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Filibuster
trans rights
Mar. 23, 2023
Nebraska Senator Goes Scorched-Earth to Defend Trans Youth Machaela Cavanaugh is prepared to filibuster indefinitely to block a bill targeting gender-affirming care for minors.
By Claire Lampen
life after roe
June 30, 2022
Biden: Scrap the Filibuster (Once) to Codify Abortion The ultimate Senate traditionalist backs a more drastic approach for the second time in a year.
By Benjamin Hart
the national interest
May 11, 2022
By Jonathan Chait
life after roe
May 4, 2022
Senate Democrats Will Try to Save Abortion Rights. It Won’t Work. Democrats have vowed to take action before the Supreme Court strikes down Roe v. Wade . But they still don’t have a plan to beat the filibuster.
By Ed Kilgore
the national interest
Jan. 20, 2022
The Filibuster Is Living on Borrowed Time Mitch McConnell wants you to think the fight is over. It’s not.
By Jonathan Chait
Kyrsten Sinema’s Moment of Infamy The enigmatic Democrat votes for the filibuster and against her party.
By Ben Jacobs
the national interest
Jan. 13, 2022
The Filibuster Won’t Stop an Authoritarian President Sinema’s confused case for letting Republicans block voting rights.
By Jonathan Chait
the national interest
Jan. 10, 2022
By Jonathan Chait
Will a Doomed Voting-Rights Push Really Help Biden? Democrats’ “supercharged” drive to pass voting-rights legislation, which will likely fail, could discourage base voters more than sober realism.
By Ed Kilgore
voting rights
Dec. 16, 2021
Democrats Are Cruising for a Bruising on Voting Rights If Biden and his party raise expectations on voting rights legislation that they cannot fulfill, the repercussions could be serious in 2022.
By Ed Kilgore
the national interest
Nov. 1, 2021
By Jonathan Chait
voting rights
Oct. 20, 2021
Are Failed Voting-Rights Pushes Backfiring for Democrats? The party keeps trying to dramatize Republican obstruction of voting-rights legislation. But it is also drawing attention to its futility.
By Ed Kilgore
Democrats, Joe Manchin Is Absolutely Not Going to Reform the Filibuster If a potential debt default followed by an economic collapse isn’t reason enough to limit the power of the filibuster, nothing else is either.
By Ed Kilgore
All These Crises in Congress Are Self-Imposed The dysfunction in D.C. is largely the product of Congress’s own laws and procedures. And lawmakers have the power to fix it.
By Ed Kilgore
Mitch McConnell Prefers Calamitous Debt Default to Helping Democrats Democrats helped McConnell raise the debt limit during the last administration, but he insists Republicans aren’t going to return the favor.
By Ed Kilgore
voting rights
Aug. 25, 2021
What Would the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act Actually Do? The legislation, which just passed the House again, would slow down state voter-suppression measures. But it is opposed by nearly all Republicans.
By Ed Kilgore
If Democrats Don’t Exploit This Trifecta, Another Could Be Far Away Democrats will probably lose their governing trifecta in 2022, and it won’t get easier in 2024 or 2026. Historically, they don’t come along often.
By Ed Kilgore
the national interest
Aug. 5, 2021
By Jonathan Chait
voting rights
July 24, 2021
Democrats Can’t Out-Organize a Gerrymander — or Outflank Joe Manchin Voting-rights advocates shouldn’t expect Biden to do the impossible in Congress, while Biden should understand there are laws you cannot out-organize.
By Ed Kilgore
voting rights
July 8, 2021
Kamala Harris Unveils Another Fallback Strategy for Voting Rights Getting voters to the polls despite hostile state laws is a valuable Plan B for voting rights, not a mere a gesture after failure in Congress.
By Ed Kilgore
infrastructure
June 24, 2021
‘We Have a Deal’: Biden Endorses Senators’ Bipartisan Infrastructure Plan The deal can only hang together if Democrats, including Joe Manchin, can unite around a reconciliation bill to enact the rest of Biden’s agenda.
By Ed Kilgore
the national interest
June 24, 2021
Dianne Feinstein’s Confused Nostalgia for the Filibuster The system worked in the old days, before the filibuster was routine.
By Jonathan Chait
the national interest
June 22, 2021
Kyrsten Sinema’s Filibuster Defense Is Factually Untrue Moderate senator loves the supermajority requirement, doesn’t understand how it works.
By Jonathan Chait
the national interest
June 21, 2021
Is This the Dumbest Filibuster Defense Ever Written? I cannot believe this column was published in a national newspaper.
