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 institutionalized racism that was baked into our institutions. And so this idea that it was like this high minded, intentional mechanism is just a fairy tale. (46:01–46:13)
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