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24 Feb 2024, 5:49 am
If that's all it is, the missing name is Strom Thurmond. [read post]
18 Jun 2023, 10:58 am
Interesting comparison at the end of the piece to Truman in 1948, who also faced splintering from two different sides: Strom Thurmond… Continue reading The post “Joe Biden May Face Two Spoiler Candidates in 2024” appeared first on Election Law Blog. [read post]
15 May 2023, 10:12 am
His appearance before the Senate was in connection with his nomination to what was then the Fifth Circuit.Unexpectedly, Johnson was presented with a “minority questionnaire” prepared by Strom Thurmond and other Republican members of the Committee. [read post]
5 May 2023, 7:29 am
In 2001, when he was 98, Senator Strom Thurmond of South Carolina was wheeled to the Senate floor to cast votes, despite widespread concern about his mental fitness. [read post]
27 Dec 2022, 6:30 am
This post was prepared for a roundtable onVoting Rights, convened as part of LevinsonFest 2022.Sanford Levinson First I must express my continued thanks to the persons actually behind this remarkable project, Richard Albert, Ashley Moran, and Trish Do. [read post]
27 Mar 2022, 11:57 am
The racist assault on Justice Marshal came from a cadre of southern segregationists senators: John McClellan (D-Ark); Strom Thurmond (R-S.C.), Sam Erwin (D-N.C.), and James Eastland (D. [read post]
9 Dec 2021, 4:50 am
But it was Strom Thurmond’s 1957 filibuster for 24 hours, in a failed effort to block a civil rights bill, that set the record for the longest one-person filibuster. [read post]
23 Mar 2021, 12:01 pm
Jordan Brunner examined the designation of “Communist Chinese military companies” and Section 1237 of the Strom Thurmond National Defense Authorization Act. [read post]
22 Mar 2021, 5:01 am
These companies have been “blacklisted” under Section 1237 of the Strom Thurmond National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for fiscal year 1999, as amended. [read post]
14 Nov 2020, 1:58 pm
, where the answer is basically because over 200 years of systematic opposition to the idiocy of that system has proved unavailing against the barriers of Article V, most dramatically in 1969, where the Senate, because of a filibuster led by white supremacists Southern senators Sam Ervin and Strom Thurmond, never voted on a proposal that had in fact gained the assent of two-thirds of the House of Representatives and perhaps would have gotten the two thirds had the Senate been… [read post]
13 Nov 2020, 3:30 pm
”[12] Leading Senators from both sides of the aisle, including Robert Byrd and Strom Thurmond, made religious arguments against passage of the CRA. [read post]
11 Oct 2020, 6:30 am
For the Balkinization Symposium on Alexander Keyssar, Why Do We Still Have the Electoral College? [read post]
12 Jun 2020, 3:00 am
Strom Thurmond’s 100th birthday, Lott recalled Mississippi had supported Thurmond’s segregationist run for president in 1948. [read post]
23 May 2020, 10:17 am
He had more positive things to say about Strom Thurmond, whom he eulogized at the old white supremacist's funeral, than he did criminal-justice reformers in that interview. [read post]
6 Mar 2020, 5:32 am
At virtually every public appearance, he also jokes self-deprecatingly about his plan to pick Senator Strom Thurmond as his running mate because the 93-year-old would bring generational balance to the ticket.Efforts to appear youthful fall flat, as when Mr. [read post]
14 May 2019, 7:29 am
It also allowed me to introduce some of the main rivals in the story — Fortas, Lyndon Johnson, Strom Thurmond, James Eastland, etc. [read post]
1 Dec 2018, 9:18 am
And throughout both semesters, I aligned the story of American legal history around the laws of slavery, race discrimination, and civil rights – important everywhere, and particularly relevant on a campus that is also home to ("Pitchfork Ben") Tillman Hall and the Strom Thurmond Institute. [read post]
28 Aug 2018, 8:13 am
Strom Thurmond of South Carolina, who joined the Senate in the mid-1960s, asked 70 percent of the substantive questions at the hearings, even as they began to shift their emphasis away from Brown and onto the Warren Court’s criminal-procedure jurisprudence and its redistricting and voting-rights cases. [read post]
7 Aug 2018, 3:39 pm
Senators Howard Metzenbaum found a powerful cosponsor for his gun ban: South Carolina Republican Strom Thurmond. [read post]
12 Mar 2018, 1:01 am
” The initial draft of the Declaration was written by South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond, and it was then fine-tuned by the well-educated lawyers North Carolina Senator Sam Ervin and Mississippi Senator John Stennis. [read post]
