filibuster at the behest of the fossil-fuel industry, dramatically expanding the chamber’s ability to change the law with a simple majority. In January, at the end of Biden’s presidency, the EPA granted the state “waivers” to impose a package of strict requirements designed to accelerate the adoption of electric vehicles. And even if it somehow prevailed at a hostile Supreme Court, the Senate would have already crossed the Rubicon, disarming the filibuster as a meaningful constraint on the majority’s power in a way that could easily be repeated as litigation works a winding path to the high court.
Author: Mark Joseph Stern
Published at: 2025-05-14 21:05:28
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