The filibuster in the Senate was created by a clerical error from trying to copy the House rules into the Senate rules, and it was done incorrectly. And Jim Crow segregationists realized that they could use this clerical error as a loophole. to try to delay the enfranchisement of black Americans for decades. The origin of the filibuster is part of the legal institutions, or rather the institutionalized racism that was baked into our institutions. (45:45–45:54)
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Asserts that segregationists exploited the filibuster to delay civil rights.
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