Republicans can kill the filibuster and end the government shutdown without any Democrats. But will they do it?

Facing Democratic opposition, the GOP has discarded a series of precedents and weakened minority power in order to vote through Trump's nominees and legislation.

Democrats should use the shutdown to curb the Trump administration's worst authoritarian abuses, not to try to goad Republicans into eliminating an important check on executive excess.

The vow by Republican President Donald Trump and the Republicans to quickly fill U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's seat despite a looming election has revived talk among some Democrats of expanding the number of justices on the court.

For the 21st time in the past 50 years, Congress has not been able to reach an agreement on funding for federal agencies. So what does a new shutdown actually mean for your daily life?

In a social media post, the far-right Georgia congresswoman called on Senate Republicans to eliminate the filibuster, lowering the threshold on future legislation to a simple majority.

With the start of the Supreme Court Term, the NYU Democracy Project is publishing several essays this week on the Court. The first of these, Enshrine Nine, comes from Ed Whelan, who argues for a constitutional amendment fixing the Court’s

With Congress finally going back to work this week, its one overriding task is to keep the nation from plunging over the so-called “fiscal cliff,” a combination of automatic tax increases and budget cuts. We’re in this situation because of our ...

Partisan politics tends to bring out out the bile, and few subjects have a more emetic effect than the filibuster. The procedural move, never or rarely used until recent years, now dominates Congress because it forces the Senate to secure a super-majority ...