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17 Mar 2015, 1:54 am by rhapsodyinbooks
(Three weeks before the August 28 march, Senator Strom Thurmond, later to be exposed for his own sexual “peccadilloes,” publicly attacked Rustin on the floor of the Senate by reading reports of his Pasadena arrest for homosexual behavior a decade earlier — documents he probably got from FBI director J. [read post]
7 Oct 2014, 2:35 pm by Kent Scheidegger
  Mississippi Senator Trent Lott found that out when he said, at Strom Thurmond's 100th birthday party, that America would have had fewer problems if Thurmond had been elected president in 1948. [read post]
31 Aug 2014, 6:07 am by Lawrence B. Ebert
Arm candy for Strom Thurmond and the Pope. [read post]
16 Mar 2014, 9:30 pm by Karen Tani
The larger-than-life cast of characters ranges from Senate lions like Mike Mansfield and Strom Thurmond to NAACP lobbyist Charles Mitchell, called “the 101st senator” for his Capitol Hill clout, and industrialist J. [read post]
18 Nov 2013, 3:07 pm by Eugene Volokh
(Eugene Volokh) I wanted to pass along another brief the UCLA First Amendment Amicus Brief Clinic submitted last week. [read post]
11 Nov 2013, 4:59 pm by Buce
 One, recall how opposition from the left (Henry Wallace) and the right (Strom Thurmond) lifted the incubus of extremism from the shoulders of Harry S Truman and allowed him to barrel home through the center. [read post]
20 Oct 2013, 9:30 pm by Dan Ernst
Critchlow, The Conservative Ascendancy:  How the GOP Right Made Political History (2007); Joseph Crespino, Strom Thurmond’s America (2012); Robert O. [read post]
22 Sep 2013, 8:35 am by Susan Schneider
This year’s LL.M. class is a diverse and talented group of attorneys with law degrees from the UCLA, the University of Colorado, Indiana University, Vermont Law School, the University of Londrina in Brazil, the University of Arkansas at Little Rock (William Bowen School of Law), Arizona State University, the University of South Carolina, and, our own University of Arkansas School of Law. [read post]
17 Apr 2013, 3:09 pm by Buce
  And I guess I could tolerate a filibuster back when it meant that Strom Thurmond had to pee down his leg. [read post]
17 Mar 2013, 6:26 am
Richard Nixon in toasting [Strom] Thurmond's inspiring 90-year journey from racist Democratic segregationist to mossback Republican obstructionist." [read post]
7 Mar 2013, 10:08 am by Raffaela Wakeman
I would go for another 12 hours to try to break Strom Thurmond’s record, but I have discovered there are some limits to filibustering, and I am going to have to go take care of one of those in a few minutes here. [read post]
26 Feb 2013, 11:43 am by Dan Ernst
., Senator Strom Thurmond) argued that the Thirteenth Amendment forbade Title II; they equated "involuntary servitude" with "rendering involuntary service" and with violating private property rights. [read post]
5 Feb 2013, 10:40 am
Said the mixed-raced daughter of one-time segregationist Strom Thurmond in 2003. [read post]
15 Jan 2013, 2:18 pm by Adam Gillette
Because he was in the Senate for 48 years, it is easy to think that Strom Thurmond was always a senator. [read post]
22 Dec 2012, 3:26 pm by Sandy Levinson
  I don't think that Succession by the President pro Tem of the Senate makes any more sense than Succession by the Speaker (and would be just as unconstitutional if one accepts Amar's argument), but at least Leahy, by all accounts, is still fully functioning, unlike such recent potential presidents as Strom Thurmond and Robert Byrd. [read post]
18 Dec 2012, 6:19 pm by Jeff Foust
The provisions would maintain the existing security and monitoring provisions of the Strom Thurmond Act. [read post]
16 Nov 2012, 12:24 pm by Sandy Levinson
"  Social conservatives might well like the Electoral College, incidentally, if they figure, probably rightly, that they can win at least the same number of electoral votes won by Strom Thurmond or George Wallace and, should the election be thrown into the House (which, remember picks a Preisdent on a one-state/one-vote basis), be able to exercise great influence at least over the Cabinet picks of ultimate winner. [read post]
31 Oct 2012, 7:16 am by J. Gordon Hylton
Suppose President Obama wins all of the electoral votes from (1) all of the Northeastern states except New Hampshire; (2) Maryland, Delaware, the District of Columbia, and Virginia; (3) all of the states that border on the Pacific Ocean except Alaska; and (4) New Mexico, Colorado, Minnesota, Illinois, and Michigan. [read post]