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Cory Booker broke the record for a standing filibuster by speaking for 25 hours, surpassing the 1957 record of Sen. Strom ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic Sen. Cory Booker ended his record-setting speech the same way he began it, more than 25 hours earlier: by invoking the words of his mentor, the late congressman and civil ...
Cory Booker, D-New Jersey, delivered the longest recorded floor ... which he made while speaking against the Civil Rights Act ...
Nearly 70 years after Strom Thurmond filibustered against Black civil rights, Booker’s marathon speech called out threats to democracy and the harm of Trump-era policies.
New Jersey Democratic Sen. Cory Booker held the Senate floor with a speech that lasted more than 25 hours and broke the ...
Cory Booker, the senior Democratic senator from New Jersey ... the Dixiecrat who in 1957 filibustered to delay the passage of ...
The length of Booker’s speech grabbed headlines, but the senator’s media strategy helped sustain attention afterward while ...
History has been made. “I yield the floor,” New Jersey Senator Cory Booker concluded after his 25-hour speech protesting the ...
With Lewis’ passing five years ago, we lost a moral compass. But in the halls of the Senate recently, Sen. Cory Booker admired Lewis and embodied his spirit of principled activism. He has answered ...
a longtime Georgia congressman and civil rights icon. Booker previously ran for president during the 2020 campaign and went ...
Cory Booker is taking a version of his record-breaking Senate ... Strom Thurmond in opposition to the Civil Rights Act of ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic Sen. Cory Booker ended his record-setting speech the same way he began it, more than 25 hours earlier: by invoking the words of his mentor, the late congressman and civil ...