Tribe: McConnell's outrageous silencing of Warren takes us a dangerous step toward autocracy

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Commentary from Laurence Tribe this morning:

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1/When Trump equates our errors with how Putin deals with political opponents, we should reflect on how Sen. Warren's critique of

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2/ Jeff Sessions would go down in Putin's Russia. Then reflect on how McConnell's outrageous silencing of Warren takes us a dangerous step

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3/ toward autocracy and a society we won't recognize unless we stop this scary slide down a very slippery slope

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1/ Applying Senate Rule 19 to prevent a Senator from impugning the character of a fellow Senator who is up for confirmation as AG is

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2/ a perversion of Rule 19, an abdication of the Senate's Advise & Consent duty, and a threat to DOJ's role in enforcing the rule of law

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1. This use of the rule would apply to comments

from the Senate floor on any sitting Senator or Vice President (who is President of the Senate). Think about that for a moment during a Presidential campaign for example.

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2. McConnell is a fucking traitor. He is actively betraying his country.

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3. It'll take lawyers like Tribe and our judiciary to save our nation. (eom)

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4. Here are the good little trump boot lickers..

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So which pubs didn't?