>> Well, this will certainly be alright with me, because I think the vast majority of people
in the United States would vote favorably for such a bill.
>> Dr. Martin Luther King way back in 1963. >> I think the tragedy is that we
have a congress with a Senate, that has a minority of misguided senators who will use the filibuster
to keep the majority of people from even voting.
>> Talking about the filibuster, yes, the filibuster.
>> They won't let the majority of senators vote, and certainly they wouldn't want the majority
of people to vote because they know they do not represent, the majority of the American people,
in fact they represent in their own states. A very small minority.
>> Remember Dr. King's, I have a Dream speech. I mean,
who couldn't write. King proclaim part of his world renowned speech
was to protest the filibuster. >> I think there will be I'm sure filibuster and
we will definitely protest this. We will lobby in Washington seeking to get congressmen, senators to
stand up in a very firm forthright manner with a determination to see this bill through.
We plan to have a march on Washington on the 28th of August at which time. We will take a stand
letting the nation and the world know that we are determined to see civil rights legislation.
>> And yet, even as the death of George Floyd led to a seismic shift in understanding
the plight our fellow Americans go through for being not white in this country.
The attention these athletes put on civil rights. 58 years after King made his remarks
the filibuster is still intact. >> There was so much hope, so much
optimism after the March on Washington. >> And the John Lewis Voting Rights Act
still unsigned, which makes the stances of two Democrat senators puzzling.
Arizona Senator, Kyrsten Sinema and West Virginia's Joe Manchin.
Are in direct opposition to ending the filibuster and securing voting rights throughout the country.
As the great researcher resist programming found, they talk a big game and pretend to
give a damn about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's legacy by tweeting I've said legacy,
yet here they are, as resist puts it upholding the filibuster used to block voting rights.
Senator Joe Manchus said he does not support the For the People Act on Sunday. The bill known as
H.R. 1 and S.1, calls for sweeping election reform, including restrictions to partisan
gerrymandering in congressional districts, greater transparency and campaign financing,
and an expansion of early and absentee voting. Ari Berman and Mother Jones gave us the insight.
Mansion is fueled by dark money group heritage action for America,
led by director Jessica Anderson scene here, she bragged in a leaked video presentation
of her influence with Republican lawmakers and how they actually draft legislation for these
politicians to pass, to restrict voting rights on her own accord.
She brought up Brian Kemp in the state of Georgia which included eight key provisions.
She and her group put in the bill with heritages help, Anderson said
Georgia became the example for the rest of the country. Hans van Spakovsky seen here,
is another major player at heritage, he's a former Bush admin official
who was one goal restrict access to the ballot, Mother Jones reported heritage organized a rally
to get in with mansion and tell him to oppose the bill stand up for West Virginia values.
Heritage action announced it would run ads this summer pressuring democratic senators
West Virginia, Arizona, Montana and New Hampshire to preserve the filibuster in order to block HR
1. Then of course there's Kiersten cinema. >> As folks in Arizona now I've long been
a supporter of the filibuster because, it is a tool that protects the democracy of our nation,
rather than allowing our country to ricochet wildly every two to four years back and forth
between policy, so to those who say we must make a choice between the filibuster and x.
I say this is a false choice. The reality is that, when you have a
system that's not working effectively, the way to fix that is to change your behavior.
>> No behavior is being changed by the filibuster, zero zip Nada. Because there's absolutely no
incentive for change. In fact, that's one of the five biggest myths about the filibuster.
They keeps getting pushed by cinema mansion and code.
>> Nada Hassan lays it out well on his show. The fact remains, these two support
Democrat senators are nothing short of shills for dark money and stand in direct opposition
to voting rights prospering from the mouth of Martin Luther King, Jr. to present day.
As the Los Angeles Times put it, the biggest obstacle here isn't
Mitch McConnell. It's two Dems, Manchin and Sinema. As op-ed columnist, Virginia
Heffernan points out Manchin position as a red state Dem is precarious but Sinema
has no such worry. Arizona voted for Joe Biden and elected another Dem to the Senate in 2020.
And she is actually a co-sponsor of one of the bills facing obstruction
by the filibuster. In other words, Sinema has put herself in a position to extend
the life of American democracy, and she is simply declining to do so.