A growing number of House and Senate Democrats are calling on the new Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) to reject Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-Ky.) request to respect the decades-old filibuster rule, which protects the Senate from partisan control of the majority. “Minority rights on legislation are key to the Senate. President [Joe] Biden spent decades defending them. More than two dozen Senate Democrats backed them just four years ago,” McConnell wrote in a Twitter post on Thursday. He added, “This isn’t complicated. Simply reaffirming that Democrats won’t break the rules should not be a heavy lift.” Politico heard from some Democratic senators including Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.) and Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) who want Schumer to eliminate the filibuster. “Chuck Schumer is the majority leader and he should be treated like majority leader. We can get [expletive] done around here and we ought to be focused on getting …