By Justin Choi

New Jersey Democratic Senator Cory Booker is still pushing on in his attempts to delay President Donald Trump’s agenda.

For over 18 hours, and continuing, the New Jersey Senator is delivering a marathon speech on the Senate floor, attacking the president’s policies. He addressed concerns about the administration’s attacks on American institutions and the threat to democracy. Senator Booker also brought up the president’s attack on the Department of Education and proposed cuts to Social Security. 

Cory Booker has been elected as Senator since 2013 and has previously run for the Democratic nomination to become president in 2020.

While this is Senator Booker’s first delivering this marathon filibuster-type speech, he has had a history of delivering impactful speeches.

During President Trump’s first term, he spoke out against Brett Kavanaugh during his Supreme Court confirmation hearings. In his “I am Spartacus” moment, he brought up emails that showed Kavanaugh discussing racial profiling after the 9/11 attacks, with him arguing that he was not sure if it was unconstitutional. 

Critics then argued that Booker was merely trying to cause political drama rather than actually make a substantive case against Brett Kavanaugh, who was ultimately confirmed to the Supreme Court of the United States.

This is happening amidst a GOP rebellion in the House over the issue of proxy voting. Representative Anna Paulina Luna (R-Florida) has been leading the bipartisan charge to allow new parents to vote remotely, but her efforts were dismissed by Speaker Mike Johnson. 

But as an act of rebellion, nine Republicans - including Luna - voted with Democrats to approve new parents in Congress to vote remotely for up to 12 weeks.