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There are documented instances of elected and appointed politicians accused of or convicted for sex offenses, including some involving minors — for example, Rep. Anthony Weiner served a 21-month sente...
Southern white voters began a measurable, decades-long shift from the Democratic Party toward the Republican Party starting in the mid-20th century, with as parties realigned over civil rights and sta...
Available reporting documents multiple instances in which Republican politicians or Republican-aligned staff were prosecuted or convicted for sexual crimes involving minors or child sexual material — ...
Executive Summary The evidence collected identifies several widely cited, notable U.S. Senate filibusters spanning the 20th and 21st centuries, with recurring examples including Strom Thurmond’s prolo...
The filibuster grew from an 1806 procedural change that removed the “previous question,” creating in practice a Senate tradition of unlimited debate that minority senators could exploit to delay or bl...
The central claim is correct in broad outline: , and Strom Thurmond’s formal change in 1964 is a canonical example of that shift. Contemporary scholarship and historical summaries in the supplied anal...
The analyses collectively identify a set of repeatedly cited across sources: Strom Thurmond’s 1957 marathon against the Civil Rights Act, Wayne Morse’s and Alfonse D’Amato’s multi‑day speeches, and se...
The filibuster in the U.S. Senate is an evolving set of practices that long predates the 20th century and has been repeatedly reshaped by rule changes, strategic innovations, and partisan incentives; ...
Most historians and political scientists say civil rights laws of the 1960s were a major catalyst — not the only cause — for the long-term shift of many white Southern voters and some politicians away...
Southern Democrats were the principal congressional bloc resisting major civil‑rights legislation in the 1960s: they largely opposed early federal measures in 1957–60, mounted a prolonged Senate filib...
The Anti‑Drug Abuse Act of 1986 was not the work of a single author but the product of a fast‑moving, bipartisan legislative drive in the 99th Congress that produced companion House and Senate bills a...
The Senate filibuster evolved from unlimited debate in the 18th–19th centuries into a modern cloture-driven tool that requires 60 votes to end debate for most matters after key rule changes in 1917 an...
The claim asks which Southern Democrats voted for the Civil Rights Act of 1964; the sourced analyses show that a small number of Southern Democrats broke with much of their regional delegation to supp...
The materials provided do not produce a definitive count of how many Republican U.S. senators were elected from states that are “traditionally Democratic” since 1990; the sources document individual r...