Eric Black Ink is a column by veteran journalist Eric Black covering national and state politics, policy, government and history.
At the outset of the Senate, a simple majority could vote to end debate and force a vote. But that was so rarely necessary that such a power was left out of subsequent revisions of Senate rules.
According to Section 3 of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution … probably.
In 2020, Biden had some of the strongest Gen Z support of any recent Democratic candidate.
Republicans haven’t held a quarterly advantage this large since 1995.
Whether economic, meteorological or political.
An anocracy is a form of government that is neither a full democracy nor a full dictatorship, but has elements of both.
Trump’s reaction to President Joe Biden’s most direct criticism yet is as predictable as it it fantastical.
Everything President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris said this morning about the January 6 insurrections falls into the category of true-but-not-new.
If you had to guess, of the 45 men who have been president of the United States, how many of them would you say served two and exactly two full terms, then retired?
In a video, the former labor secretary illustrates — with pictures and captions — his analysis of modern U.S. politico-economic history.
The kinds of changes in voting laws and procedures in Trumpian-Republican-controlled states will, if they become law, make it easier to steal the next election.
I would like to live long enough to witness Donald Trump acknowledging that he lost the 2020 election fair and square, because then I would live forever.
A recent Rockefeller Institute study makes clear how much money flows out of Democratic-leaning states into Republican-leaning ones.
I’ve never previously advocated for the expansion of the Supreme Court, but my thinking has been heading in that direction for a while and for obvious reasons, especially after the Garland case.
What if private citizens were empowered to enforce gun laws?
A new article in the Atlantic makes the case that “Donald Trump’s GOP is much better positioned to subvert the next election.”
The loser of the national popular vote has been elected president five times in American history — but two of those times were in the 21st century.
Dalia Lithwick’s story for Slate ran under the headline: “SCOTUS Will Gaslight Us Until the End.”
Like all government officials, Trump had to sign a disclosure of the money that came to him through his public job, and how he spent the money.
Not everything is clearly on the right or wrong track.
