Ghost Filibuster Haunts Climate Action

What the threat of a filibuster means for legislative action to address the threat of climate change.

Read-your-grandma’s-chicken-recipe filibusters no longer hold the Senate floor, but their threat routinely holds up plans to legislate ambitious action on problems like climate change. Lawyer Tom Geoghegan is a self-described contrarian. He tells host Jeff Young that the 60-vote supermajority required to stop a filibuster is undemocratic and bad for the planet.