In doing so, Booker of New Jersey broke the record for longest Senate floor speech, a mark that had belonged for decades to Strom Thurmond, the avowed segregationist from South Carolina who ...

The move was widely seen as a first step for Pascoe to run for attorney general in the 2026 Republican primary if incumbent ...

The record that Booker broke belonged to the late Sen. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina, a devout segregationist who spoke for 24 hours, 18 minutes in opposition to the Civil Rights Act of 1957.

Booker, D-N.J., surpassed the previous record of 24 hours, 18 minutes set in 1957 by Sen. Strom Thurmond, D-S.C., with a speech that clocked in at 25 hours, 4 minutes. When he broke the record at ...

If nothing else informs you of the rot at the core of former U.S. Sen. Strom Thurmond’s moral character and the shamelessness of his hypocrisy, it’s how the white segregationist from South ...

Cory Booker (D-N.J.) has claimed a peculiar distinction: surpassing South Carolina Sen. Strom Thurmond’s notorious 24-hour civil rights filibuster to deliver the longest speech in Senate history.

Her friend, Charles Gathers, had grown up in the high rises across Diamond Street but had recently moved to Staley's ...

He received his bachelor's and Master’s degrees from Stanford and was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to study at The Queen’s College, Oxford, earning a degree in United States history in 1994. He got ...

Strom Thurmond’s (D-SC) 24-hour-and-18-minute speech against the passage of the Civil Rights Act in 1957. It follows a long tradition of lengthy speeches in the upper chamber of the U.S ...

Booker’s speech surpassed the previous record for longest Senate floor speech, held by Strom Thurmond since 1957. The speech, which criticized actions of the Trump Administration policies ...