Save the SAVE Act: Sunset the Filibuster

The U.S. House has handed Senate Republicans yet another reason to bury the beloved, albeit obsolete, filibuster.

The House on Wednesday passed the SAVE America Act. It would give this country's too-often dirty elections the power-washing that they desperately need. Before federal elections, it would make states scrub their rolls of duplicate registrations and relocated, deceased, or otherwise ineligible voters.

Currently registered voters would be unaffected, but new ones must prove US citizenship. And everyone must present photo ID to vote. Senate Democrat leader Chuck Schumer of New York calls this "Jim Crow 2.0."

Disgusting!

How dare Schumer trivialize the pain of black Americans who faced segregated bathrooms, whites-only bus benches, and noose-filled trees? When blacks show photo ID at airports, is that Jim Crow 747?

According to Pew Research, 76% of blacks and 82% of Hispanics spurn Schumer's slur and favor photo ID. So do 83% of Americans, 95% of Republicans, and even 71% of Democrats.

Pennsylvania's John Fetterman notwithstanding, Senate Democrats sooner would gargle molten glass than mandate photo ID. They hate anything that hinders vote fraud, which they have mastered.

To secure honest elections at the mid-terms and beyond, Republicans must sunset the filibuster — like putting a beautiful-but-decrepit family Labrador to sleep.

Republicans who cherish the filibuster as an embankment against runaway government would be right — if the Senate still included rational Democrats such as Louisiana's John Breaux, Nebraska's Bob Kerrey, and Connecticut's Joe Lieberman. They preserved the filibuster, knowing that Republicans would do likewise.

But this is not your parents' Democrat Party. Today's neo-Marxists begged 8.7 million illegal aliens to invade America and then showered them with freebies. Relentless far-Left Democrats tried to throw Donald J. Trump off the 2024 ballot and into prison. Some 2020s Democrats did cartwheels after Charlie Kirk's assassination.

Too many Senate Republicans naively believe that these Hamas-hugging degenerates would let this parliamentary procedure derail their agenda. Indeed, 46 of 48 Democrats already voted on January 19, 2022 to junk the filibuster.

Former Democrat senators Joe Manchin of West Virginia, Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona, and unanimous Republicans saved it. The next such Democrat-led vote almost certainly will kill it.

A filibuster-free Democrat Senate and House would make Republican nightmares come true:

• Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and perhaps other territories would become states. Four, six, or even more Democrats would join the Senate, likely for good.

• Democrats would swell the Supreme Court and clog it with Leftist justices.

• Fifteen to 20 million illegal aliens would score amnesty, citizenship, and voter-registration cards.

Amid these insurmountable challenges, Republicans could wave goodbye to the presidency, Congress, and the Court. The USA would become a workers' paradise sooner than Republicans could say,"Das Kapital."

The power to bury the filibuster is like a loaded Glock resting on a table. Soft-headed Republicans won't touch it. They innocently reckon that if today's Democrats captured the Senate, they would mirror their non-crazy predecessors and leave the Glock alone.

As if.

Republicans must overcome their nostalgia for yesterday's filibuster — when Democrats were liberals, not Jacobins. GOP senators need to grab that Glock first, retire the filibuster, and then enact America First reforms, while Republicans still can: Their precarious House majority is just a stroke, sex scandal, or special-election upset from annihilation.

Filibuster-free Republicans should adopt:

• The SAVE America Act

• A limited-government cure for ObamaCare

• Legislation to turn Trump's executive orders into statutes

• Census rules that count only citizens for reapportionment

• As much conservative legislation as Trump can sign

Fragile Republicans argue that if Democrats won a post-filibuster Senate, they would govern like unleashed Rottweilers. But if Republicans stay tethered to the filibuster, the next Democrat Senate will trash it before lunch on Day One, anyway.

The filibuster served a noble purpose, but Republicans cannot afford to struggle under it now, only to suffer slings and arrows the moment Democrat radicals reign without its restraints.

© 2026 Deroy Murdock