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    Jackie Calmes: The filibuster has an awful history. And it's become worse

    by Jackie Calmes, Los Angeles Times Jan 15, 2022 3 minutes

    When President Joe Biden recalled his old friend Sen. Strom Thurmond and the former segregationist's record-setting filibuster against the 1957 Civil Rights Act, my mind flashed back to 1987, when Thurmond, who died in 2003 at 100, schooled me about his feat.

    The South Carolina Democrat-turned-Republican by the 1980s had retreated from his racist views and, as Biden said in Atlanta on Tuesday, " Strom Thurmond" supported voting rights bills. Yet Thurmond remained proud of his record for the longest filibuster ever by a lone senator — 24 hours, 18 minutes of standing,

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