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    Clarence Page: Sorry, Mr. Smith, but I, too, have turned against the filibuster

    by Clarence Page, Tribune Content Agency Mar 26, 2021 3 minutes

    At his first official White House news conference Thursday, President Joe Biden said he agreed with former President Barack Obama that the filibuster is “a relic of the Jim Crow era.” I disagree. How can you have a “relic” of something that’s still going on?

    The facts also disagree with Kentucky Republican and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, who took my breath away Tuesday when he said the filibuster “has no racial history at all. None. There’s no

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