Filed Under: “Filibuster”
Schumer: ‘We feel, very simply, on something as important as voting rights, if Senate Republicans are gonna oppose it, they should not be allowed to sit in their office’
‘Sinema doesn’t support the voting rights legislation, the filibuster just lets her pretend she does’
Georgia Republicans become latest state GOPers to pass sweeping redistricting rules on a party-line vote
Liberal groups accuse the president of deferring to the unelected Senate parliamentarian rather than helping immigrants
Extraordinary pressure from the president was necessary for the 1964 Civil Rights Act, has Biden learned from LBJ?
As national Democrats grow weary with her for enabling GOP obstruction, new polls suggest Sinema has become less popular locally
Federal and state constitutions already include so many other checks and balances, that giving a minority party veto power over widely supported legislation is unnecessary
Mitch McConnell’s filibuster abuses have enabled the GOP to avoid electoral consequences for its unpopular policies, and skewed the center of U.S. politics to the right