Senate GOP's effort to shut Warren up backfires

[RandySF]

Washington (CNN)The Senate has silenced Elizabeth Warren.

And by doing so, majority Republicans just handed the liberal firebrand a megaphone -- further elevating President Donald Trump's fiercest and most prominent critic in the Senate and turning her into a Democratic hero.

"They can shut me up, but they can't change the truth," Warren later told CNN's Don Lemon.

The rebuke of Warren came as the Massachusetts Democrat read a letter that Coretta Scott King, the widow of Martin Luther King Jr., had written 30 years ago opposing the nomination of Jeff Sessions for a federal judgeship.

Sessions -- now an Alabama senator -- is Trump's nominee for attorney general. Warren opposes him, and cited King's letter to members of the Senate Judiciary Committee in 1986. "Mr. Sessions has used the awesome power of his office to chill the free exercise of the vote by black citizens in the district he now seeks to serve as a federal judge," King wrote then.


http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/07/politics/elizabeth-warren-silenced/index.html

[Dawson Leery]

1. That silly little under-sampled poll means nothing now.

[pkdu]

2. Its fucking "Black History Month" you racist shit..

oh and you are about 15 degrees off with the salute

[cilla4progress]

3. That pinhead has KKK

written all over it

[ProudLib72]

4. I'm hoping this is kept in the news cycle

for more than just a few days. In fact, I'm hoping this creates some protests over the next couple of weeks. The focus should be all about how reprehensible the turtle's behavior was.