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[4] [5] [6] Historians have suggested since the 1980s that as McCarthy's involvement was less central than that of others, a different and more accurate term should be used instead that more accurately conveys the breadth of the phenomenon, and that the term McCarthyism is, in the modern day, outdated.
In fact, by the time of McCarthy's speech only about 65 of the employees mentioned in the Byrnes letter were still with the State Department, and all of these had undergone further security checks. [71] At the time of McCarthy's speech, communism was a significant concern in the United States.
Washington, D.C. local elections, such as Mayor and Councilmen, restored after a 100-year gap in Georgetown, and a 190-year gap in the wider city, ending Congress's policy of local election disfranchisement started in 1801 in this former portion of Maryland – see: D.C. Home rule. 1974. A challenge to felony disenfranchisement, Richardson v.
In an act of modern McCarthyism, Kentucky's GOP leaders aim to erase the already few Black people in education through racist, anti-DEI measures. OPINION: Kentucky leader's racist attacks on DEI ...
In May the Jan. 6 committee asked McCarthy and four other Republican House members to give depositions as the committee looked into the riot that took place that day on Capitol Hill, during which ...
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., has reportedly given Fox News host Tucker Carlson exclusive access to thousands of hours of security footage recorded during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the ...
After asking a witness, at McCarthy's request, if a photo entered as evidence "came from a pixie", he defined "pixie" as "a close relative of a fairy". [55] Though "pixie" was a camera-model name at the time, the comparison to "fairy," a derogatory term for a homosexual man, had clear implications.
McCarthy, who now represents Clovis and other parts of Fresno County in his newly drawn District 20, knows that the court could overturn Obergefell just as quickly it did with Roe.