I encourage you to take a quick glance at my book Filibustered!, which lays out the history in the early phases of the Senate. There was no such thing as a filibuster. There was an understanding ...

The filibuster is a procedural, not constitutional, requirement and can be changed. It’s been on the Senate books since 1917, ...

completely disconnected from Senate practice and history, requires that the legislative filibuster and the judicial filibuster stand or fall together. After the hours-long ban took effect at ...

Former South Carolina Sen. Strom Thurmond’s 1957 filibuster in opposition to landmark civil rights legislation remains the longest in history at just over 24 hours. Last month, Senate Democrats ...

The longest spoken filibuster in American history was by Sen. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina, who went on for 24 hours and 18 minutes in filibustering the Civil Rights Act of 1957. Thurmond ...

for her pivotal role in preserving the Senate’s filibuster rule ... attempt to weaken the filibuster rule will be remembered in history. "The institution of the Senate is only as strong as ...

I went to Sen. Jeff Merkley, an Oregon Democrat who led the effort to reform the filibuster during Biden’s term and is also the co-author of the 2024 book, “Filibustered! How to Fix the Broken ...

I encourage you to take a quick glance at my book Filibustered!, which lays out the history in the early phases of the Senate. There was no such thing as a filibuster. There was an understanding of ...