Now Barack Obama backs Biden's bid to
kill Senate filibuster: Calls it a tool
to 'prop up Jim Crow' and says it cannot
be allowed 'to be used to block efforts
to protect our democracy'
Posted By: Imright, 1/13/2022 8:12:03 AM
Barack Obama joined the campaign to pressure Democratic senators into supporting voting rights legislation, backing Joe Biden's demand to kill the filibuster, calling it a tool to 'prop up Jim Crown.'The former president, in an op-ed published in USA Today, writes the Senate filibuster 'has no basis in the Constitution' and arguing it was used by Southern senators to block civil rights legislation that disinfranchised black voters.'I fully support President Joe Biden's call to modify Senate rules as necessary to make sure pending voting rights legislation gets called for a vote,' Obama wrote.
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