Opinion: Kill the filibuster? Sounds more like campaign bluster than governing policy. Vice President Kamala Harris has been fluid on the filibuster, offering support to protect it when she wasn't ...

Wrong: Filibusters date to the mid-1800s, and for more than a century were mostly used to thwart anti-slavery, anti-lynching and civil rights bills. Some tradition.

The fate of the legislative filibuster has been at the center of recent debate as Democrats and Republicans' century-long tug-of-war on the rule is heating up. Some Democrats have called to ...

Democrats consider ending the filibuster if they win a Senate majority and the White House. The move could help them thwart Republicans' obstructions.

Frustration that the filibuster was not deployed last week should not obscure that it silently constrains the Republican agenda daily.

Democrats have fallen back in love with the filibuster. Mere weeks into President Trump’s second term, Senate Democrats are already making liberal use of the obstructive maneuver, flying in the ...

It’s unlikely, but if Republicans overrule the Senate Parliamentarian on scoring tax cuts or what qualifies for the BBB, it could be at death’s door.

Jentleson documents that the country’s founders did not intend for most legislation to require a supermajority and that the filibuster emerged only in the 1800s.

In the mid-1800s, the tactic was given the name “filibuster.” In 1917, a way to end a filibuster — called cloture — was adopted as a Senate rule.

Dating to the 1800s, the filibuster has been used by lawmakers to both advance and thwart Black racial progress — but it is in the thwarting of that progress that it has been used with greatest ...

“When you look at the history of the filibuster, from the 1800’s, every piece of anti-slavery legislation was filibustered; labor laws were filibustered; the attempt to give women the right to ...

Wrong: Filibusters date to the mid-1800s, and for more than a century were mostly used to thwart anti-slavery, anti-lynching and civil rights bills. Some tradition.