Does the Filibuster Still Serve a Purpose?

We’ve lost the noble goal of preserving legislative debate. The filibuster has become nothing more than a bludgeon.

John Green | July 20, 2026

The Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act (SAVE) has ripped the scab off of the festering wound we call the Senate filibuster.  Requiring proof of citizenship to vote is favored by over 80 percent of the electorate — at least of those voters who can legally vote.  Its passage should be a no-brainer.  But apparently the Senate lacks the brains for a no-brainer — or else our dedicated “public servants” have some motive they’re not sharing with us.

On prime-time television last Thursday night, President Trump announced the declassification of documents related to the 2020 election.  Now we’re getting a glimpse into those burn bags Director Patel discovered, and our suspicions are confirmed: The 2020 election was not as advertised.  No wonder ABC, NBC, and CNN refused to air the president’s address.  They were the chief advertisers of “THE MOST SECURE ELECTION IN HISTORY.”

Was there a Chinese cyber-attack on our election infrastructure?  Yes.  Were there hundreds of thousands of illegal voters on the rolls?  Yup.  Did the Deep State hide the evidence of election-tampering?  You betcha.  Was a president kept in the dark about a foreign attack?  Gulp...yes.  Was the election too compromised to know who actually won?  It seems so.  Was an investigation of the election “back-burnered” by the Biden administration?  You better believe it.

The evidence President Trump presented highlights the need to take corrective action, and Americans have given his party the legislative majority needed to do it (just barely).  Just one thing stands in the way: the Senate........

© American Thinker