If, on the other hand, the objective of filibustering or the threat of filibustering is to give the majority an incentive to take better account of policy interests and preferences that it might if the majority were left solely to its own devices, then I think filibustering becomes much easier for me to justify.
Schumer defends filibustering as a means to encourage majority accountability.
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