Fillibuster...Jim Crow in a suit?
In an effort to thwart the Biden agenda Slick Mitch threatened the dems with retaliation if they got rid of the filibuster rule in the senate.
Mitch McConnell darkly threatens 'scorched earth Senate' if Democrats eliminate the filibuster (yahoo.com)
Of course we know the dems can never pass anything without at least 10 repubs to meet the 60 vote threshold and we when we all know it's aimed at all know Mitch won't allow that to happen. Obama found that out the hard way. At stake here is the (Yet another) John Lewis Civil Rights Bill, and HR 1. Both of which are DOA in a divided senate amid red states voter suppression laws, thus the invocation of Jim Crow.
Truly fascinating repubs still holler voter fraud and make new laws to supposedly stop what they cannot prove when we all know it's all about the ever growing minority vote turnout.
PolitiFact | The history of the filibuster as 'Jim Crow relic'
Quote:
• The filibuster’s emergence had nothing to do with racial legislation, and it has been used against a wide variety of bills. However, historians agree that the filibuster was closely intertwined with anti-civil-rights efforts in the Senate for more than a century, thanks to repeated efforts by southern senators to filibuster civil rights bills.