“The filibuster was never an idea of the founding fathers.”
What PolitiFact found
The founders never wrote into the Constitution a filibuster of the type that has since been practiced by the Senate, and their contemporaneous writings suggest views that ranged from ambivalent to negative.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Chuck Todd (Host of NBC's "Meet the Press") made this claim around 7 March 2021. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 8 March 2021, 1 day later. Its rating was “True”.
Chuck Todd has 4 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 1 of them false or fake, 1 misleading or mixed and 1 true.
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