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Frederick A.O. Schwarz, Jr. is Chief Counsel of the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law and previously served as Chief Counsel to the Church Committee (formerly known as the Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Activities with Respect to Intelligence Activities).
Debate about the Senate filibuster is a distracting, artificial controversy.
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