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Ohio's ban on most abortions is unconstitutional and cannot be enforced, a Hamilton County Common Pleas Court judge ruled Thursday after voters approved a reproductive rights amendment last November.
A study from the Brennan Center earlier this year found that while voter participation has increased overall across the United States, white voters have been driving the trend. The turnout gap ...
With Democrats now holding the Senate majority, talk of eliminating the filibuster has ramped up. "A filibuster is really extended debate, extended amending activity, whatever it takes to block ...
The filibuster is central to the identity of the Senate and should remain in place. The Senate was set up to represent the will of the states and to balance against the will of the people as ...
During President George W. Bush's two term tenure in office, a few of his nominations for federal judgeships were blocked by the Senate Democrats either directly in the Senate Judiciary Committee or on the full Senate floor in various procedural moves, including the first use of a filibuster to block a Federal Appeals Court nominee. [1]
This group was quickly dubbed "the Gang of 14" in various blogs and news outlets. McCain, Chafee, Collins, and Snowe were already on record as opposing the nuclear option, leaving the Democrats two votes short of defeating an attempt to trigger it (they would have needed 51 votes to override Vice President Dick Cheney 's tie-breaking vote).
Abortion in Ohio is legal up to the point of fetal viability as a result of abortion rights being placed into the Ohio State Constitution by November 2023 Ohio Issue 1. [1]A "heartbeat bill" that banned abortions after six weeks of gestational age that was enacted before Issue 1 was challenged in court, with the Attorney General of Ohio and other Republican leaders in Ohio defending it in court.
The filibuster rule, those House Democrats argued in 2021, was preventing Congress from "advancing critical legislation that can meet the needs of the people we represent." It's a good thing the ...