Political Polarization Killed the Filibuster
The practice once promoted debate and compromise, but now, the 60-vote requirement is tantamount to a legislative death sentence.
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The practice once promoted debate and compromise, but now, the 60-vote requirement is tantamount to a legislative death sentence.
A decade into his tenure on the Court, Samuel Alito has emerged as the most solidly conservative justice on the bench.
A century and a half after the passage of the Reconstruction Amendments, public debate still revolves around the rights they guarantee.