Past Comments Come Back to Bite Hakeem Jeffries After Record-Setting ‘Filibuster’

I’m personally happy that the filibuster has never been introduced in the House of Representatives. Not because of the fact that I’m a legislative traditionalist, mind you. It’s just that I don’t like to see House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries have to eat his words on a weekly basis.

Those of you tuning into C-SPAN Thursday probably saw a lot of Jeffries, a New York representative who began leading the Democratic caucus in 2023. In fact, his nearly nine hours of speaking in opposition...