CNN New Day With John Berman and Brianna Keilar January 13, 2022 13:30:00
Conservative democrats like strom thurmond trying to block civil rights legislation, then you know that in its og form, the filibuster required a senator to take the floor and speak for hours. it was supposed to be a mechanism for protest by the minority. and let's look at the data. this is a graph showing cloture votes in the senate, needed to try to block a filibuster going back to 1917. for first 50 years or so, filibusters are very rare. they start creeping up during the civil rights era. in 1975, a rule change allowed senators to filibuster a bill from the comfort of their own office or h...
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