Read the letter that got Elizabeth Warren barred from the Senate floor
The senator from Massachusetts was rebuked for reading a letter written by Coretta Scott King thirty years ago.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren was given a rare Senate rebuke late Tuesday night after she tried to read from a letter written by Coretta Scott King three decades ago criticizing attorney general nominee Sen. Jeff Sessions, who was nominated to be a federal judge at the time.
Warren’s Republican colleagues charged her with violating Senate rules against “impugning the motives” of a fellow senator, and she was forbidden from speaking again about Sessions on the floor of the Senate. A vote on his nomination is expected Wednesday evening, according to the Associated Press.
After the vote silencing her, the senator from Massachusetts read the letter outside.
https://www.facebook.com/senatorelizabethwarren/videos/724337794395383/
Democratic Sen. Tom Udall of New Mexico read the letter on the Senate floor Wednesday morning, saying on Twitter that Warren shouldn’t have been silenced.
.@SenateMajLdr tried to silence Corretta Scott King’s letter abt #Sessions’ civil rights record. We’re making sure she is heard #LetHerSpeak
— Archive: Senator Tom Udall (@SenatorTomUdall) February 8, 2017
New Mexico Sen. Tom Udall begins reading Coretta Scott King’s letter on the Senate floor https://t.co/T5uqoA85rO pic.twitter.com/sunkqrkLe6
— CBS News (@CBSNews) February 8, 2017
Read the full letter below:
https://www.scribd.com/doc/338729265/Scott-King-1986-Letter-and-Testimony-Signed
