Rourke

[roork]

noun

1. Constance, 1885–1941, U.S. historian and literary critic.

Example Sentences

Maine veteran and oysterman Graham Platner entered the race in August, and his profile has been on a vertical media-darling trajectory that’s beginning to resemble that of Beto O’Rourke in 2018.

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Paxton accused O’Rourke’s group of paying “Beto bribes,” and for weeks, across social media and in press releases, the state attorney general mustered all of his name-calling bravado, claiming that he would put Beto behind bars and shut down his “radical left-wing” organization.

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Fortunately for O’Rourke and for the Constitution, Paxton’s suit has flopped.

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In September, an all-Republican-appointed Texas court ruled unanimously against the Republican, deeming the lawsuit against O’Rourke’s nonprofit a violation of free speech.

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“Two-hundred forty-nine years into this experiment,” O’Rourke told Slate, “this idea that we are a government of, by, and for the people, well, that still stands. And it stands whether the judges are Republicans or Democrats or in Texas or somewhere else. So that really felt good.”

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