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Sen. Cory Booker Makes a Mark of His Own

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“It seemed wrong to me,” Booker said. “It always seemed wrong.”
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Wisconsin voters elected Susan Crawford to the State Supreme Court yesterday, maintaining the court's four-three liberal majority.
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Dane County Judge Susan Crawford defeated right-wing Waukesha County Judge Brad Schimel —and, by proxy, Elon Musk, who poured millions into the race and campaigned personally on the conservative’s be...

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Sen. Cory Booker’s record-breaking speech recalls Civil Rights Movement
Booker invoked the late Congressman John Lewis and urged Americans to make “good trouble” as Lewis had in opposing Jim Crow laws.
With a nod to America’s civil rights legacy, Senator Cory Booker makes a mark of his own
Throughout his speech Booker read letters from Americans about the impact that Trump’s agenda is having on their lives, drawing historical parallels and warning that the country faces a “looming constitutional crisis.
Cory Booker Breaks Racist Record With Longest Senate Speech In Protest Of Trump
On Tuesday, Sen. Cory Booker broke Thurmond’s record by holding the longest speech on the Senate floor to protest President Donald Trump and his racist regime.
Democrats win Wisconsin, Republican margins sag in Florida | The Excerpt
Cory Booker breaks the record for the longest known Senate speech. Plus, actor Val Kilmer dies at 65. It's all on The Excerpt.
Cory Booker and the Art of Authentic Communication
Cory Booker (D-NJ) speaks to reporters as he leaves the Senate Chamber after delivering a record setting floor speech in Washington, DC. Photo: Senator Cory Booker just set a U.S. Senate record by speaking for 25 hours 5 minutes—an act of protest,
Who Is Cory Booker, the Democrat From New Jersey Holding the Senate Floor?
The lawmaker who's been holding the Senate floor with a lengthy speech railing against President Donald Trump's Republican agenda is a New Jersey Democrat who once found common ground with the preside
Cory Booker's Senate Spectacle and Wisconsin's Elon Musk Rebuke Are Proof of Life for Dems
Between Booker's record-breaking 25-hour speech and Elon Musk's $20 million flop, the party has found at least a little bit of a pulse.
New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker Launches Overnight Speech to Protest Trump's Agenda
New Jersey Democratic Sen. Cory Booker has carried an all-night speech in protest of President Donald Trump’s agenda into a new day
Cory Booker’s 25-Hour Speech Was a Stunt. It Worked.
The New Jersey senator’s display of stamina wasn't just for the Democratic base. It was a message to his colleagues in the Senate.
'Segregation and Democracy Don’t Mix': The 1963 Freedom Marches in downtown Nashville
It was the early spring of 1963, Saturday, March 23, and again on Saturday, March 30, to be exact when a group of anti-segregation demonstrators led by Civil Rights activist John Lewis staged a "Freedom March" through the streets of downtown Nashville protesting the refusal of several businesses to desegregate their lunch counters.
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Fred Gray represented MLK and Rosa Parks. Now he's calling for a new civil rights movement
Gray recalled the last time he spoke to longtime friend U.S. Rep. John Lewis about a week before Lewis' death. Lewis was beaten in Alabama while working to integrate the interstate bus system as a Freedom Rider and again while leading the Bloody Sunday march for voting rights in 1965.
Judge Raises Jan. 6 Cases in Questioning Civil Rights Activist
A Fifth Circuit judge invoked the government’s prosecutions of Capitol rioters on Jan. 6, 2021, as she sharply questioned a civil rights activist’s ties to the Black Lives Matter movement.
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Inspired by late civil rights activists, Good Trouble Democracy Brigade forms
The name comes from late civil rights activist and U.S. Rep. John Lewis, who urged folks to cause “good trouble” to achieve change. The Franklin County connection, Swedlund said, is war-tax ...
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