Senator Elizabeth Warren Silenced On Senate Floor For Reading A Letter From Coretta Scott King!

On Tuesday night, Sen. Elizabeth Warren attempted to read a letter about Jeff Sessions’ fitness to serve in federal government at a hearing on whether Jeff Sessions was fit to serve in federal government. In that letter, written in 1986, Martin Luther King’s widow Coretta Scott King urged the Senate to reject Sessions’ nomination for a federal judgeship, arguing that he had “used the power of his office as United States Attorney to intimidate and chill the free exercise of the ballot by citizens.”

As Warren began to read the letter, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell stopped her, under what is known as Rule XIX, barring senators from ascribing “to another senator or to other senators any conduct or motive unworthy or unbecoming a senator.” Senate Republicans, in a party line vote, then upheld the decision, which prohibits Warren from speaking again in the floor debate until the vote to confirm Sessions as attorney general.

Via New York Daily News. Posted By Abdul