Neal Katyal Blows Up His Career as a Supreme Court Advocate This Is What It Looks Like When a Great Power Is Losing a War Trump Admin Appealing Trade Court’s Invalidation of Section 122 Tariffs The ...

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi joined U.S. Rep. Lloyd Dogget, D-Austin, in Austin March 22, and admitted that with the filibuster she sees no hope for the Senate passing abortion protections Credit ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: A version of this story was first published in 2021, when Democrats were trying to end the filibuster. It was completely predictable that President Donald Trump would call on Senate ...

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Seemingly frustrated by the government shutdown and Democrats' unwillingness to accept a Republican funding bill, President Donald Trump is once again demanding that the Senate eliminate the ...

Whenever the gavel switches from the hands of one party to the other in the Senate, lawmakers engage in a public round of debate about a long-established political tradition — the filibuster. With the ...

When Democratic President Joe Biden took office in January 2021 and the Republican leadership of the Senate — no longer representing a majority of the chamber — still capable of following through on ...

Ben Sheehan explains the filibuster’s history, evolution, rules, and potential reforms. Why do most bills need 60 votes to pass the Senate? Ben Sheehan explains the filibuster’s history, evolution, ...

Three weeks into shutdown gridlock, some Senate Republicans are expressing openness to a controversial solution: nuking the filibuster. “I know that’s being discussed,” Sen. Susan Collins, the chair ...