The filibuster is a procedural, not constitutional, requirement and can be changed. It’s been on the Senate books since 1917, ...

BOARD BATTLE? Gov. Kevin Stitt replaced three state Board of Education members, drawing ire from Ryan Walters. STRONG WORDS ...

Last month, Senate Democrats used the filibuster to block sanctions on the International Criminal Court, in response to the ...

Democrats have fallen back in love with the filibuster. Mere weeks into President Trump’s second term, Senate Democrats are already making liberal use of the obstructive maneuver, flying in the ...

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Wendy Davis, a Fort Worth Democrat, took to the Senate floor and started what she hoped would be a 13-hour filibuster of the ... p.m.: President Obama tweets his support: 10:07 p.m.: Dewhurst ...

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The executive orders (EOs) and policy memoranda President Donald Trump issued thus far advance his goal of making America ...

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2015—Never mind Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s repeated explanation at her confirmation hearing in 1993 that the judicial obligation of impartiality required that she give “no hints, no forecasts, no ...