A new trend on the left: Calling the Senate’s 60-vote threshold the “Jim Crow filibuster.”
A new trend on the left: Calling the Senate’s 60-vote threshold the “Jim Crow filibuster.”
A new trend on the left: Calling the Senate’s 60-vote threshold the “Jim Crow filibuster.”
A new trend on the left: Calling the Senate’s 60-vote threshold the “Jim Crow filibuster.”
A new trend on the left: Calling the Senate’s 60-vote threshold the “Jim Crow filibuster.”
(The filibuster was once used rarely and gained national prominence due to southern segregationists who wielded it to block civil rights bills for years.)
This traces back to something @BarackObama — under whom the filibuster became normalized for legislation — said last summer in his eulogy for John Lewis. https://twitter.com/sahilkapur/status/1288904198529130496
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