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Senate filibuster's racist past fuels arguments for its end
aol ^ | April 10, 2021 | LISA MASCARO

Posted on 04/10/2021 6:13:02 PM PDT by MarvinStinson

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“Harvard Law professor Michael Klarman said, “There’s nothing partisan about saying the filibuster has mostly been used for racist reasons, I think everybody would agree that that’s true,” he said.”

Mostly true except for the mostly and let it be added that in those instances cited it was Democrats being the racists.


21 posted on 04/10/2021 8:21:16 PM PDT by FreedomNotSafety
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The democrats are the party that used the filibuster to block most modern race equality legislation. Does the AP writing guide forbid mentioning this?


22 posted on 04/10/2021 8:55:21 PM PDT by pfflier
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To: FreedomNotSafety

Is Klarman talking about the Democrats filibustering the first version of the Civil Rights Act in the 1950s? Is that the racist filibustering he’s talking about?


23 posted on 04/10/2021 9:31:29 PM PDT by TigersEye (Will the Younger Dryas Impact you? )
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To: MarvinStinson; Pelham

Dovetails with south bashers logic on display here.....


24 posted on 04/10/2021 9:32:36 PM PDT by wardaddy (P IN 1999 JIM THOMPSON WAS RIGHT ABOUT THE BUSHES ...WE WERE WRONG lz’’z:s)
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To: MarvinStinson

Not even with your Johnson Marvin

Dog food ugly

Bounced on the tree on the way down...ugliee fruit

A three bagger

Skinny though give her that

Maybe if I was on quaaludes and Cointreau.....


25 posted on 04/10/2021 9:35:15 PM PDT by wardaddy (P IN 1999 JIM THOMPSON WAS RIGHT ABOUT THE BUSHES ...WE WERE WRONG lz’’z:s)
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To: Trump20162020

Yep. So the “racist” argument is invalid when they used the filibuster when the Republicans had the Congress.


26 posted on 04/10/2021 9:45:37 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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They want to get rid of the Constitution and the United States.

Yeah, it's a real pain in the ass for them.

27 posted on 04/11/2021 9:44:23 AM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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