Josh Marshall on how US democracy can be saved
"You simply can’t do it with the filibuster and this Supreme Court in place."
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Josh Marshall, founder of Talking Points Memo and a longtime friend of this newsletter, has recently made the need for fundamental reform of the Senate and Supreme Court a focus of his writing.
So as a weekend bonus for subscribers, we connected with Marshall to discuss why abolishing the filibuster and breaking the power of the Court’s right-wing majority is absolutely essential if democracy is to survive in the United States.
“The reforms I’m describing do not come naturally to me. It’s something I resisted for a long time,” Marshall told us. “I get the impulses of people who find this to be a step too far, but I do think if you look at what is necessary to reinforce democratic self-government in the United States, you simply can’t do that with the filibuster and this Supreme Court in place.”
A full transcript of Marshall’s conversation with Public Notice contributor Thor Benson, lightly edited for length and clarity, follows. If you’d like to read it and aren’t already a paid subscriber, please consider becoming one. This newsletter (and my work in general) is entirely funded by readers, and paid subscribers are the only reason I’m able to keep everything we publish Monday through Friday free for everyone.
