>"President Joe Biden is in Atlanta on Tuesday delivering a major speech on voting rights, looking to turn up the heat on reluctant senators as Democrats face pressure to pass two pieces of pending legislation opposed by nearly all _...Read More_

>"President Joe Biden says he supports making an exception to the Senate filibuster rules in order to pass voting rights legislation."

>"The president said any push to “fundamentally alter” the Senate’s 60-vote threshold would have to wait until after Congress passed his vast spending agenda."

"The Supreme Court is useless. Now is the perfect time for feminists to campaign to end the filibuster and pass a federal law codifying abortion _...Read More_

>"Because neither party can reliably elect enough senators to overcome a filibuster, modern American politics is trapped. We figured out _...Read More_

The filibuster was a rule developed specifically to defend the institution of slavery and only resurrected in the 20th century to to guard Jim Crow laws against the threat of civil rights. And here we see the filibuster brandished again to _...Read More_

>"He warned of a “scorched-earth Senate” if Democrats kill the filibuster. But that future is already here—thanks largely to him."

The House used to have a filibuster too. And when legislators got rid of it, the result was a more democratic, productive institution.

>"With Republicans poised to block Democrats’ top priorities, the party-line vote on the $1.9 trillion pandemic aid package showed the gulf between the parties was too wide to be bridged."

>"Stunts like forcing legislation to be read aloud would be trivially easy to get rid of, if anyone wanted to."

>"In a new book, Adam Jentleson blames government failures on more than a century of Southern obstruction in the Senate."

>"Will they get rid of the filibuster if it means passing their voting-rights and election-reform agenda?"

>"Senator Mitch McConnell dropped his demand that Democrats promise to preserve the procedural weapon that can grind the Senate to a halt, but with President Biden’s agenda in the balance, the fight is not over."