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Angus King
April 27, 2023
Grace Segers
Don’t Look Now, but a Bipartisan Plan to Rein in the Supreme Court Has Arrived
Clarence Thomas’s news-making scandals have senators eager to rein in the high court. At least one Republican has signed on to the effort.
August 4, 2022
Grace Segers
Congress May Actually Step Up to Block the Next Coup Attempt
Could the Senate—gasp!—actually pass legislation to reform the obscure law that nearly enabled Trump's plot to overturn the 2020 election?
January 26, 2022
Grace Segers
Fixing the Electoral Count Act Is Suddenly the Most Popular Policy Idea in Washington
Experts and politicians agree: The measure is in desperate need of reform, in order to avoid a repeat of 2020 in 2024.
December 2, 2021
Grace Segers
Chuck Schumer’s Daunting Quest to “Restore the Senate”
The majority leader is spearheading an effort to somehow pass voting rights legislation without destroying the filibuster—and do it by year’s end.
October 21, 2021
Grace Segers
Another Voting Rights Bill Just Died in the Senate. What Now, Biden?
Maine independent Senator Angus King is leading a chorus of voices urging the president to get in the game.
February 5, 2021
Osita Nwanevu
Inside the West Virginian Movement to Push Joe Manchin to the Left
The wild variety of grassroots organizers hoping to give the nudge to the senator all agree on one thing: The old ways won’t work.
October 29, 2020
Matt Ford
The Deradicalization of Supreme Court Reform
Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation has won some surprising court-packing converts, but the broader public isn’t behind them—yet.
January 5, 2010
Barron YoungSmith
Linc Chafee on Why He Almost Joined the Green Party
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