Tag: filibuster

The 2020 Census data is in, with both encouraging and disconcerting results. First, the good news. The country has gotten more diverse. According to Nicholas Jones, the...

One week into the Biden presidency, the Democratically controlled Senate is facing its first procedural hurdle. Despite a raft of executive orders setting him apart from...

On the surface, one of the best moments of the week came when Donald Trump's own nominee for the Supreme Court, Neil Gorsuch, said he...

After blocking even so much as a hearing on former President Barack Obama's SCOTUS pick, Merrick Garland, Republicans are now in a tizzy over...

No doubt you still recall that infamous filibuster which Texas Senator Ted Cruz conducted in 2013 as part of a completely failed effort to...

Senate Democrats are pledging to bring business as usual in Congress to a screeching halt unless something is done about gun laws in the...

Many polls consider President Barack Obama one of the most polarizing American leaders to ever set foot in the White House. It is clear...

A filibuster-free Senate's needed today, but what about tomorrow OK, the filibuster's dead and it's about time. President Barack Obama has the right to make executive...

Thanks to the phenomenon of social media, images of State Senator Wendy Davis' emotion-packed filibuster in Austin, Texas last month quickly ricocheted around the...

Curious as to how Texas Senate Republicans got away with altering the congressional time stamp on Senate Bill 5 to make it appear as...

Just minutes after midnight on Wednesday, June 26, thousands of online spectators, myself included, watched in horror as the Texas Senate lost whatever credibility...