To secure Midwestern Republican votes for the Civil Rights Act of 1957, Lyndon B. Johnson extended jury trial rights to striking railroad union workers

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Kash Patel directed an FBI investigation into Nikki Floris and Bradley Benavides the day after Donald Trump delivered a July 16 speech discussing 2020 election interference

Alaska Governor Mike Dunleavy ordered an investigation into alleged election manipulation in the Alaska United States Senate race

Carlton Davis served as special counsel to the United States Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia under United States Attorney Jeanine Pirro

Lyndon B. Johnson's two immediate predecessors as Senate Majority Leader both lost their United States Senate seats in reelection campaigns

President Lyndon B. Johnson spearheaded the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965

United States Ambassador to the United Nations Andrew Young was forced to resign in 1979 after holding an unauthorized meeting with the Palestine Liberation Organization

Lyndon B. Johnson arranged campaign funding from Texas oil executives for United States senators seeking reelection

Lyndon B. Johnson scheduled a vote on a federal dam between Idaho and Oregon to secure Western senators' votes for the Civil Rights Act of 1957

Lyndon B. Johnson's two immediate predecessors as Senate Democratic Leader each lost their subsequent Senate re-election campaigns

Cenk Uygur released a political advertisement in the Michigan Senate race supporting candidate Abdul El-Sayed against Mike Rogers

Biographer Robert Caro interviewed former Georgia Senator Herman Talmadge regarding Lyndon B. Johnson's early civil rights views

The Civil Rights Act of 1957 retained jury trial guarantees for Southern election officials, avoiding a Southern Democratic filibuster

The Civil Rights Act of 1957 retained jury trial protections for Southern election officials, preventing a Southern filibuster

Dan J. Sullivan registered as a Republican on the day Dan J. Sullivan filed to run against incumbent Republican Dan S. Sullivan in the Alaska Senate race

In 1957, after Senator Estes Kefauver voted against Lyndon B. Johnson on a legislative motion, Johnson assigned a coveted Foreign Relations Committee seat to Senator John F. Kennedy

To win Western senatorial support for the Civil Rights Act of 1957, Lyndon B. Johnson permitted a vote on a federal dam between Idaho and Oregon

Senate Majority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson established a standard practice of barring bills from the floor until a unanimous consent agreement was approved

Lyndon B. Johnson added a provision to the Civil Rights Act of 1957 ensuring Black citizens the right to serve on federal juries

In 1957, Lyndon B. Johnson bypassed Senator Estes Kefauver and assigned a vacant Senate Foreign Relations Committee seat to John F. Kennedy

Lyndon B. Johnson established a precedent of barring bills from the United States Senate floor until unanimous consent agreements had been negotiated