Democrats in the United States Senate are poised to put forward a bill this week to codify the right to an abortion in federal law – a move that will almost certainly fail because of rules in the legislature.President Joe Biden’s Democratic Party holds a majority in the US Congress, so why have many of the president’s legislative proposals – ranging from police reform to voting rights – failed to win passage?The reason is that rules in the US Senate generally require a 60-vote margin to pass most legislation because of a parliamentary weapon called a “filibuster”. A filibuster is simply a tactic for keeping debate open indefinitely on a measure, thus preventing it from coming to a vote.
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