Crooks and Liars has posted a clip of a video from 1968 with Walter Conkite about a Republican Senator using the filibuster on President Johnson’s Supreme Court nominee. The Senate has claimed that the use of the filibuster by Democrats to stop judicial nominees is unprecedented. Clearly we see that the filibuster has been in use for a very long time and has served as a weapon for both parties.

Read more and view the video clip at Crooks and Liars.
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