Some are asking if President Donald Trump, who has criticized the filibuster, might call for the “nuclear option" to remove ...

The first-term senator pitched the notion during an appearance Wednesday night on Fox News, lamenting that the filibuster was ...

Democrats spent this week celebrating Booker’s historic “filibuster,” typically an antimajoritarian tool that helps preserve the Senate’s deliberative nature. Pollster Frank Luntz predicted that the ...

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 ...

(CNN) — The ability of federal judges to hold the Trump administration in contempt for defying their orders could be undermined by legislation approved by a House Republican-led committee late ...

Sometimes, journalists and pundits resort to extended metaphor in order to explain otherwise dry but consequential moments in politics. Sometimes, that pundit is Rush Limbaugh, and he decides to ...

Nine days into the government shutdown, Republican Sen. Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia tells CNN’s Dana Bash she’s against abolishing the filibuster to end the funding stalemate. “It sounds ...

In Proposition 50, California Democratic Party leaders have asked voters to approve a new map for California’s congressional districts to “fight fire with fire,” in response to Texas Republicans’ ...