Democrats reintroduced the John Lewis Voting Rights Act, a bill expanding the federal government's authority to oversee U.S.

In 2005, when the Democrats were holding up qualified judicial nominees via the filibuster in the Senate despite the fact the ...

It’s not a filibuster if a senator isn’t actually delaying something. If there is nothing in the parliamentary queue and a senator ties up the floor for 12 hours, no dice.

Voting rights activists prepare for filibuster fight in Senate Congressional Democrats are pursuing an ambitious legislative agenda supported by President Biden, but many of the bills that pass in ...

In a town-hall-style event Thursday with CNN's Anderson Cooper, Mr. Biden said he would be open to doing away with the filibuster in order to pass voting rights and "maybe more." ...

And it might work! After all, if all 50 Democrats vote for a change to the Senate rules on the filibuster – and Vice President Kamala Harris breaks the tie – well, then, the change is made ...

“The legislative filibuster may be the single most important thing preserving the Senate’s constitutional role as a check on majority tyranny,” Sen. John Thune of South Dakota, a Republican ...

Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell has been arguing to maintain the legislative filibuster, which Barack Obama called a “Jim Crow relic.” The filibuster was primarily used to block civil ...

We believe that the best way forward is for Harris to rule that the current version of the Senate filibuster operates as an unconstitutional 60-vote supermajority requirement for the enactment of ...

The filibuster has not even fulfilled its vaunted role as a stimulator for more robust debate and discussion. The findings deal yet another blow to a legislative rule whose abolition is long overdue.