Filibuster and Voting Rights

VOA News: Explainer: What is a Filibuster?

VOA Learning English: News Words: Filibuster

VOA News: Democrats Eye Major Rules Change for Debate on Voting Rights

CNN: MLK shares view on the filibuster in 60-year-old interview clip

In a video from a 1963 news conference, civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. expressed that he was against the use of the filibuster because he believed a "minority of misguided senators" would use it to keep people from voting.

Bloomberg Quicktake: MLK's Family Joins Voting Rights March in Arizona (2022)

In honor of Martin Luther King Day Jr., some of his family members spent the holiday weekend in Arizona mobilizing support for federal voting rights legislation

POP QUIZ

Filibuster:

USCIS 100:28. What is the name of the President of the United States now?*

USCIS 100:46. What is the political party of the President now?

USCIS 100:45. What are the two major political parties in the United States?*

USCIS 100:16. Who makes federal laws?

USCIS 100:17. What are the two parts of the U.S. Congress?*

USCIS 100:18. How many U.S. Senators are there?

USCIS 100:20. Who is one of your state’s U.S. Senators now?*

Voting Rights:

USCIS 100:48. There are four amendments to the Constitution about who can vote. Describe one of them.

USCIS 100:49. What is one responsibility that is only for United States citizens?*

USCIS 100:50. Name one right only for United States citizens.

USCIS 100:54. How old do citizens have to be to vote for President?*

USCIS 100:55. What are two ways that Americans can participate in their democracy?