Jonathan Chait on Sen. Sinema's history of filibuster: 'None of that is true'
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Jonathan Chait, a columnist for New York Magazine, tells Lawrence O'Donnell that Senator Kyrsten Sinema is wrong when she argues that the filibuster was created by the Founding Fathers. Chait says, "The filibuster emerged by accident. It was a rules glitch … no one created it for any reason.”June 4, 2021
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