Cory Booker at the moment filibustering at the senate as a protest against the whole trump administration . He is speaking for as long as he is physically able too, as stated by him in the CSPAN clip, https://www.c-span.org/clip/us-senate/sen-cory-booker-d-nj-starts-speaking-in-senate-for-as-long-as-i-am-physically-able/5158775

Here is an article that states why he is on the senate floor if you need clarification https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/31/politics/booker-senate-floor-speech-trump-protest/index.html

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[–] 74 points 1 year ago (21 children)

From the CNN article:

The speech is not a filibuster because Booker is not blocking legislation or a nomination. The Democratic senator’s speech will keep the Senate floor open – and floor staff working as well US Capitol police members detailed to the chamber – for as long as he continues speaking, but lawmakers had concluded voting on Monday before he began his remarks.

So purely performative. Not a filibuster.

I mean if it's a first step and others follow, then good. But why not filibuster a nomination you disapprove? (I have no clue if filibuster applies to a cloture vote. These fucking stooges and their silly made up rules of decorum...)

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  • [–] 31 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Yeah, you don't even need to do the actual talking to do a filibuster, you just essentially need to say you're filibustering. However, there's carveouts for the filibuster for nominations and budget reconciliation (and a bunch of other stuff, conveniently all stuff Republicans like).

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    Yeah, reading about the cloture rules now. Seems like the motion for cloture happened a couple days ago (temporarily ending debate) and it "ripened" today prompting a cloture vote, itself not apparently subject to filibuster. But simple majority is all that's needed on most nominations, and filibuster is limited to 2 hours before the final vote.

    Even that will be performative.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    So what happens if the Senate wants to schedule a vote right now? He's not preventing a specific bill, but they can't really do anything until he gives up the floor. It's not nothing.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Yeah, the Senate doesn't seem to publish plans in advance, so it's not really possible to do more than wonder.

    I've had the livestream running since I got up today and it's good to hear the words from the senators "asking questions".

    And there's a whopping 11,437 people watching it on YouTube, so I'll be one of almost no one that hears more than a few sound bytes.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    FWIW I think the counts are spread out by channels.

    Coey's channel has 68K viewers. AP CNN and others I'm sure have other viewers

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    [–] 49 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    Watch it live here.

    He was just reading letter after letter after letter from American seniors who are scared about what the administration might do to Social Security. Really helps bring home that these are real people who are affected.

    Edit: 15 hours now and he's still going strong. He just gave a fiery speech about how his colleagues need to do more.

    Edit: 25 hours. He beat the record. At least it won't be held by a racist anymore.

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  • [–] 36 points 1 year ago

    Wait, Cory Booker has some pepper?

    That’s Great!

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  • [–] 28 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Still going on after 13 hours

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  • [–] 28 points 1 year ago

    good job, just keep it up for 3.7 years

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  • Hell yuh. I have had misgivings about Booker at times in the past but I have to say, good on him, this is the time for such things.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    I'm not trying to be a nay-sayer, but what does this actually achieve?

    He's not disrupting a vote. He's only talking. While I'm all for the Democrats doing something this doesn't actually achieve much. Chick Schumer had a chance to actually disrupt this administration but he didn't.

    So I am genuinely asking, if the Democrats are not preventing the Trump administration from pushing bills through e.g if this were a fillibuster,, how does this help?

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    Hopefully messing with the apathy in the US. The mainstream media is talking about it. And even though it isn’t a filibuster. Strom Thurmond filibustered bs rhetoric against civil rights in the 50’s for a little over 24 hours and people are talking about that so he is kind of making some history. Am basically hoping he is causing more momentum. The system needs fucking changing but we need to come together for that to happen.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    It makes it look like democrats are willing to use the filibuster, while not actually blocking anything that might upset their donors.

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    Just a couple more minutes to beat Storm Thurmond's record!

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    Thank you, Senator Booker!

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Does the Trump administration need the senate? Seems they’re doing whatever they want regardless of any checks or balances, so who is this actually disrupting?

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Get outta here with that negativity. It's the first sign of life from Senate Democrats, and taking a moral stance against Trump is still important. We need more of this, not less.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago*

    They’re doing plenty more than this, but they’re not self-promoting enough for people to notice. Democrats voted and spoke out against Trump’s cabinet nominations, forced a 15-day vote against Trump’s executive order, confirmed Biden’s pending judicial appointments when Republican attendance is low, and are the ones bringing these cases to the courts.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    This is to obstruct fast-tracked appointments by Trump according to C-SPAN. Other than that, you’re right.

    The Democrats forced a 15-day vote against Trump’s emergency executive order, and Republicans redefined the entire congressional calendar as a single day, just to avoid holding the vote.

    Every last Republican in Congress is complicit.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Booker, not Brooks? Autocorrect?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Oh hey look, someone actually doing something lol

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