FLASHBACK: Schumer, threatening to nix filibuster, fought for its survival in 2005
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Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., previously defended the filibuster in 2005 despite threatening to nix the rule in recent weeks.
"We are on the precipice of a crisis. A constitutional crisis. The checks and balances which have been at the core of this republic are about to be evaporated by the nuclear option," Schumer said, referencing an option to eliminate the filibuster, during a 2005 speech. "The checks and balances which say that if you get 51% of the vote, you don’t get your way 100% of the time." He added that discussion of the "nuclear option" was "almost a temper tantrum by those on the hard, hard right," who "want … their way every single time."
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