PHOENIX (KVOA) – Ten people were arrested Tuesday morning over a planned protest at Senator Kyrsten Sinema’s Phoenix office for their stance on filibuster removal. Over the past few months, several Democratic lawmakers have been working to end or redesign the filibuster, a rule in the Senate that requires a super majority of 60 votes to end the legislative debate and take a vote. At the beginning of the push, Arizona’s first Democratic US Senator in 30 years made her stance on the filibuster clear, saying that she “has long been a supporter of the filibuster because it’s a tool that protects our nation’s democracy”. Sinema continued to defend the bill, posting a comment in the Washington Post on Monday supporting the filibuster. This was made public the day before the GOP filibusted the Senate from voting on a voting law. In response, a demonstration was organized at their office in the 3300 E. Camelback Road area at 9:45 am on Tuesday. After the Phoenix police received a phone call that the group was allegedly “disrupting normal business operations,” the officers ordered the demonstration organizer to leave the private compound. While the organizer was working with law enforcement agencies, a group of 10 people refused to leave the premises. After the group ignored the officials’ requests, the protesters were arrested after 11 a.m. without incident. Police said the 10 people arrested were “given summons instead of detention”.
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