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Hayes Brown @HayesBrown

Then, Merkely explains, the filibuster of a civil rights act in the 1890s was used to block a civil rights bill and every filibuster save one until 1965 was about denying Black Americans equal rights. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Jan. 20, 2022

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Merkley explains that even in 1875 the Senate code, which says “after all views are heard, you can have a simple majority vote,” held and allowed for a majority vote to help end discrimination in the South — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Jan. 20, 2022

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Then in 1971, the filibuster’s use began to rise to like six times a year and it was outrageous, since each filibuster took a week, and then the rules change in 1975 — and whoops, it blew up in everyone’s faces. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Jan. 20, 2022