I don't think Manchin is right here. As I show in my recent LSQ article, bipartisanship is a regular occurrence in legislatures even when the minority party has no institutional veto power.
More partisan bills, sure. But it won't destroy the country.
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More partisan bills, sure. But it won't destroy the country.
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onlinelibrary.wiley.com Partisan Governance and Minority Party Vetoes: Evidence from State Legislatures It is often argued that bipartisan lawmaking depends on minority legislative parties controlling institutional veto points through divided government and/or supermajority pivots. Using a new dataset... New — Joe Manchin, a staunch defender of the filibuster, tells us he WON’T endorse Kamala Harris now over her vow to gut the filibuster to codify Roe.View quoted post on X
“Shame on her," Manchin, who is retiring at year's end, said in the Capitol. "She knows the filibuster is the Holy Grail of democracy. It's the only thing that keeps us talking and working together. If she gets rid of that, then this would be the House on steroids."
Now that Harris has vowed to gut the filibuster on this issue, Manchin said he wouldn't back her for president.
"That ain't going to happen," he said. "I think that basically can destroy our country and my country is more important to me than any one person or any one person's ideology...I think it's the most horrible thing."
