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The Green Feather Movement was a series of college protests directed against McCarthyism at the height of the Red Scare in the United States. The movement arose in response to an attempt to censor Robin Hood because of its alleged communist connotations and eventually spread to universities across the nation.
Welch's TV performance turned the tide of public and press opinion against McCarthy overnight. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] In July, a Republican senator introduced a motion, which passed later that year, censuring McCarthy for acts that "tended to bring the Senate into dishonor and disrepute, to obstruct the constitutional processes of the Senate, and to ...
The 22nd Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (passed by Congress in 1947 and ratified by the states in 1951) imposes a limit of two terms on presidents. [ b ] Prior to the term limit, an informal two-term tradition was generally followed by many presidents after a precedent set by President George Washington , who chose not to run for reelection ...
McCarthy headed the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations in 1953 and 1954, and during that time, used it for a number of his communist-hunting investigations. McCarthy first examined allegations of communist influence in the Voice of America, and then turned to the overseas library program of the State Department.
New York, in which Benjamin Gitlow was arrested for violating a state law against inciting anarchy and violence when he distributed literature promoting communism. [28] Although the Supreme Court did not overturn Gitlow's conviction, it adopted the ACLU's stance (later termed the incorporation doctrine ) that the First Amendment freedom of ...
Good, who chairs the hard-right House Freedom Caucus, told his supporters that he is former Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s top target, as McCarthy looks to take down the small group of Republicans who ...
California Rep. Kevin McCarthy is the first House speaker to be removed from post. What the history of the motion to vacate portends for the GOP without him, per historian Thomas Balcerski.
Reading the Constitution aloud, reciting the Pledge of Allegiance over and over, denouncing socialism — these are empty, demoralizing displays of patriotism by House Republicans.