“The Senate filibuster is a "Jim Crow relic.”
What PolitiFact found
The filibuster did not emerge from debates over slavery or segregation. However, historians agree that the parliamentary tactic was closely affiliated with opposition to civil rights for more than a century.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Barack Obama (former president) made this claim around 30 July 2020. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 4 August 2020, 5 days later. Its rating was “Link goes back before Civil War”.
Barack Obama has 5 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 0 of them false or fake, 3 misleading or mixed and 1 true.
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