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What is #handsoffhervote and what to know about SAVE act backlash

Star Gazette 02 Apr 2025
If the SAVE Act goes into effect, those looking to vote will have to show either their U.S. passport or birth certificate as proof of citizenship.How does the SAVE Act affect women's right to vote?.
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Commentary: Pass the CARE Act to protect incarcerated mothers and their infants

Times Union 02 Apr 2025
That’s why New York must pass the Compassionate and Reproductive Equity (CARE) Act to protect the health care rights of a very vulnerable population ... New York must pass the CARE Act to break the cycle of harm for incarcerated mothers and infants.
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Cory Booker’s 24-Hour Speech Breaks Longest US Senate Speech Record

Colombia One 02 Apr 2025
The New Jersey Democratic senator has surpassed a record held since 1957 by South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond, a segregationist who opposed the Civil Rights Act ... “You think we got civil rights one ...
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With a nod to America's civil rights legacy, Sen. Cory Booker makes a mark of ...

Times Union 02 Apr 2025
In doing so, Booker of New Jersey broke the record for longest Senate floor speech, a mark that had belonged for decades to Strom Thurmond, the avowed segregationist from South Carolina who filibustered the Civil Rights Act of 1957.
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'History!' Internet explodes as Booker takes segregationist senator 'off the record books'

Alternet 02 Apr 2025
... Act of 1957 ... Strom Thurmond voted against the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act, AND supported Jim Crow laws,” and that his record “was just broken by a Black man, my good friend Cory Booker.
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With a nod to America’s civil rights legacy, Sen. Cory Booker makes a mark of ...

Wtop 02 Apr 2025
In doing so, Booker of New Jersey broke the record for longest Senate floor speech, a mark that had belonged for decades to Strom Thurmond, the avowed segregationist from South Carolina who filibustered the Civil Rights Act of 1957.
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Laurence Fox's complaint against TV star Narinder Kaur is dropped by police after he accused ...

The Daily Mail 02 Apr 2025
A lawyer acting for the TV star - who has waived her right to anonymity as an alleged victim of a sexual offence - has accused Fox of diverting vital police resources away from other criminal investigations.
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‘Being Maria’ – and Being Marlon, Too

The Village Voice 02 Apr 2025
What’s interesting is that she continued in the scene to act.” ... Right, yes ... [Laughs.] He used to say, “All right, Marlon.” He used to call me Marlon because I was kind of already displaying some tendency toward quote-unquote Method acting.
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Explained: The Waqf (Amendment) Bill, 2024

Bihar Times 02 Apr 2025
The objective of the Waqf (Amendment) Bill, 2024, is to amend the Waqf Act, 1995, to redress the issues and challenges in regulating and managing Waqf properties ... The Waqf Act, 1995, and its 2013 amendment have not been effective ... Name of the Act..
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Cory Booker's anti-Trump manifesto breaks record for longest Senate floor speech

Raw Story 02 Apr 2025
Strom Thurmond (D-SC) in 1957 to protest the passage of an early version of the Civil Rights Act ... more expansive civil rights bill in 1964 and continued to serve in the Senate until he died in 2003.
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Democrat Breaks Record For Longest US Senate Speech With Remarks Opposing Trump Policies

Huffington Post 02 Apr 2025
Thurmond previously set the record for the longest Senate speech, at 24 hours and 18 minutes in length, in opposition to the Civil Rights Act of 1957. He was a Democrat at the time but later left the party due to its embrace of civil rights.
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As legislative session winds down, advocates press for vote on religious liberty bill

Athens Banner-Herald 02 Apr 2025
Ed Setzler, R-Acworth, who said Georgia should join 39 other states with a Religious Freedom Restoration Act ... The federal Civil Rights Act prohibits discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex or national origin.
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Cory Booker Says Voters ‘Very Understandably’ Angry at Democrats Inspired His Record Filibuster | Video

The Wrap 02 Apr 2025
She also noted that the previous filibuster record-holder was segregationist Strom Thurmond, the South Carolina Senator who spoke for 24 hours in an attempt to kill the 1957 Civil Rights Act.
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New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker speaks through the night to protest Trump’s agenda

The Vindicator 02 Apr 2025
According to the Senate’s website, the record for the longest individual speech belongs to Strom Thurmond of South Carolina, who filibustered for 24 hours and 18 minutes against the Civil Rights Act of 1957.
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Cory Booker quotes Bob Uecker's famous line during marathon chamber speech

Herald Times Reporter 02 Apr 2025
... the sweeping policies of President Donald Trump eclipsed the previous record for the longest floor speech — Strom Thurmond's 1957 speech against the Civil Rights Act that lasted 24 hours, 18 minutes.
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