Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, and his former nemesis, ex-Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada, have written dueling op-eds on the legislative filibuster in which Reid called for ending it and McConnell argued for keeping it in place.

“If future Democrats shortsightedly decide to reduce the Senate to majority rule, we’ll have lost a key safeguard of American government,” McConnell wrote in the New York Times last week.

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