In theory, to filibuster means a senator keeps speaking in opposition to legislation to prevent the vote, which by the mid-1800s became known as "talking a bill to death."The Senate in 1917 ...

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.

But according to Sarah A. Binder, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, that opened the door to the filibuster in the mid-1800s — with opposing senators talking nonstop to prevent a vote ...

A filibuster is “endless debate,” says Stephen Medvic, professor of government at Franklin & Marshall College. ... In the mid-1800s, the tactic was given the name “filibuster. ...

In essence, the filibuster allows for unlimited debate in the Senate – unless 60 senators, a supermajority, vote to end it – making it impossible for a bill to come to a vote.

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. Alexander Hamilton and James ...

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 ...

One of the oldest and most historically significant traditions in the tradition-encrusted U.S. Senate, the filibuster, has been widely regarded as doomed in recent years as exceptions have been ...

They favor the filibuster when it’s convenient for them, and they try to abolish it when it stands in the way of their far-left agenda,” Senate Majority Leader John Thune told The Post.

Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II, president of advocacy group Repairers of the Breach, on Monday said it was important to get rid of the filibuster due to its history as a “regressive piece of ...

The filibuster is a term used frequently by people in Washington, but few Americans understand it, at least according to recent polling.The procedural tactic has been used by Democrats and ...

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) speaks with reporters as she arrived for a vote at the U.S. Capitol last week. (Francis Chung/POLITICO via AP Images) “The same Dems who argue to keep the ...