{"id":46106,"date":"2025-04-03T08:40:15","date_gmt":"2025-04-03T15:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.orderlyrandomness.com\/blog\/?p=46106"},"modified":"2025-04-08T08:19:58","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T15:19:58","slug":"filibuster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orderlyrandomness.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/03\/filibuster\/","title":{"rendered":"filibuster!, almost, maybe"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"429\" height=\"593\" src=\"https:\/\/www.orderlyrandomness.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/booker.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-46107\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"\">The <em>longest<\/em> filibuster in US history!  Give it up for the Garden State&#8217;s Democratic Senator, Cory Booker &#8211; 25 hours and 5 minutes on the floor!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/02\/nyregion\/cory-booker-speech-reactions.html\">Finally Some Fire\u2019: Cory Booker\u2019s 25-Hour Speech Strikes a Chord at Home<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/04\/02\/health\/cory-booker-prepared-his-body-speech\/index.html\">How he prepared <\/a>for the record breaking speech.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sen. Cory Booker on His Record-Breaking Speech and the Fight for Democracy on Ari Melber\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-n0Pi4Eenqg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/constitutioncenter.org\/blog\/was-cory-bookers-speech-a-filibuster\">National Constitute Center says <\/a>that &#8220;a public debate [has] started about whether his marathon appearance should count as a true filibuster, or instead as just a long speaking appearance. Most likely, based on the rules of the Senate and tradition, Booker\u2019s efforts will count as the latter, and not as included in the list of classic Senate filibusters&#8221; (Booker could not block or obstruct the vote on Whitaker\u2019s nomination from happening, which is one of the key goals of any filibuster, due to the Senate\u00a0having previously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.govtrack.us\/congress\/votes\/119-2025\/s156\">voted to invoke cloture\u00a0<\/a>for the nomination vote for Whitaker as NATO ambassador.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"639\" height=\"6\" src=\"https:\/\/www.orderlyrandomness.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/banner3.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-45148\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Apologies, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.orderlyrandomness.com\/blog\/wp-admin\/comment.php?action=editcomment&amp;c=9127\">LeI<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.orderlyrandomness.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/07\/expendables\/#comment-9097\">I[7<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.orderlyrandomness.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/07\/expendables\/#comment-9096\">I[3<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.orderlyrandomness.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/07\/expendables\/#comment-9057\">O]4<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.orderlyrandomness.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/03\/leftist-lawfare\/#comment-9028\">LEi<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.orderlyrandomness.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/03\/leftist-lawfare\/#comment-9027\">LeI<\/a> again, I didn&#8217;t realize there were comments stuck in the spam folder for prior posts &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.orderlyrandomness.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/11\/idiot-in-charge\/\">Idiot-In-Charge<\/a>, E<a href=\"https:\/\/www.orderlyrandomness.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/07\/expendables\/\">xpendables<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.orderlyrandomness.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/03\/leftist-lawfare\/\">Leftist Lawfare.<\/a> They are released now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"36\" src=\"https:\/\/www.orderlyrandomness.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/banner2-1024x36.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3462\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.orderlyrandomness.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/banner2-1024x36.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.orderlyrandomness.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/banner2-300x11.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.orderlyrandomness.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/banner2-768x27.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.orderlyrandomness.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/banner2.jpg 1105w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><\/p>\n<div><p align=center><font color=\"#FF0000\">Thank you <font color=\"#FF6347\">for reading <font color=\"#FFA500\">today's post. \r\n<font color=\"#FFD700\">Have <font color=\"00FF00\">an <font color=\"40E0D0\">InterStellar <font color=\"800080\">Day! <font color=\"FE09FF\"> ~PrP   <\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The longest filibuster in US history! Give it up for the Garden State&#8217;s Democratic Senator, Cory Booker &#8211; 25 hours and 5 minutes on the floor! Finally Some Fire\u2019: Cory Booker\u2019s 25-Hour Speech Strikes a Chord at Home How he &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.orderlyrandomness.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/03\/filibuster\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1797,3],"tags":[2495,2493],"class_list":["post-46106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-politix","tag-filibuster","tag-sen-cory-booker-d-n-j"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orderlyrandomness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orderlyrandomness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orderlyrandomness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orderlyrandomness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orderlyrandomness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.orderlyrandomness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orderlyrandomness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orderlyrandomness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orderlyrandomness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}