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 ...

As the government shutdown nears its 40 th day, Republican senators are balking at President Donald Trump’s demand to end the filibuster, a rule change that would allow a simple Senate majority vote ...

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 ...

For years, California’s late Sen. Dianne Feinstein fought off calls by her fellow Democrats to get rid of the filibuster, a Senate rule used to great effect by Republicans to thwart Democrats’ key ...

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, ...

Some Republican lawmakers are pushing an old Senate procedure to pass the Trump-backed SAVE America Act — although it may turn the upper chamber into bedlam for weeks and ultimately backfire. 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 ...

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 ...

The most extended government shutdown in U.S. history has revived a familiar argument: The Senate’s filibuster is to blame for congressional paralysis. It’s a compelling narrative with a convenient ...

Populist Republicans have launched what is likely a doomed attack on the Senate filibuster, the long-standing tradition that requires 60 out of 100 votes in the upper chamber to pass most legislation.