Month: November 2013

The elimination of the filibuster for administrative and judicial nominees (not including those to the Supreme Court) will have short and long-term consequences. One of the easier things to predict is that the filibuster will be...

Back in July, Hendrik Hertzberg did an excellent piece in The New Yorker about what Alexander Hamilton thought about parliamentary rules that require more than a simple majority to come to a decision. Simply put, Hamilton...

Five term Hawaii State Rep (D) Tom Brower has had it with the homeless. … “I want to do something practical that will really clean up the streets,” he explained to Hawaii News Now as he showed off his property...

While it was necessary to change the rules of the Senate to allow the administration to appoint its staff and put judges on the courts, it still required the Democrats to change the rules with a mere majority. And that precedent...

It took all morning and part of the afternoon, but the U.S. Senate has officially changed the rules so that nominations (not including to the Supreme Court) can get cloture with the support of 50 senators (with the...