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While Senate Republicans refuse to consider President Obama\u2019s Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland, the History Guys review the history of gridlock in American politics. In this episode, Peter, Ed and Brian will look at other moments when our system of checks and balances devolved into open warfare between political factions. They\u2019ll discuss how the Missouri Compromise failed to resolve the political battle over the expansion of slavery. They\u2019ll also look at the war within the Democratic party over Prohibition in the l920\u2019s, and how Southern Democrats used the filibuster to block civil rights bills in the l950\u2019s and 60\u2019s. \n
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