Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) on Tuesday evening said he was sore and tired but grateful after breaking the record for the longest floor speech in Senate history, surpassing the previous mark held by Sen. Strom Thurmond (SC), who filibustered for 24 hours and 18 minutes in opposition to the Civil Rights Act of 1957. “I was very aware of Strom Thurmond’s record since I’d gotten to the Senate,” he told reporters after leaving the chamber. “I always felt that it was a strange shadow to hang over this ins

Sens. Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Ted Cruz (R-TX) clashed Tuesday over the legality of the 2023 protests at Supreme Court justices’ homes, with the latter accusing Democrats of “being silent” about threats to justices. “I am sick and tired of hearing the kind of heated partisan rhetoric, which is one of the reasons why we have such divisions in this country,” Sen. Booker said. “I do enjoy that my colleague from New Jersey raises his voice and says it’s a patent lie and says he’s doing so in defense o