Editors at National Review Online critique Kamala Harris’ stance on the U.S. Senate’s filibuster.
Michael Kinsley once defined a gaffe as when a politician accidentally tells the truth. If this has come to be known as a “Kinsley gaffe,” perhaps it should be called a “Harris gaffe” when a stage-managed politician accidentally reveals her plans.
In one of her rare unscripted media appearances, Kamala Harris told Wisconsin Public Radio that she supports ending the Senate filibuster in order to pass federal abortion legislation. “I think we should eliminate the filibuster for Roe,” she said, so that “51 votes would be what we need to actually put back in law the protections for reproductive freedom.”
This is not the first time that Harris has backed ending the filibuster, having done so in 2019 (to pass the “Green New Deal” she was endorsing as a presidential candidate) and in 2022 (when she joined Joe Biden in claiming that it was necessary because Democrats needed to pass a voting and elections bill). Harris had defended the filibuster in 2017, but that was different because Democrats were in the minority then in both houses of Congress, and Republicans held the White House
.A principled stance, this is not. But it is revealing.
Harris has made abortion the overriding theme of her campaign. It is nearly the only issue upon which she speaks with clarity and conviction. The substance of what she is proposing is radical — Roe was more sweeping than is commonly understood, while the Democratic bill is more sweeping still.
It is characteristic of her past words and deeds that, because she favors abortion, she brooks no restraints on supporting it. Thus, she claims that the federal government has the power by statute to override state abortion bans (it does not). Thus, she is willing to remake the United States Senate and bulldoze two centuries of its traditions in order to get this unconstitutional law.
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