Y Around 6:00 pm Central last evening...
He says Senator Chris Murphy has been there with him all night.
UPDATE 04:15 pm: He's still up and going strong. 20+ hours.
Booker, who until now had not stood out as one of POTUS 47’s more vocal critics, invoked the spirit of the late John Lewis, the legendary civil rights activist: “Tonight I rise with the intention of getting in some ’good trouble’ — I rise with the intention of disrupting the normal business of the United States Senate for as long as I am physically able.”
The New Jersey Democrat said it was time to scream out that Trump’s dictatorial habits are not normal, and his all-night monologue — technically not a filibuster, since it’s not tied to a specific piece of pending legislation — is the most powerful way for him to do that.
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It’s not going to alter any trajectories on Capitol Hill, but that’s not the point. Booker is responding in the right way to core Democrats, and others, who are also screaming that this is not normal, and who are desperate for political leaders who share their sense of urgency. If Lewis were still here, he’d surely give a thumbs up to this modern-day outbreak of good trouble.
Philadelphia Inquirer
UPDATE 07:00 pm: Strom Thurmond held the record for speech length in the Senate since the Civil Rights Act he filibustered against at 24 hours and change. Cory Booker has broken that record and is still going at 25 hours.
UPDATE 4/2/25:
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