'The Senate MUST end the filibuster and pass voting rights legislation,' said Rep. AOC. 'Our democracy depends on it.'
"During the period from 1969 to 2014," the group said,"filibuster rules were bypassed 161 times when specific measures were allowed to pass the Senate by majority vote."last year that the filibuster is nowhere to be found in the U.S. Constitution, Democracy 21 noted that then-Vice President Aaron Burr created the rule"by mistake in 1806," after which it was—and continues to be—used for nefarious purposes.
In 1891, as the timeline shows,"a week-long Senate filibuster kill[ed] a House-passed election reform bill, crafted to protect the right of eligible Black men to vote by overriding poll tax laws and other state voter suppression laws being enacted in southern states." As Democracy 21 noted, South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond conducted a record 24-hour, 18-minute filibuster of the Civil Rights Act of 1957. Although the legislation ultimately passed, it was"significantly modified and [its] basic provisions... removed" in order to garner the 67 votes then needed to end a filibuster.
"Keep in mind," Binder added,"the 20th century filibuster [also] scorched many civil rights measures beyond those that it killed outright."the Center for American Progress,"with 'inflated rhetoric about an alleged Senate tradition of respecting minority rights and the value of extended debate on issues of great importance.
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