Tim Kaine on balloting rights and the Senate legacy of segregationists Harry Byrd Sr. and Jr.

Right here he was once, in a seat as soon as held by way of notorious segregationist Harry F. Byrd Sr., who had used the filibuster to oppose balloting rights law, and now Kaine (D-Va.) was once advocating converting the filibuster to go balloting rights law. In the meantime, he famous, he couldn’t discover a Republican best friend at the invoice — together with his buddy Sen. John Cornyn (R-Tex.), who held a seat as soon as occupied by way of Lyndon B. Johnson, who championed the Civil Rights Act and signed it as president.