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Senator Charles Schumer at a rally, June 21, 2017
On January 25, the organization Just Democracy mounted a billboard in Times Square urging Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) to “reckon with the filibusterâs racist history and abolish the Senate loophole once and for all.” The billboard ran through Sunday, January 31, “to remind the 117th Congress that Black and Brown voters will not sit back while the filibuster blocks critical social justice and civil rights bills.”
Just Democracy’s Time square billboard, Jan. 25, 2021. /Â Screenshot from Just Democracy’s website
Just Democracy says it is a coalition of more than 30 grassroots civil rights and social justice groups from around the country calling for “bold structural change to ensure our democracy works for all Americans.” This is why “when weâre fighting to eliminate the filibuster, weâre fighting for environmental justice. When weâre advocating to add seats to the Supreme Court,
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (right) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell
A constellation of progressive groups is making the first big fight of Joe Biden’s presidency about Senate procedure, with progressives convinced they cannot get their priorities made into law unless Democrats fundamentally change how the Senate passes legislation.
The groups, many of which opposed Biden in the 2020 primary, are pushing to frame the Senate filibuster as a tool of racism and oppression, tying the procedural mechanism that makes it impossible to pass most legislation without 60 votes to its historic use in blocking anti-lynching and civil rights bills in the 1950s. And they’re already showing how willing they are to use that message against Democrats who aren’t already on board.