Senator Byrd makes much of minority rights in his defence of filibustering judges. He likens the Republican threat of limiting confirmation debates, requiring only 51 votes instead of 60, to Hitler's emasculation of the Reichstag. Odd, as I don't think they filibustered Hitler much.
It is hypocritical of Byrd, who once filibustered the Civil Rights Act of 1964, to invoke "minority rights." People like him kept Jim Crow running for nearly a century. I wonder what his opinion of Hitler was in 1936 anyway. He would have been 18 and donning his first hooded sheet.