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The Republican majority in the United States Senate just censored the words of civil rights leader Coretta Scott King, the wife of Martin Luther King.
Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren was reading a scathing letter that Mrs. King wrote about the judicial nomination of Senator Jeff Sessions back in the 1980s.
King’s letter blasted Sessions for “using the power of his office as United States Attorney to intimidate and chill the free exercise of the ballot.”
That was too much for GOP Senator Leader Mitch McConnell, who accused Warren of violating Senate rules that prohibit attacking other members of the Senate. A vote was held, and Warren was effectively silenced for the rest of the debate.
Yes, the United States Senate just ruled that Coretta Scott King is simply too offensive to be heard from.
Karoli Kuns at Crooks and Liars has the video of the moment Warren was shut down:
It’s ironic, to say the least, that in a debate about whether Jeff Sessions is a racist, Republican Senators found it necessary to silence the widow of civil rights hero Martin Luther King, herself a civil rights icon.
It’s also a bit of a joke that Republican Senators are hiding behind Senate rules in order to protect Sessions from very real allegations of using his office to suppress the vote of minorities. No other nominee gets the special snowflake treatment that Sessions is getting due to his position as a sitting senator. If Sessions can’t be criticized for things he may have done, because he’s a Senator, then he shouldn’t be nominated in the first place. Nominees need to be vetted. And they shouldn’t be permitted to hide behind Senate rules.
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