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Introducing an anti-slavery resolution deemed to be incendiary, and violation of the gag rule prohibiting discussion of slavery. 1856 Laurence M. Keitt: Democratic: South Carolina: 106–96 Assisting in the caning of Charles Sumner. 1864 Benjamin G. Harris: Maryland: 98–20 Making statements in support of the Confederate rebellion. Alexander ...
Alcee Lamar Hastings (/ ˈ æ l s iː / AL-see; September 5, 1936 – April 6, 2021) was an American politician and former judge from the state of Florida.. Hastings was nominated to the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida by President Jimmy Carter in August 1979.
The United States Constitution gives the Senate the power to expel any member by a two-thirds vote. [1] This is distinct from the power over impeachment trials and convictions that the Senate has over executive and judicial federal officials: the Senate ruled in 1798 that senators could not be impeached, but only expelled, while debating the impeachment trial of William Blount, who had already ...
Florida's current congressional delegation in the 119th Congress consists of its two senators, both of whom are Republicans, and its 28 representatives: 18 Republicans, 8 Democrats, and 2 vacancies. Per the 2020 United States census, Florida gained one new congressional seat starting in the 2022 midterms. [2]
Rep. Ayanna Pressley will reintroduce H.R. 40, federal legislation to study reparations for slavery, on Wednesday as the Trump administration leads a wide-scale rollback of diversity, equity and ...
The Amnesty Act of 1872 is a United States federal law passed on May 22, 1872, which removed most of the penalties imposed on former Confederates by the Fourteenth Amendment, adopted on July 9, 1868. Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment prohibits the election or appointment to any federal or state office of any person who had held any of ...
Still, most of the Black Republicans in Congress have come out against Florida’s new Black history curriculum, including South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott, one of DeSantis's challengers for the GOP ...
In January 1840, the House of Representatives passed the Twenty-first Rule, which greatly changed the nature of the fight: it prohibited even the reception of anti-slavery petitions and was a standing House rule. Before, the pro-slavery forces had to struggle to impose a gag before the anti-slavery forces got the floor.