PBS has announced CIVICS MADE EASY, a new twelve-part series with host and bestselling author Ben Sheehan, premiering ...

The reason why Booker’s speech wasn’t technically a filibuster is because, while it exercised his right to unlimited debate, it was not an effort to delay a specific piece of legislation.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) speaks with reporters as she arrived for a vote at the U.S. Capitol last week. (Francis Chung/POLITICO via AP Images) “The same Dems who argue to keep the ...

“The same Dems who argue to keep the filibuster ‘for when we need it’ do not, in fact, use it when we need it,” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) posted to X on Saturday.

They favor the filibuster when it’s convenient for them, and they try to abolish it when it stands in the way of their far-left agenda,” Senate Majority Leader John Thune told The Post.

Modifying the filibuster takes only a simple majority, making it an easy target in the past for senators to erode its power. Debate could be cut off under original Senate rules with a simple ...

The filibuster is not a constitutionally codified practice; in fact, it was born of an absence. While the House of Representatives has standing rules for how long a member can speak, the Senate ...

It’s easy to understand why abolishing the filibuster is so tempting today in our age of gridlock, when the losing side seems so determined to stop the winner from succeeding.

Whether the Founders invented it or not, some features of our Republic are essential to a democracy that is fair for the minority as well as the majority. The senate filibuster is one of them (also ...

Hogan should back this filibuster reform. Fighting for a considered middle ground might not only help him get to the Senate, but also to achieve real results for Marylanders once he’s there ...

Last week's overturning of Roe v. Wade (1973) by the U.S. Supreme Court was made possible, at least in some small ways, by what then-Senate Majority ...

The filibuster now has three paths forward—and all of them end, one way or another, in its demise. The first and most obvious possibility is that Democrats will one day win a Senate majority ...