New Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.), above, is locked in a battle with Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) over the future of the Senate filibuster.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell gave a stark warning Tuesday about how Republicans would grind the chamber to a halt if Democrats changed the filibuster rules, leading to a “completely ...

Mitch McConnell Is Killing the Filibuster The Senate Minority Leader’s too-clever-by-half demands may push Democrats to throw over the Jim Crow–era relic once and for all.

“The filibuster will stand,” Mitch McConnell said. For Democrats, is that good news or bad news? The answer might not be immediately obvious.

When McConnell’s spinners claim that he wants to keep the filibuster to facilitate bipartisanship and moderation, it’s knee-slappingly laughable. McConnell himself has shown us otherwise.

Last week, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said of the filibuster that it “has no racial history at all. None. There’s no dispute among historians about that.” That comment, tweeted ...

Mitch McConnell once acknowledged the filibuster's racist history — now he denies it exists at all "We know from McConnell's own writings that he actually knows this history," one historian ...

Mitch McConnell: The Senate's filibuster is Kentucky's veto. It stops radical agendas. The filibuster, which requires 60 votes to advance most legislation, exists to block bad ideas from becoming ...

Monkey Cage Mitch McConnell is wrong. Here’s the filibuster’s ‘racial history.’ From defending slavery to protecting segregation, the filibuster has been heavily used to block civil rights ...

Mitch McConnell didn’t get all he’d hoped for in delaying the Senate’s organizing resolution, but got some Democrats to reaffirm their commitment to the filibuster.

Related story: Sen. Mitch McConnell warns of a ‘scorched earth’ if Senate ends filibuster So while Yarmuth calls the filibuster a “minority veto,” it’s really “Kentucky’s veto ...

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell bluntly warned Democrats on Thursday against weakening the legislative filibuster, an idea that has gained momentum with some presidential candidates and not ...