Biden's Longtime Defense of Senate Rules Withers Under Partisan Rancor
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden’s decision to call for changing the Senate’s rules to pass voting rights protections was a long time coming. Perhaps — in the view of his most disaffected supporters — too long. A self-proclaimed institutionalist who spent more than three decades abiding by those...
A self-proclaimed institutionalist who spent more than three decades abiding by those rules as a senator, Biden repeatedly defended the often-arcane procedures of the Senate, even as Republicans used them to block his agenda and he came under increasing pressure from liberal activists in his party to rethink his position.
