On this day, we honor Rep. John Lewis and the hundreds of Americans who put their lives on the line and faced massive violence, but still refused to accept obstacles on the path to equality.
This morning, during an interview with Chuck Todd on Meet the Press, Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV), a longtime defender of the filibuster, signaled more openness to filibuster reform.
Today, Washington Post reporters Annie Linskey, Sean Sullivan, and Maria Sacchetti wrote about the growing momentum to eliminate the filibuster as fear grows that it will doom Democratic priorities.
The House has taken a strong step forward toward protecting voting rights, ending partisan gerrymandering, and strengthening our crumbling democracy – and now it heads to the Senate where it will slam into Sen. McConnell’s filibuster brick wall.
Senator Klobuchar knows that her constituents back in Minnesota care more about ending voter suppression than protecting an arcane and abused Senate rule, and that Sen. McConnell can't be allowed to make liars out of Senate Democrats who promised they would protect voting rights if voters put them in charge.
Senate Democrats are forced to jam everything they can into a budget process that protects popular policies from Sen. McConnell’s partisan filibuster, but today’s ruling highlights that this simply isn’t going to be enough.
A poll commissioned by Fix Our Senate and conducted by Global Strategy Group found that 43% of registered voters in West Virginia see the filibuster as a way to create more gridlock.
Unless Democrats take steps to reform or eliminate the filibuster, McConnell can use this obstructionist weapon to block the For the People Act
President Biden’s legislative ambitions face a crucial test in the narrowly divided Congress this month, with key Democratic senators signaling they want to pump the brakes.
Once obscure, the Senate filibuster is coming under fresh scrutiny not only because of the enormous power it gives a single senator to halt President Joe Biden’s agenda, but as a tool historically used for racism.
Gun control groups are joining the progressive fight to end the filibuster as the Senate voting rule threatens their goal of passing comprehensive gun reform.
"Historian of the 20th century South here. I dispute Mitch's statement. The filibuster has a ton of 'racial history.'"
This brief will explore the racist history of the filibuster, how it came to be used as it is today, and outline this history specifically through the lens of gun violence prevention, cataloging legislation that has been impeded by the use of the filibuster, obstructing progress toward safer communities and fewer needless tragedies.
The filibuster is a procedural tool of the Senate that delays or prevents a piece of legislation from being brought to a vote. It is a vestige of a deal made to appeal to segregationists and has historically been used to block passage of civil rights legislation.
