President Joe Biden got a big boost from his former boss in his pitch for the Senate to change filibuster rules to facilitate the passage of voting reform legislation opposed by Republicans resistant to federal laws that govern how states and localities run their elections.

“The filibuster has no basis in the Constitution,” former President Barack Obama, who, like Biden, was once a senator, wrote in an op-ed published by USA Today on Wednesday.

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