{"id":30397,"date":"2018-09-06T11:05:10","date_gmt":"2018-09-06T16:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/?p=30397"},"modified":"2018-09-06T11:05:10","modified_gmt":"2018-09-06T16:05:10","slug":"cory-booker-may-be-thrown-out-of-the-us-senate-for-standing-up-to-republicans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/06\/cory-booker-may-be-thrown-out-of-the-us-senate-for-standing-up-to-republicans\/","title":{"rendered":"Cory Booker May Be Thrown Out of the US Senate For Standing Up to Republicans."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Holy moly. Every day you can make a list of which is the most important news story of the day, but if you do, put it on 3&#215;5 Index Cards so you can keep re-arranging it.<\/p>\n<p>Booker released a chunk of the secreted Kavanaugh documents, possibly breaking a Senate rule. Breaking that rule, if he did break it, can result in his expulsion from the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>When confronted with that prospect by Republican leaders, with Kavanaugh looking on and making funny faces, Booker said, &#8220;Bring it!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Does this qualify as a constitutional crisis? It probably would if Booker is thrown out of the Senate and a few thousand citizen show up to put him back in the Senate.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.theplatform.com\/p\/7wvmTC\/MSNBCEmbeddedOffSite?guid=n_hallie_brk_booker_180906\" height=\"500\" width=\"635\" scrolling=\"no\" border=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Holy moly. Every day you can make a list of which is the most important news story of the day, but if you do, put it on 3&#215;5 Index Cards so you can keep re-arranging it. Booker released a chunk of the secreted Kavanaugh documents, possibly breaking a Senate rule. Breaking that rule, if he &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/06\/cory-booker-may-be-thrown-out-of-the-us-senate-for-standing-up-to-republicans\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cory Booker May Be Thrown Out of the US Senate For Standing Up to Republicans.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30400,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5026],"tags":[5555,5557,5556,306,558],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/BookervsTrump_NotLaughintAnymore_Greg_Laden_Blog.png?fit=643%2C216&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-7Uh","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30397"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30397"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30401,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30397\/revisions\/30401"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}