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

In 2022, then-President Joe Biden signed the Respect for Marriage Act (RMA), a law that repealed the 1996 Defense of Marriage ...

nine votes shy of the 60 needed to clear the 100-member chamber's filibuster hurdle. The ERA was proposed in 1923 and passed Congress in 1972. Under U.S. law, amendments to the Constitution must ...

Our 237-year-old Constitution is out of date. The U.S. Senate and the Electoral College are bulwarks of white supremacy. The legislative filibuster thwarts reform. The two-party system is stifling.

So there's an existing norm in the Senate that allows the filibuster. Filibuster doesn't appear in the Constitution. It's just a tradition in the Senate. That doesn't automatically mean it's good.

Donald Trump’s early administration moves are accelerating the concentration of executive power at the expense of Congress.

Powerless to stop President Trump or Russell T. Vought, the nominee to lead the White House budget office, Democrats pulled ...

A constitutional convention would present an opportunity to enshrine in the Constitution the tenets, morals, and ethics of a ...

Two years ago, a weekslong filibuster over a bill limiting certain ... which is required by the state constitution. One lobbyist told the Journal Star the budget debate will likely "suck all ...

U.S. Congress can't just sit by while President Trump does whatever he wants. But lawmakers seem to have no intention of actually working.

That wasn't going to happen in 2025, and Friday's filibuster is an indication that ... which enshrines the right to an abortion in the state constitution, on a 62% to 38% vote.