Jentleson is knowledgeable and adept, offering an account of increasingly flagrant obstruction that culminates in the age of McConnell. Michael Tomasky – New York Review of Books Every senator should be forced to read it and then reread it. Jentleson’s explanation of the filibuster’s ignominious roots, and of the mendacious arguments made today by its defenders, is careful and thorough and exacting. Praise For Kill Switch: The Rise Of The Modern Senate And The Crippling Of American DemocracyĪdam Jentleson’s Kill Switch is the most exquisitely timed book I’ve encountered in years. His new book Kill Switch: The Rise of the Modern Senate and the Crippling of American Democracy is now available. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Politico Magazine.

Adam served as Deputy Chief of Staff to Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid, where he advised on strategy and led one of the largest and most diverse communications teams on Capitol Hill during the Obama administration. To discuss the filibuster and efforts to do away with it, we invited Adam Jentleson on to the show. The filibuster, an accident of the senate rules, is holding the chamber hostage, turning a majority-rule body into an arena of obstructionism. Critical legislation on issues ranging from racial justice, the Equal Rights Amendment, gun violence prevention, economic justice, LGBTQIA rights, and so much more are at risk of dying in the senate because of the tyranny of the minority.

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