Richard A. Arenberg

Ending the Filibuster would increase polarization

This year's presidential election may produce an unintended consequence: the jeopardization of the filibuster. In this interview, IU...

Former Congressman John Dingell, the longest-serving member of Congress in U.S. history, a skillful master of the arcane rules,...

Democrats may be on the verge of reaping the bitter harvest of the seeds sowed in November 2013. The then-majority Democrats used a...

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) has a long history of off-the-charts right-wing views. He has suggested that if Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton...

Increasingly since about 1972, voters have cast ballots for president and the Senate for members of the same party. If this pattern holds...

The unpredictable and nasty presidential campaign has obscured other matters which deserve our attention. On March 16, President Obama...

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has unleashed a torrent of commentary in the wake of her comments about presumptive Republican nominee Donald...

Democrats, led by Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), yesterday used the unique rules of the Senate to launch a filibuster demanding legislation...

Republican senators will apparently reject any nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court selected by President Barack Obama. This is a bald-faced...

Politicization of the Supreme Court may be reaching a new high water mark. Never before have we seen the Senate’s majority, speaking...

One of the most important tasks the Constitution assigns to our presidents is the nomination of justices to the Supreme Court. The shape...

Article II of the Constitution dictates few specific responsibilities to the president. Among them is the requirement to deliver the...