{"id":9517,"date":"2021-01-17T15:41:40","date_gmt":"2021-01-17T15:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/?p=151093"},"modified":"2021-01-17T15:41:40","modified_gmt":"2021-01-17T15:41:40","slug":"a-jim-crow-relic-that-must-be-abolished-demand-to-end-filibuster-grows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/17\/a-jim-crow-relic-that-must-be-abolished-demand-to-end-filibuster-grows\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;A Jim Crow Relic That Must Be Abolished&#8217;: Demand to End Filibuster Grows"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"field field--name-field-hp-author field--type-text field--label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field__items\">\n<div class=\"field__item even\">Jon Queally, staff writer<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"field-wrapper content-container clearfix\" id=\"field-wrapper-content\">\n<div class=\"field field--name-field-subtitle field--type-text-long field--label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field__items\">\n<div class=\"field__item even\">\n<div>&#8220;Do Senate Democrats want to keep the filibuster or do they want to pass comprehensive democracy, anti-corruption, and voting rights legislation to realize the promise of a multi-racial democracy?&#8221; said one progressive organizer. &#8220;I don&#8217;t see a way they can do both.&#8221;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"field field--name-field-image field--type-image field--label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field__items\">\n<div class=\"field__item even\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/cd_special_coverage\/public\/headline\/thumbs\/schumer_filibuster.jpg?itok=JLJzbvwF\" width=\"420\" height=\"220\" alt=\"Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) (R) stands with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) (L) as they attend the Electoral College vote certification for President-elect Joe Biden, during a joint session of Congress at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Photo: Kevin Dietsch-Pool\/Getty Images)\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/2021\/01\/17\/a-jim-crow-relic-that-must-be-abolished-demand-to-end-filibuster-grows\/\">Radio Free<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jon Queally, staff writer \u201cDo Senate Democrats want to keep the filibuster or do they want to pass comprehensive democracy, anti-corruption, and voting rights legislation to realize the\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9517"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9517"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9518,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9517\/revisions\/9518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}