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As with most government history, the filibusters track record is not golden.
"former President Barack Obama called the filibuster a “Jim Crow relic,” arguing that the procedure should be eliminated if it is used to block voting reforms” (Lau, 2021).
According to the United States Senate, the filibuster is “The Senate tradition of unlimited debate” to prevent a vote on a law, amendment, or general debate on a topic.
First aperence was September 1789, the first meeting of legislation in American history(United States Senate).
Senator Strom Thurmond - over 24 hour filibuster against a civil rights act in the 1957(Desjardins, 2021).
While it was created in the very beginning of Americas government, it is still very much alive.
"“Don’t lecture me about Jim Crow,” Mr. Booker said, his voice rising. “I know this is not 1965. And that’s what makes me so outraged. It is 2022 and they are blatantly removing more polling places from the counties where Blacks and Latinos are overrepresented”"
(Hulse, 2022).
“Republicans on Tuesday blocked the most ambitious voting rights legislation to come before Congress in a generation… Democrats’ best remaining hope to enact legal changes rests on a long-shot bid to eliminate the legislative filibuster, which Republicans used on Tuesday to block the measure, called the For the People Act”(Corasaniti, 2021).
Simply put? Not at all. Like stated before, its most notable use is blocking a civil rights act.
Berry, Sonceria. “U.S. Senate: About Filibusters and Cloture.” United States Senate, 24 Mar. 2021, www.senate.gov/about/powers-procedures/filibusters-cloture.htm.
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Lau, Tim. “The Filibuster, Explained.” Brennan Center for Justice, 15 Feb. 2022, www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/filibuster-explained.
Desjardins, Lisa. “How Does the Filibuster Work?” PBS NewsHour, 28 Jan. 2021, www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/how-does-the-filibuster-work.
Fandos, Nicholas. “Republicans Use Filibuster to Block Voting Rights Bill.” The New York Times, 22 Oct. 2021, www.nytimes.com/live/2021/06/22/us/joe-biden-news.
Wikipedia contributors. “For the People Act.” Wikipedia, 23 Jan. 2022, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_the_People_Act.
Hulse, Carl. “Voting Rights Bill Is Blocked in the Senate.” The New York Times, 28 Jan. 2022, www.nytimes.com/2022/01/19/us/politics/senate-voting-rights-filibuster.html.
“The 5 Longest Senate Filibusters in US History.” ThoughtCo, 4 Nov. 2020, www.thoughtco.com/longest-filibusters-in-us-history-3322332.
Horsey, David. “End Filibuster Tomfoolery.” The Seattle Times, 30 Sept. 2021, www.seattletimes.com/opinion/end-filibuster-toomfoolery.
Common Cause. “For the People Act (HR1) - Common Cause | Join the Movement.” Common Cause, 22 Sept. 2021, www.commoncause.org/our-work/constitution-courts-and-democracy-issues/for-the-people-act.