For nearly a month, the U.S. Senate has done nothing but filibuster about ending filibusters. Last week it came to an end—with an easily predictable result. On the key vote in the dispute about ...
Arizona’s Kyrsten Sinema predicted that one day Democrats would be grateful she preserved the filibuster. That day is now.
It is reopening old wounds they had hoped to move past, too. After an ultimately unsuccessful effort to eliminate the filibuster during former President Joe Biden’s term roiled Democrats ...
But Democrats should not abolish the filibuster. It would harm their own political and policy interests. In the last 100 years ... served their interests in the long run. Democrats won filibuster ...
“The tactic of using long speeches to delay action on legislation appeared in the very first session of the Senate,” the ...