Adele ferguson

IT MAY NOT be fashionable to say so these days, says the Wall Street Journal, but three cheers for the Senate filibuster.

“This week the 60-vote requirement (to halt a filibuster and advance a bill) will once again help kill a nasty bit of legislating known as the Paycheck Fairness Act.”

It did just that the other day, the final vote 52-47.

Our own U.S. Sen. Patty Murray is in the front row of Democrats attempting to equalize pay between men and women. It’s brought up periodically because trial lawyers want it, says the Journal, since it is a recipe for a class action boom.

There already is a...