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Daily Mail UK
By EMILY GOODIN, SENIOR U.S. POLITICAL REPORTER
PUBLISHED: | UPDATED:
Barack Obama joined the campaign to pressure Democratic senators into supporting voting rights legislation, backing Joe Biden‘s demand to kill the filibuster, calling it a tool to ‘prop up Jim Crown.’
The former president, in an op-ed published in USA Today, writes the Senatefilibuster ‘has no basis in the Constitution’ and arguing it was used by Southern senators to block civil rights legislation that disinfranchised black voters.
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