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In an online Tele Town Hall" on Monday Jan 24, co-leaders of the Transformative Justice Coalition Barbara Arnwine Esq and Daryl Jones Esq, will host a line up of powerful guests looking at how to protect voting rights and ensure fair elections
Thus have Democrats, being Democrats, made this about so much more than hypocrisy. They have somehow managed to infuse a racial component into this long-standing and pedestrian parliamentary tactic, and converted the routine side-switching each party has done for years based on whether they are in the majority or the minority into some overarching test of moral character. Under the rubric Democrats have now created, using a filibuster is not merely an unfair and obstructionist weapon used by the minority the standard claim invoked by each party whenever they are in the majority and their will is thwarted by it but instead it has now become proof that whoever uses it is a racist.