Whenever you hear someone argue that the Founding Fathers actually wanted the Senate to have a filibuster, I doubt this person actually knows what the heck they are talking about. In fact, if you go ...

Proponents of the “talking filibuster” quagmire like to point to the success of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 as evidence that important things can be done by breaking a talking filibuster. After all, ...

President Donald Trump isn't dropping his quest to eliminate the filibuster. That's going to get complicated for Senate Republicans in an election year. The president's fixation with undoing the ...

Republican candidates running in some of the most competitive Senate races in 2026 are increasingly weighing in on a growing fight inside the GOP over whether to force Democrats into a “talking ...

I’ve explained why the “talking filibuster” will lead Republicans into a quagmire. I’ve also answered objections to that argument and explained why Harry Reid’s actions in 2013 show how even modest ...

So, as we watch the current government shutdown roil on, the question of the filibuster has emerged in our national conversation, at least on the margins. This is because the reason that we are in a ...

Republican candidates running in some of the most competitive Senate races in 2026 are increasingly weighing in on a growing fight inside the GOP over whether to force Democrats into a “talking ...