{"id":26211,"date":"2017-02-08T14:44:56","date_gmt":"2017-02-08T22:44:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=26211"},"modified":"2017-02-08T14:44:56","modified_gmt":"2017-02-08T22:44:56","slug":"shut-up-liz-shut-up-coretta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/02\/08\/shut-up-liz-shut-up-coretta\/","title":{"rendered":"Shut Up Liz! Shut Up Coretta!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bernie was wrong.  I few days ago, he said that Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) is a very nice guy.  I wrote that I disagreed and that there is nothing nice about McConnell.  The proof is in, and I was right,  Bought Bitch Mitch just told Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Coretta Scott King to STFU!!<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"Warren-McConnell\"Senate Republicans voted on Tuesday night to silence Massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren, who had taken to the floor of the Senate to give a speech opposing the confirmation of Alabama senator Jeff Sessions as attorney general. Warren began reading a letter written in 1986 by the late Coretta Scott King, activist and wife of civil-rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., which was originally written<\/a> in opposition to Sessions\u2019s 1986 nomination to serve as a federal judge. (King\u2019s letter was written to be sent to the Senate, though Senator Strom Thurmond, who was then the chair of the judiciary committee, blocked it from being entered into the congressional record.) In her letter, King wrote, \u201cMr. Sessions has used the awesome powers of his office in a shabby attempt to intimidate and frighten elderly black voters. For this reprehensible conduct, he should not be rewarded with a federal judgeship.\u201d (Sessions\u2019s nomination for the judicial post was ultimately withdrawn amid allegations of past racist comments, some of which he has denied.)<\/p>\n

But Republicans immediately took offense to Warren reading King\u2019s words on the Senate floor. Senator Steve Daines of Montana warned Warren that she was violating Senate rules against impugning another senator. She continued reading King\u2019s letter anyway. \u201cMrs. King’s views and words ring true today,\u201d Warren said<\/a>. \u201cThe integrity of our Justice Department depends on an attorney general who will fight for the rights of all people. An honest evaluation of Jeff Sessions\u2019 record shows that he is not that person.\u201d Civil-rights advocates and lawmakers have expressed concern over Sessions\u2019s record on race and immigration, as well as statements he\u2019s made in the past. Sessions has been criticized<\/a> for calling the N.A.A.C.P. \u201ccommunist-inspired\u201d and \u201cun-American,\u201d and for allegedly calling a black assistant U.S. attorney \u201cboy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Warren\u2019s speech came to a halt when Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell invoked rule XIX, which keeps senators from \u201cdirectly or indirectly, by any form of words impute to another senator or to other senators any conduct or motive unworthy or unbecoming a senator.\u201d Warren, McConnell said, \u201chas impugned the motives and conduct of our colleague from Alabama.\u201d…<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

From <Vanity Fair<\/a>><\/font><\/p>\n

Liz explained it to an MSNBC<\/a> reporter that was not altogether sympathetic.<\/font><\/p>\n