His motion was filed a day after Disney announced that it was scrapping plans to build a new campus in central Florida and relocate 2,000 employees from Southern California.

Daniel Penny, a white U.S. Marine veteran, was caught on video pinning an agitated Black subway passenger, Jordan Neely, to the floor in a chokehold, which led to Neely’s death.

The Senate’s only Black Republican has made his grandfather’s work in the cotton fields of the Deep South a bedrock of his political identity.