John Yoo interviewed by WSJ Opinion Journal, April 6, 2017
“There was no filibuster in the original Constitution. There was no filibuster until 1837. So for the most basic and important questions of our country’s early history, there’d been no filibuster. … What the filibuster had become was a way to shut off debate, to prevent the Senate from taking our important issues of the day and moving forward to address them.”