Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) will go down in history for delivering the longest talking filibuster ever on the Senate floor. Unfortunately for him, he will be remembered for little else. Over the course of his 12 years in the Senate, he has sponsored only one bill that was ultimately signed into law: the Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act of 2022, a measure that passed with near-unanimous support in both chambers of Congress.
In a video posted to X ahead of his pointless verbal marathon captioned “Time to speak up,” Booker said, “I’ve been hearing from people all over my state and indeed all over the nation calling upon folks in Congress to do more, to do things that recognize the urgency, the crisis of the moment. And so we all have a responsibility, I believe, to do something different, to cause, as [late Rep.] John Lewis said, ‘good trouble,’ and that includes me.”
