Eleanor Holmes Norton
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Oct 28, 2026
Robby SoaveHOST
They're too big.
Robby SoaveHOST
This council member, Robert White, is going to be the Eleanor Holmes Norton replacement, so the District of Columbia's representative, the non-voting representative to the government.
Robby SoaveHOST
So getting a little bit of a... promote although actually maybe that gives him less power because You can't you don't really get to vote on anything or do anything as as the DC, you know representative to the government Good for him, I guess I think his legislation is insane Journalist Glenn Greenwald is calling out Brazil's Supreme Court after failed presidential candidate Flavio Bolsonaro's reported decision to leave his country and seek asylum in the U.S. Greenwald accused Brazilian Judge Alexandre de Moraes and the pro-Lula wing of the court going after their political opponents.
Robby SoaveHOST
The journalist writes, quote, Moraes has overseen a system of political persecution masquerading as criminal justice that has been recognized as a sham by multiple countries that are not exactly Bolsonaro allies.
Ben BraschGUEST
I'm sure someone has a law degree somewhere in there and would be able to look at this.
Ben BraschGUEST
But also, Mike, no one's thought about this in a generation and a half because Eleanor Holmes Norton has been there since 1991.
Ben BraschGUEST
So who's had to think about this for three decades? No one.
Ben BraschGUEST
But here we are.
Ben BraschGUEST
Don't worry, like democracy happens.
Ben BraschGUEST
Eventually it goes up for an election and then people get to vote on that person themselves.
Michael SchafferHOST
You know, it struck me following the story that, as you said, Eleanor Holmes Norton has been there since 1991, more than a generation.
Michael SchafferHOST
So this whoopsie about the requirements for winning the office, I think it's like the first of many when we are suddenly being reintroduced to variables about the job that have not been up for debate for a long time because Eleanor Holmes Norton has been there.
Gloria SteinemSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
It's very painful in a lot of ways because academia seems to have accepted, for instance, the idea that the women's movement was a white middle-class movement then, when in fact women of color were the pioneers.
Gloria SteinemSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I mean, that's where I learned feminism, from the National Welfare Rights Organization, from Eleanor Holmes Norton from Flo Kennedy, way disproportionately women of color.
Gloria SteinemSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
But it's a divisive tactic, which unfortunately we've fallen into out of some kind of notion that we're being morally superior if we say that, but actually we're just rendering women of color invisible, you know, if we say that, which is just not historically accurate.
Gloria SteinemSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
So it's going on, this process of disappearing, and going on as we speak, and also in current issues.
Tom SherwoodHOST
So he's not officially the delegate-elect until November 3rd when he's going to—I'm sure he'll win.
Tom SherwoodHOST
And, of course, he's replacing or will replace in January, I think it's January 3rd, Eleanor Holmes Norton, who has been the D.C. delegate to Congress since 1991.
Tom SherwoodHOST
Yeah.
Tom SherwoodHOST
So he's been out campaigning because— As of now, the Democrats are the minority party in Congress, and it's hard enough for an elected member of Congress from around the country to get things done in Washington since Republicans control it if they're a Democrat.
Brian RogersHOST
Not that I think any of these elected officials are watching, but still.
Brian RogersHOST
John Rose of Tennessee, Paul Tonko of New York, Julia Brownlee of California, Jeff Vandrew of New Jersey, Eleanor Holmes Norton, District of Columbia, Jennifer Kiggins of Virginia, Kevin Mullen of California and Mark Veazey of Texas.
Brian RogersHOST
You know, and again, other than Kathy Castor, not a single Florida elected official voted.
Brian RogersHOST
Has come out in support and admittedly haven't come out against it either.
Martin PengellyGUEST
I wrote about this a few times.
Martin PengellyGUEST
His co-chair was Eleanor Holmes Norton.
John FitzpatrickHOST
Yeah.
Martin PengellyGUEST
The DC rep, who's now, like, 90-some, and is finally stepping down because she's too old.
Martin PengellyGUEST
Um, and I know when I moved down here, I immediately got to know her spokesperson.
Martin PengellyGUEST
So I f- I was like, I, [chuckles] I, I called her and was like, "Why, why is Eleanor Holmes Nor- did Eleanor Holmes Norton play?" And it turned out, no.
Martin PengellyGUEST
The answer I was given was that, um, Eleanor Holmes Norton was made aware of everything going on with Howard University women.
John FitzpatrickHOST
Mm-hmm.
Margery EaganHOST
Uh, Joe Biden, uh, in many people's view was impaired, didn't step down.
Jim BraudeHOST
Diane Feinstein, Eleanor Holmes Norton-
Margery EaganHOST
Yeah
Jim BraudeHOST
...
Daniel SchumanGUEST
... or people who are rising up.
Daniel SchumanGUEST
Eleanor Holmes Norton was in line to be the chair of the House Oversight Committee, and she was just not capable of it.
Daniel SchumanGUEST
So sometimes what they do is they layer you, where they give you someone else who actually does the work, but you get to keep the title until you retire.
Daniel SchumanGUEST
That's not great.
Meagan Hatcher-MaysHOST
In the halls of Congress.
Meagan Hatcher-MaysHOST
I used to work for Eleanor Holmes Norton, uh, who is retiring this year.
Meagan Hatcher-MaysHOST
Worked a lot on DC statehood.
Meagan Hatcher-MaysHOST
DC should be the 51st state.
Tom SherwoodHOST
It has to be convenient.
Tom SherwoodHOST
Even Eleanor Holmes Norton on Capitol Hill has talked about how the National Guard-- No, sorry, the, the National Mall.
Junaid GillHOST
Mm-hmm.
Junaid GillHOST
[laughs]
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