Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to Explain Like I'm Five@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agoHow does a Fillibuster actually work? Is it a person really talking until a certain time limit or something? Who sets the time? Is it like we see in the movies? How does a person endure that?message-squaremessage-square8fedilinkarrow-up110arrow-down11
arrow-up19arrow-down1message-squareHow does a Fillibuster actually work? Is it a person really talking until a certain time limit or something? Who sets the time? Is it like we see in the movies? How does a person endure that?Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to Explain Like I'm Five@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square8fedilink
minus-squareaaa999@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·3 months agoadditionally, yes people have just stalled by talking, prior to the period we dropped the requirement for them to do that. most famously https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strom_Thurmond_filibuster_of_the_Civil_Rights_Act_of_1957
additionally, yes people have just stalled by talking, prior to the period we dropped the requirement for them to do that. most famously
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strom_Thurmond_filibuster_of_the_Civil_Rights_Act_of_1957