Warren’s Speech Goes Viral After GOP Tries to Silence Her
- Democrat found to violate a rule against impugning a senator
- McConnell stopped her as she quoted Coretta Scott King letter
Sen. Warren Silenced in Jeff Sessions Debate
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The move by Senate Republicans to bar Democrat Elizabeth Warren from the debate over President Donald Trump’s attorney general nominee, Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions, backfired by generating an online sensation for the Massachusetts senator.
Warren was reading from a 1986 letter attacking Sessions by Coretta Scott King late Tuesday when Republicans invoked a little-used rule to prevent her from continuing. Warren quickly posted a Facebook video with her reading the letter outside the Senate chamber late Tuesday night that drew more than 6.5 million views by midmorning. Other Democrats joined in Wednesday morning, reading portions of the letter on the Senate floor without interruption.