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The Filibuster

By: Isabel King

The filibuster is a legislative tactic, which to many is a very important tactic in the possess of making a law, one that has significant historical and present significance in allowing groups to gatekeep minorities, that is viewed by many in a petty way of getting a law to not be passed.

What is the filibuster?

What is it used for?

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).

Racial Significance

The way of unlimited debate - including but not limited to the phone book, the Bible, and cooking recipes(Desjardins, 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).

Created in the past, present consequences.

While it was created in the very beginning of Americas government, it is still very much alive.

Is it still around?

"“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).

Civil rights block in 2021?

“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).

Is the filibuster constitutional?

Simply put? Not at all. Like stated before, its most notable use is blocking a civil rights act.

  • Less than three months apart, two voting and civil rights acts have been blocked.
  • It has been called a replica of Jim Crow.

Thought? Opinions?

Sources

Works cited

Berry, Sonceria. “U.S. Senate: About Filibusters and Cloture.” United States Senate, 24 Mar. 2021, www.senate.gov/about/powers-procedures/filibusters-cloture.htm.

---. “U.S. Senate: About Filibusters and Cloture | Historical Overview.” United States Senate, 3 June 2021, www.senate.gov/about/powers-procedures/filibusters-cloture/overview.htm.

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.

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