Despite being fairly conservative for most of his political career, United States Senator Richard Shelby stayed a Democrat well after the party switch in 1964. He did finally cross over to the Republican party in 1994, as the early 90s were common for the last conservative Democrats to finally become members of the GOP.
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(Not So) Fun Fact: Richard Shelby’s Presidential Impeachment Hypocrisy
Alabama Senator Richard Shelby voted to remove Bill Clinton from office during his impeachment trial. He twice did not vote convict Donald Trump.
Fun Fact: First Catholic Supreme Court Justice
Roger B. Taney was the first Catholic Supreme Court Justice, hr was nominated by Andrew Jackson. He’s more infamously remembered for delivering the Dred Scott decision
Fun Fact: Amy Coney Barrett and Antonin Scalia
Years before her nomination to the Supreme Court, future Justice Amy Coney Barrett served as a clerk for Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.
Fun Fact: The Success of Biden’s 2022 Mid Term Elections
The midterms for every modern US president usually sees more losses than gains for their party. But Joe Biden’s midterms unexpectedly became very successful for the president. He’s the first sitting president not to lose a senate seat since Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
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