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We've had the filibuster fro 150 years, nimrod.Senate Republicans on Tuesday blocked the most ambitious voting rights legislation to come before Congress in a generation, using the filibuster to deal a blow to a bid by President Biden and Democrats to counter a wave of state-level ballot restrictions and fueling a political battle that promises to shape the 2022 elections.
Politics Updates: Republicans Use Filibuster to Block Voting Rights Bill (Published 2021)
The move in the Senate dealt a blow to Democrats’ efforts to counter a wave of ballot restrictions in Republican-led states.www.nytimes.com
“In all cases where justice or the general good might require new laws to be passed, or active measures to be pursued, the fundamental principle of free government would be reversed. It would be no longer the majority that would rule: the power would be transferred to the minority. Were the defensive privilege limited to particular cases, an interested minority might take advantage of it to screen themselves from equitable sacrifices to the general weal, or, in particular emergencies, to extort unreasonable indulgences.”
James Madision on the filibuster, Federalist 58