While fears grow over the America’s ability to conduct a presidential election during a pandemic, the Constitution and federal law establishes a strict and detailed timetable following Election Day. Here are five facts on the post-Election Day timeline. State electors are nominated before November 3rd and then selected after the popular vote is counted. In …
Eleanor Clift and Joe Concha discuss the upcoming election, Supreme Court nomination, and the role that news consumption and bipartisanship play in our nation’s discourse.
The filibuster was once an entirely different animal. It was, in and of itself, the Senate’s “nuclear option.” Members inclined to use it had to talk ceaselessly on the Senate floor without interruption. Amid the Great Depression, at a moment when a majority of both houses of Congress were prepared to embrace the cornerstone of …
