In my new Confirmation Tales post, I set forth the basics of filibusters and cloture as a prelude to diving into Senate Democrats’ deployment of the filibuster in 2003 against Miguel Estrada’s D.C.

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On May 9, 2001, President George W. Bush nominated Miguel Estrada to the U.S. Court of Appeals to the D.C. Circuit. If confirmed, Estrada would have been the first Latino to serve on this court, but ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In May and July of 2017, early in his first term, President Donald Trump unleashed flocks of shrieking tweets imploring the Senate ...

Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., filed "cloture" Tuesday to break filibusters on three nominees, starting with Ratcliffe. "Invoking cloture" is the parliamentary means to break a filibuster.

Sen. Cory Booker was not officially filibustering, a practice that dates back to 1789. A defining feature of the U.S. Senate for more than two centuries, the concept of using long speeches to delay ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. In this June 9, 2016, photo, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid of Nev., speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in ...

When Democratic President Joe Biden took office in January 2021 and the Republican leadership of the Senate — no longer representing a majority of the chamber — still capable of following through on ...

Senator Mike Lee has explained that Republicans will use the talking filibuster in the Senate to advance the SAVE America Act ...

For all of the melodrama preceding it, Thursday's Senate floor vote to change a rule and prevent filibusters on certain administration nominees wasn't very dramatic — "people in dark suits milling ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: A version of this story was first published in 2021, when Democrats were trying to end the filibuster. It was completely predictable that President Donald Trump would call on Senate ...