I think this underscores the problem with the 60-vote requirement.
A third of the party’s Members of Congress voted against a popular bill.
Assessing Republican strategic positioning (and the incentives in our system).
It’s undemocratic and we should get rid of it. But doing so isn’t a panacea.
The Free State may have gotten just a little freer.
Another entry in the “stunning, but not surprising” category of political observations.
A Trump-era policy designed to screw over blue states may actually be a good one.
How well do single-seat districts lead to representation? (And of what?)
Defense of the filibuster tend to be a combo of mistakes and mythology.
Reacting to the asymmetrical polarization of the electorate.
The fixes worsen the stated problem (more on Iowa and other states’ attempts to restrict voting).
HR1 is a national approach to expanding voter access. State legislatures are trying to both expand and restrict the vote as well.
A story that is both unserious and yet emblematic of our age in a serious way.
The Senate parliamentarian has ruled against ramming it through in the COVID relief bill.
What was mere signaling under a Republican Senate and President could now become law.
Nevada is mounting a challenge to the rural, lily-white states that always go first in the presidential primary gauntlet.
The distance in accountability between the highest and the lowest must be shortened.
Specifically: the former confederacy and Democratic dominance.
It is not a tool to foster compromise. It is tool of obstruction, plain and simple.
The problem is theoretical at best and cannot stop the Senate from acting.
Policy wonks are seeing a refreshing return to the normal order. Some believe that’s a bad thing.
Amending the Constitutional through unconstitutional means is a very bad idea.