U.S. Senator #CoryBooker addresses the #Senate floor. Booker, a #Democrat from New Jersey, has promised to speak "as long" as he's physically able on the Senate floor Monday night into Tuesday morning, criticizing the #Trump admin.
Hell yeah.
#resist #AbuseOfPower #autocracy #tyranny #TrumpCoup
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCUK2VbdLS4
Senator #CoryBooker has now entered his 22nd hour speaking on the #Senate floor, criticizing the #Trump admin.
If he makes it to 7:19PM ET, he will have surpassed the all time record in US history.
Senator Strom Thurmond’s 1957 civil rights debate on the Senate floor holds the record at 24 hours & 18 minutes long.
#resist #AbuseOfPower #autocracy #tyranny #TrumpCoup
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCUK2VbdLS4
30 minutes away from breaking the record. Senator #CoryBooker is still speaking about the importance of the US #Constitution & standing up for the #rights of all #people, especially those who are being targeted by a savage few with the #money & #power to do so.
And he has done it. Senator #CoryBooker has broken Strom Thurmond’s 1957 anti-civil rights filibuster.
“I am not doing this because of him, I am doing this in spite of him.”
“I’m not quite ready to wrap this up yet.”
#resist #Trump #money #power #AbuseOfPower #autocracy #tyranny #TrumpCoup
#democracy #USpol #Senate #Constitution #rights
After 25 hours & 5 minutes, Senator #CoryBooker has yielded the floor. Here are the last ~3½ mins.
Amazingly Sen #CoryBooker is still awake & will be interviewed on The #RachelMaddow Show which starts at 9PM ET.
"I don't want a Disney vacation of our #history! I don't a #whitewashed history, I don't want a homogenized history. Tell me the wretched #truth about #America, because that speaks to our greatness" - Sen Cory Booker
#TRMS
#resist #Trump #money #power #AbuseOfPower #autocracy #tyranny #TrumpCoup
#democracy #law #USpol #Senate #Constitution #CivilRights #MoralMoment #GoodTrouble
@Nonilex Cory is still full of energy and enthusiasm drawing laughter in the room while sharing his #JohnLewis memories #GoodTrouble
@Nonilex@masto.ai We should call him Cory "BOOM BOOM BOOM" Booker. Because he keeps going, and going, and going...
@Nonilex Burn in hell, Strom, you racist motherfucker!
@Nonilex
He has just yielded the floor?
I hope the paramedics are ready to check him over!
And he wasn't even out of the chambers before the republicans got up to push through another trump nominee.....