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13 Dec 2006, 1:41 pm
When Strom Thurmond appeared to be on the brink of death, there were proposals that the Democratic governor of South Carolina be forced to name a Republican successor. [read post]
6 Jul 2012, 9:48 am
Satellite technology related to communications and remote sensing first came under control of ITAR in 1999 with The Strom Thurmond National Defense Authorization Act.1 This act transferred export licensing authority for “communications satellites and related components” to the US State Department.2 The reasoning behind regulating satellites through ITAR is to protect the U.S. [read post]
7 Apr 2008, 8:34 am
Strom Thurmond, for whom Wilkins once worked, described Wilkins as "a man of character and unquestionable integrity. [read post]
4 Apr 2017, 8:10 am
Strom Thurmond of South Carolina has the record for talking on the Senate floor: Thurmond spoke for 24 hours and 18 minutes in order prevent a vote on a 1957 civil rights law. [read post]
10 Mar 2016, 1:03 pm
Johnson also is the first scholar studying the Fortas confirmation to use the papers of some of the senators who played key roles in the battle, including Fortas’s “most prominent opponents,” Senator Robert Griffin (R-Michigan) and Senator Strom Thurmond (R-South Carolina). [read post]
4 Aug 2016, 1:15 pm
The election of 1948, remember saw both an overtly segregationist general election candidate in Strom Thurmond and a left candidate in Henry Wallace who was channeling Moscow. [read post]
31 Oct 2012, 7:16 am
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]
16 Feb 2016, 12:31 pm
At this point, the Senate consisted of 47 Democrats and 47 Republicans, plus two Independents, one of whom (Wayne Morse) had recently been identified with the Republicans and one (Strom Thurmond) with the Democrats. [read post]
6 Apr 2009, 8:14 am
Strom Thurmond of South Carolina thundered: “Mallory! [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]
10 Sep 2008, 1:12 am
" Meanwhile, David Winslow invokes Trent Lott and Strom Thurmond: Seriously, nobody with half a brain thinks Obama was referring to Palin. [read post]
15 Jul 2009, 2:52 pm
Even Senator Strom Thurmond, one time presidential candidate of the racist Dixiecrat Party, claimed that he opposed Marshall for the bench because he was a liberal rather than because he was black. [read post]
28 Nov 2010, 1:15 pm
Then-Judge Souter was seemingly prompted by Senator Strom Thurmond to say something in favor of victim impact evidence, but Souter responded blandly by talking about how victims can testify as witnesses and should be eligible for state services. [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]
11 Oct 2020, 6:30 am
For the Balkinization Symposium on Alexander Keyssar, Why Do We Still Have the Electoral College? [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]
7 Mar 2013, 10:08 am
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]
17 Mar 2008, 4:55 am
Other public figures: Jim Bakker, Bob Barr, Gary Condit, Larry Craig, Mark Foley, Newt Gingrich, Rudy Giuliani, Gary Hart, Edward Kennedy, James McGreevey, Wilbur Mills, Bob Packwood, Chuck Robb, Jimmy Swaggart, Strom Thurmond, David Vitter. [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]
22 Mar 2007, 7:16 am
Let us put race aside, notwithstanding what appears to be in the heart of big league Southern leaders like Trent Lott, who wishes the country had followed Strom Thurmond. [read post]
