When former President Barack Obama eulogized Rep. John Lewis, he made an impassioned plea for a litany of voting rights measures, such as enacting automatic voter registration, ending partisan gerrymandering, and establishing statehood for Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico. And he added, “If all this takes eliminating the filibuster — another Jim Crow relic — in order to secure the God-given rights of every American, then that’s what we should do.”
These proposals are meant to strengthen our democracy, but to achieve them by eliminating the legislative filibuster would destroy it.
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