News

The fate of the Senate filibuster will decide the future of the Biden presidency. Today, we dive deep into the filibuster’s origins and myths — and we talk to people who say that killing this ...
PostEverything Elizabeth Warren’s historically sound case against the filibuster. The Senate rule has long been used as a weapon against civil rights and other progressive legislation.
Examining the Case Against the Filibuster. In a new book, Adam Jentleson blames government failures on more than a century of Southern obstruction in the Senate. By Benjamin Wallace-Wells.
Case Will Test Constitutionality Of The Filibuster The non-partisan advocacy group Common Cause has filed a law suit with the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., to get the Senate's use of ...
The filibuster has faced challenges before, but courts have generally thrown them out because the individuals or groups bringing the cases did not have the legal standing to do so.
By skirting the Senate parliamentarian’s power to police the boundaries of reconciliation bills, the GOP is putting the ...
What is the filibuster? ... This view is buttressed by the grant of a vote to the Vice President (Article I, section 3) in those cases where the Senators are 'equally divided,'" he said.
Although the word "filibuster" was not uttered during the oral arguments on the Arizona cases, Senate Democrats will have little choice but to take heed of Carvin's remarks and marshal the courage ...
Three months after Sen. Cory Booker broke his chamber's record for the longest speech ever, Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries ...
But Justin Buchler, a political science professor at Case Western Reserve University, said it would be "monumentally stupid" for Democrats to kill the filibuster now because of how Republicans ...
Democratic Sen. Cory Booker broke the record this week for the longest speech ever made on the Senate floor, but it wasn't a filibuster. Here's why.
The case for why institutional norms like the Senate filibuster and limiting the Supreme Court to nine justices are positive for American politics is now in front of the Democrats.. Trump has made ...