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The Constitution1
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The Constitution "NEVER" explicitly or implicitly refers to the often-abused delaying tactic that plunders the time and focus of legislative bodies, referred to as "the filibuster." Constitutionally, "the filibuster" is an ad hoc "TRADITION," a consequence of the constitutionally granted authority of each house of Congress to implement legislative protocol.
In times past, when dignity, honor, and intelligence were the mainstay of legislative process, deference was shown to the opinions of "least of the assembly." Today, bereft of these constraining attributes, "TRADITION" without constitutional mandate, e.g., "the filibuster," MUST be eradicated!
Two thousand years ago there was a "Constitutional" crisis regarding the "Law of Mosses," a political and religious expediency of contemporary and earlier centuries had compiled an "augmented and unwritten" Oral Law of "TRADITION," preferable to the "Law of Mosses" (the "Torah that is written").
Obviously, not an originalist or textualist among them! Well, the 'expedient' ones keep their Oral Tradition and their "nation" for but thirty more years!
Consider Jesus' warning regarding the "tradition of men."
"In vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men... laying aside the commandment of God, you hold the tradition of men... Full well you reject the commandment of God, that you may keep your own tradition... Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition" (cf. Mark 7:7-13).
Trump would do well to eradicate "tradition" unfounded in the Constitution, e.g., "the filibuster."
By Constitutional Convention - U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=15795309
