Monkey Cage Mitch McConnell is wrong. Here’s the filibuster’s ‘racial history.’ From defending slavery to protecting segregation, the filibuster has been heavily used to block civil rights ...

Last week, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said of the filibuster that it “has no racial history at all. None. There’s no dispute among historians about that.” That comment, tweeted ...

Mitch McConnell doesn't believe the filibuster is racist. The reality is it has a history as a tool to suppress Black Americans and block anti-lynching legislature.

Experts told Newsweek that the party's attempt to fast-track Trump's budget could hold long-term consequences for Senate ...

“The filibuster will stand,” Mitch McConnell said. For Democrats, is that good news or bad news? The answer might not be immediately obvious.

McConnell is stepping down as leader, but his comments Wednesday signaled Senate Republicans will likely defend the filibuster even if Trump again pushes for reform when he takes office next year.

Sen. Mitch McConnell said the proposal to exempt abortion rights legislation from the 60-vote threshold would spell the end of the filibuster altogether.

When I interviewed to work for then-Republican Minority Leader Mitch McConnell in 2021, he told me that we’d have one focus: protecting the filibuster. Thanks to a combination of McConnell’s shrewd ...

Sen. Mitch McConnell suggested that with the GOP winning the Senate majority in the 2024 elections, the filibuster will remain intact. Fox News Media Fox Business ...

Dethrone ‘Filibuster King’ Mitch McConnell The fight is on to fix the minority’s silent domination of the Senate. Leo Gerard, United Steelworkers President December 11, 2012 ...

Mitch McConnell praised Kyrsten Sinema in introductory remarks before her speech at the University of Louisville. He said she's "the most effective first-term senator I've seen in my time in the ...

Ahead of the elections, a variety of Democratic candidates and leaders, including Kamala Harris, were fully on board with overhauling the Senate’s filibuster rule. Those efforts, as the Senate ...