and when strom thurman bolted from the democratic party to form the states rights party over the issuegrating the armed services. then we went into the 1950s when we saw the resistance of school integration, when the supreme court handed down brown versus board of education, the decision of 1954, then we came to 1964. when congress passed the civil rights act. strom thurmo strom thurmond and others left the party in response to his opposition to the civil rights act. and we went forward into the 'many 0s over school integration. this has been building for a long, long time, and the american people should tailing a look at what has been going on in this campaign and reflect a bit on our history. and ask ourselves -- do we want to revisit those days? do we want to see the pendulum swing so far to the right as to take us back to relive those days? i don't think so. i think the american people will treat this campaign as we've been treating campaigns now that there's a move toward the future. i would hope that we will make mr. trump and everybody else understand that this is a country that

it relates to senator strom thurman of south carolina. he must have articulated this at some point in his career. but he said, when it comes to an election year like this one, we will stop approving nominations as of the beginning of the political conventions. well, in this year, that's going to be about the middle of july. so if you do the countdown of when we're in session, we have probably five, six weeks left to consider nominations before they die under the unwritten thurman rule. so what the republicans are doing is running out the clock on these 20 people. we shouldn't be surprised. if they would do this on a nomination to fill a vacancy on the highest court of the land, it shouldn't surprise us that they would do the same thing when it comes to these 20 nominees. what are they waiting for? why don't they want to approve these judges? noncontroversial judges. they are waiting in prayerful reflection for the election of donald trump as president. mr. president, you know that many people in your party have mixed feelings about the ca