 March 26, 2021  Let's be clear: Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., says a lot of things, many of them not exactly on the level. But earlier this week, he took that to a new level when discussing the filibuster, the tool that currently lets a minority of senators block almost any legislation in the Senate. McConnell told reporters with a straight face that Democrats were wrong and that the filibuster "has no racial history at all. None. There's no dispute among historians about that." Keisha Blain would beg to differ in her debut essay with MSNBC Daily.
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