Joe Scarborough

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Joe Scarborough @JoeNBC

“Only because it was reserved for bills protecting black people did the majority tolerate its periodic use. The filibuster was a product of an implicit understanding that the white North would grant the white South a veto on matters of white supremacy.” — PolitiTweet.org

Posted March 23, 2021

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By custom, it was used rarely and almost always for the purpose of blocking civil-rights bills. This is not merely coincidental. A routine supermajority requirement would have been completely intolerable. https://t.co/X7wILWgfFP — PolitiTweet.org

Posted March 23, 2021

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“Opponents of even the most massive pieces of New Deal and Great Society legislation did not dare use the filibuster to thwart them. That was the norm.” — PolitiTweet.org

Posted March 23, 2021