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- Title
The Filibuster is Busted, Time to Scrap It.
- Authors
ABELE, ROBERT P.
- Abstract
JANUARY 28, 2022 If you're under the impression that the filibuster is an important tool in the toolbox of American democracy, you've been misled. The filibuster is a made-up Senate convention that lets a minority of senators block votes on bills that have majority support. Years later, South Carolina senator Strom Thurmond famously filibustered for over 24 hours straight, the longest individual filibuster ever, to try and tank the Civil Rights Act of 1957.
- Subjects
FILIBUSTERS (Political science); ELECTION security measures; UNITED States Capitol Insurrection, 2021; VOTING Rights Act of 1965 (U.S.)
- Publication
CounterPunch, 2022, p1
- ISSN
1086-2323
- Publication type
Article