It’s a scenario that has played out repeatedly for decades in the Senate: A narrow majority, intent on getting its way on legislation it prioritizes, is held back by the filibuster, and threatens to ...

Raise your hand if you thought the filibuster would be a top issue in the most important Republican Senate primary of this year’s midterm elections. Congratulations if that was your guess. The ...

Notably, former Sen. Joe Manchin wants to see the House flip to Democrats, seeing it as a check on the White House.

Senate Republican leadership is not budging against pressure to use a so-called talking filibuster to pass the party’s voter identification legislation, despite President Donald Trump’s adding weight ...

The Democratic Party wants to break the United States Senate’s legislative filibuster in order to pack the Supreme Court with jurisprudential clones of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, who has quickly ...

Republican Louisiana Rep. Julia Letlow is calling on Senate Republicans to invoke the talking filibuster to get the SAVE America Act to President Donald Trump’s desk. “I firmly believe, as do most ...

At this point, we know the "SAVE America Act" -- or the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, which would require voter ID and proof of citizenship to vote, and would strictly limit the use of ...

Trump has called for months to terminate the filibuster, telling Republicans it’s the only way to pass the party’s agenda items without Democratic interference.

Some days you sit down to write a column and realize all the ideas you have are going to piss a large section of the audience off. At that point, you have a choice to either pick one and plow ahead, ...

Donald Trump—juggling a war that shows more signs every week of dragging on far longer than he imagined, a nation of enraged air travelers, and a day of protests against him that was the largest of ...