By Jonathan Chait
Manchin Says He’ll Oppose For the People Act Democrats’ would-be landmark voting-rights legislation now officially appears to be dead on arrival.
By Chas Danner
the national interest
June 2, 2021
The Fake History of the Filibuster Won’t Die Senators keep repeating the made-up origin story for their peculiar rule.
By Jonathan Chait
the national interest
Apr. 13, 2021
By Jonathan Chait
voting rights
Mar. 24, 2021
Will Joe Manchin Save Voting Rights? Manchin’s state is afoul of many provisions of the For the People Act. A more modest bill might help convince him to support a filibuster exception.
By Ed Kilgore
Trump Flip-Flops on the Filibuster Trump often said the filibuster was killing the Republican Party. Now, he says keeping it is the key to the party’s survival.
By Ed Kilgore
Could the Atlanta Spa Shootings Break Congress’s Gun-Control Impasse? The Georgia killings add fresh urgency to two gun bills that just passed in the House, but the GOP Senate filibuster still stands in the way.
By Ed Kilgore
the national interest
Mar. 17, 2021
By Jonathan Chait
the national interest
Mar. 7, 2021
By Jonathan Chait
the national interest
Mar. 6, 2021
How Never Trumpers Are Becoming Pro-Democracy Republicans Republicans who left the party over Trump are staying away over authoritarianism.
By Jonathan Chait
Republican Senators Haven’t Represented a Majority of Voters Since 1996 The anti-majoritarian nature of the Senate has helped Republicans block progress for many years.
By Ed Kilgore
What the Filibuster Has Cost America The damage has been massive, and it’s past time for reform.
By Ed Kilgore
Democrats Take Control After Striking Power-Sharing Deal Both Democrats and Republicans can claim a tactical win in the maneuvering over the filibuster.
By Ed Kilgore
voting rights
Jan. 29, 2021
Why Democrats Must Keep the Filibuster From Killing Voting Rights With red states racing to further restrict voting, some limited filibuster reform to allow voting-rights legislation to be passed is now essential.
By Ed Kilgore
The Defining Battle of Biden’s Presidency Is Already Raging in the Senate Mitch McConnell’s push for Democrats to rule out filibuster abolition — and thus, most of their policy goals — has triggered a standoff.
By Eric Levitz
president trump
Jan. 19, 2021
We’re Lucky the Trump Presidency Wasn’t Worse Electing an authoritarian reality star brought us mass death and insurrection. But it’s also left us with a fighting chance to fortify our democracy.
By Eric Levitz
Biden Had One Job and He Did It Biden took advantage of all Trump’s self-inflicted political wounds and now looks to be a necessary if limited transitional president.
By Ed Kilgore
vision 2020
Sept. 25, 2020
Democrats Are Moving Fast on the Filibuster. Joe Biden Isn’t Yet. Nearly everything the party wants to achieve probably hinges on a procedural step their candidate may refuse to take.
By Gabriel Debenedetti
police reform
June 25, 2020
Senate Democrats Stall Republican Police-Reform Bill to Force Negotiations Bipartisan negotiations will have to occur unless both parties are satisfied with their positions on this subject going into November.
By Ed Kilgore
If He Wants to Save the Country, Biden Needs to Understand Obama’s Failures If he wins, Biden will face challenges more daunting than those Obama faced, and failed to vanquish, in 2009. He’ll need to aim higher.
By Ed Kilgore
vision 2020
Feb. 19, 2020
Elizabeth Warren’s One-Two Punch for Conquering Washington The policy-oriented senator has at least a good start on a plan for enacting her plans.
By Ed Kilgore
vision 2020
Sept. 13, 2019
Bernie’s Plan to Thwart the Filibuster Is Needlessly Complicated At the debate, Sanders described a dubious strategy for circumventing the filibuster, borrowed from Ted Cruz. Warren has a simpler idea: abolish it.
By Ed Kilgore
Today’s Republicans Use the Filibuster Just Like the Segregationists Did Until Democrats show the moral outrage that overcame filibusters against civil rights, you can forget about gun, climate change, or immigration bills.
By Ed Kilgore
the national interest
Aug. 22, 2019
By Jonathan Chait
vision 2020
Aug. 10, 2019
Is Beating Trump the Best Democrats Can Hope to Achieve in 2020? Maybe electability is the only candidate quality that matters if Democrats can’t figure out a way to enact their agenda.
By Ed Kilgore
budget deal
July 22, 2019
Trump, Pelosi Reach Budget/Debt Limit Deal Yes, the deal is a hamburger job that doesn’t satisfy anyone’s appetites, but that’s the price you pay for divided government.
By Ed Kilgore
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