On May 15, 1987, Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd (D) delivered a speech to the U.S. Senate posing the rhetorical question, “Has there ever been a better movie about the Senate than Frank Capra’s 1939 classic ‘Mr. Smith Goes to Washington’?”
Democracy Dies in Darkness
‘Mr. Smith Goes to Washington’ still shapes the filibuster debate. That’s a problem.
The movie lionizes a pernicious tactic.
Perspective by Landon Palmer
January 27, 2022 at 10:19 p.m. EST