'The filibuster is a meaningless Senate rule. It's a remnant of slavery used to block civil rights for generations.'
"The filibuster is a meaningless Senate rule. It's a remnant of slavery used to block civil rights for generations."On what would have been Martin Luther King Jr.
"The filibuster is a meaningless Senate rule," he added."It's a remnant of slavery used to block civil rights for generations."Freedom to Vote: John R. Lewis Act If the Senate GOP filibusters, Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is expected to try to alter the chamber's 60-vote threshold—an effort that is also doomed to fail unless Sinema and Sen. Joe Manchin drop their support for the rule.
"I want the Senate to pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Act, and the only way that will happen is if we carve out the filibuster," Tessa Williams, an Arizonan who attended Saturday's demonstrations in Phoenix,."It's critical to protect the right to vote. It's under threat right now, and I think it's much more important that Senator Sinema gets behind this legislation than hold on to the filibuster.
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