Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) on March 19 said she is “open” to changing the way the Senate filibuster rules are used amid growing pressure from far-left progressive groups for it to be scrapped. Feinstein, 87, the oldest senator, has long been one of the Senate’s staunchest supporters of the filibuster rule, which requires a threshold of 60 votes to pass major legislation. In a statement on Friday, Feinstein said she would be open to reforms if needed to pass bills on Democratic priorities such as gun control and violence against women, and noted that it could prove to be an effective solution to Republicans potentially “abusing” the rule by blocking the recent bills and other legislation that she had “tried for years to pass.” “There are many significant issues Congress needs to address. Just this week we saw a union of gun violence, violence against women, and hate crimes in the tragic shootings in Atlanta,” Feinstein wrote in a …