Cory Booker is giving a marathon speech on the Senate floor. Why and how long can it last?

U.S. Sen. Cory Booker has kicked disconnected what helium promises to beryllium a marathon code connected the Senate floor.

Starting astatine 7 p.m. ET connected Monday, Booker began criticizing President Donald Trump and Elon Musk.

"I’m heading to the Senate level due to the fact that Donald Trump and Elon Musk person shown a implicit disregard for the regularisation of law, the Constitution, and the needs of the American people," Booker posted connected X earlier successful the day.

"I americium not going to halt speaking, I americium not going to halt standing," helium said. "I americium going to spell for arsenic agelong arsenic I'm physically capable to go."

Once helium took the Senate floor, Booker said the president has "inflicted truthful overmuch harm connected Americans’ safety, fiscal stability, the halfway foundations of our democracy."

“I emergence contiguous due to the fact that I judge sincerely that our state is successful crisis," helium said.

Meanwhile connected Sunday, Trump said helium was superior about pursuing a 3rd word successful office, adjacent though the nation's highest bureau is limited to 2 terms by the U.S. Constitution.

Talking to NBC News Sunday, Trump pointed to his canvass numbers arsenic grounds that "a batch of radical would similar maine to" clasp bureau for different term. Trump's support ratings for his archetypal fewer weeks successful bureau are immoderate of the worst successful modern history, beating lone his ain successful 2017.

Here's what we cognize astir Booker's marathon speech, however agelong it could spell and wherefore it isn't technically a filibuster.

Who is Cory Booker?

Cory Booker is U.S. Senator who has represented New Jersey since 2013, erstwhile helium became the archetypal Black idiosyncratic to clasp the seat.

The D.C. autochthonal and Democrat who was raised successful New Jersey completed his undergraduate and master’s grade astatine Stanford University and graduated from Yale Law School successful 1997. He antecedently served arsenic the politician of Newark betwixt 2006 and 2013.

Is Cory Booker's code a filibuster?

Cory Booker's code is not considered a filibuster arsenic helium is not attempting to delaying a authorities oregon a information from passing.

How agelong tin Cory Booker clasp the Senate floor?

Though lawmakers finished voting connected Monday, the Senate level volition stay unfastened for arsenic agelong arsenic his remarks last.

How to ticker Cory Booker's marathon speech?

Senator Booker's code tin beryllium watched connected C-SPAN, arsenic good arsenic societal media platforms X, Facebook and YouTube.

How communal are marathon Senate speeches?

Lengthy speeches and controlling the level person agelong been a means of protestation successful the precocious chamber.

In 2017, Democratic Oregon Sen. Jeff Merkey spoke for 15 hours, 26 minutes against the information of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court. In 2013, Republican Texas Sen. Ted Cruz spoke for 21 hours and 19 minutes against the Affordable Care Act, according to the Senate Information office.

Former South Carolina Sen. Strom Thurman filibustered for implicit 24 hours successful an effort to forestall the transition of the Civil Rights Act successful 1957. The code is the longest successful the Senate record, breaking the erstwhile grounds of erstwhile Sen. Wayne Morse astatine implicit 22 hours.

Contributing: James Powel, Kinsey Crowley

This nonfiction primitively appeared connected USA TODAY: Cory Booker's marathon code connected Senate floor: What to know.