Elizabeth Warren Barred From Reading Coretta Scott King Letter About Jeff Sessions On Senate Floor
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flacaltenn
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It's a Senate CONFIRMATION DEBATE.. How else do you cover the history of a candidate if you cannot bring into evidence SIGNIFICANT testimonials. Only REALLY by denying the significance of MLK and his wife.
Repubs are so darn stupid for picking these fights. That's why I have ZERO sympathy for them. They play at this like a game they really don't like. Because the REAL GAME would have been to DEBATE the merits of that testimonial. And refute the significance of it if you could. You are NEVER pressed for time to do that. You just have to work HARDER and LONGER.. .Something neither side seems capable of...
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I bet you'd shit your pants if trump's tweeter account is revoked in the name of national security. Which, BTW, is a very good idea.
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Wow, the fake Indian who LIED to get a racial preference was blocked from openly slandering a fellow Senator on the floor of the Senate?
She ought to be censured and stripped of all Senate positions for her vile behavior.
She ought to be censured and stripped of all Senate positions for her vile behavior.
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I posted this earlier today:
Senator Brown was just on floor reading Coretta Scott King letter that got Warren into trouble.
Senator's Merkley and Udall did same thing. No GOP response.
flacaltenn
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Actually Repubs took the cheap way out here. Should have MADE the case for the merits and actual significance in debate.
All I know on Warren is she did violate the rules. I don't know that there were any differences in how the others read it, so on the surface it sounds ridiculous it wasn't consistently enforced.
Sounds political for sure, but your implication it's her sex just makes me laugh at you. She's been a rabid moonbat leftist, and I am saying it totally sounds political. But I'm tired of you ******* stupid Democrats bringing bigotry into every conversation. All I can tell you is put some ointment on that butt hurt and learn to say President Trump. But you're a ******* partisan, moonbat idiot for having to bring misogyny into this
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Yep most people didn't even know who the hell she was, until NOW, she just got her profile raised which is exactly what she wanted, now she gets to play the free speech Martyr card AND attach MLK's widows name to her own.Fauxcahontis is a perennial whiner no one but her wacko base gives a shit what she saysOh yeah, that's a better strategy, let Senator Warren go out and cry foul to the press that she was censored before ever being allowed to open her mouth, that'll play better with the public.
Just about everything they do is a waste of time (other peoples) and money (other peoples), so yeah, I'm all for shutting the Senate down and sending all the assholes home for say 51.5 weeks out of the year, however this case is infinitesimally minute by comparison to the REAL time and money wasting exercises that go on in the Senate and thus wasn't worth the Republicans getting a PR Black Eye over.
Senator Dingbat pulled a two'fer with a big assist from Mitch McConnell.
You do not know as FACT that it is mere opinion of Mrs. King's and was not followed through by the committee as much as I don't know as FACT, that it was....
I am certain we could probably find out one way or another by delving in to the congressional records....if we had the time.
but my best guess, is this letter was RESEARCHED by the Senators because it was THEIR JOB to do so in their vetting of him....
And I am certain Republicans at the time would have presented facts showing she was a liar, if it was not true....
but instead, they voted against him becoming a federal judge.
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The rule that silenced Elizabeth Warren for reading King? It was created after a 1902 fistfight on the Senate floor. http://wapo.st/2kSmDIZ
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It had nothing to do with the letter... it was because Warren was on the floor continually slamming a colleague.
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if you can't prove your claim that it was researched and deemed true then it is by definition opinion and allegation
That you assume it was researched means less than nothing
It was because she has been an extremist moonbat, not her sex, putz. Sure that's political, a fair charge, but sexism? Just groan over you stupid Democrats. You took an issue you had a point on and took the chance to make yourself look more stupid than the people you were criticizing
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Read Coretta Scott King's Letter That Got Sen. Elizabeth Warren Silenced
Read Coretta Scott King's Letter That Got Sen. Elizabeth Warren Silenced
"Thank you for allowing me this opportunity to express my
strong opposition to the nomination of Jefferson Sessions for
federal district judgeship for the Southern District of Alabama.
My longstanding commitment which I shared with my husband,
Martin, to protect and enhance the rights of Black Americans,
rights which include equal access toithe democratic process,
compels me to testify today.
Civil rights leaders, including my husband and Albert
Turner, have fought long and hard to achieve free and unfettered
access to the ballot box. 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.
This simply cannot be allowed to happen. Mr. Sessions
conduct as U.S. Attorney, from his politically-motivated voting
fraud prosecutions to his indifference toward criminal violations
of civil rights laws, indicates that he lacks the temperament,
fairness and judgment to be a federal judge.
The Voting Rights Act was, and still is, vitally important
to the future of democracy in the United States.
<snip>
A person who has exhibited so much hostility to the enforcement of those laws, and thus, to the exercise of those rights by Black people should not be elevated to the federal bench.
The irony of Mr. Sessions' nomination is that, if
confirmed, he will be given life tenure for doing with a
federal prosecution what the local sherifls accomplished
twenty years ago with clubs and cattle prods.
Twenty years ago, when we marched from Selma to Montgomery, the fear of
voting was real, as the broken bones and bloody heads in
Selma and Marion bore witness. As my husband wrote at the
time, "it was net just a sick imagination that conjured up
the vision of a public official. sworn to uphold the law,
who forced an inhuman march upon hundreds of Negro children;
who ordered the Rev. James Bevel to be chained to his
sickbed; who clubbed a Negro woman registrant. and who
callously inflicted repeated brutalities and indignities
upon nonviolent Negroes peacefully petitioning for their
constitutional right to vote..."
The bolded part is what McConnell cited as his objection when invoking the rule to gag her.
Read Coretta Scott King's Letter That Got Sen. Elizabeth Warren Silenced
"Thank you for allowing me this opportunity to express my
strong opposition to the nomination of Jefferson Sessions for
federal district judgeship for the Southern District of Alabama.
My longstanding commitment which I shared with my husband,
Martin, to protect and enhance the rights of Black Americans,
rights which include equal access toithe democratic process,
compels me to testify today.
Civil rights leaders, including my husband and Albert
Turner, have fought long and hard to achieve free and unfettered
access to the ballot box. 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.
This simply cannot be allowed to happen. Mr. Sessions
conduct as U.S. Attorney, from his politically-motivated voting
fraud prosecutions to his indifference toward criminal violations
of civil rights laws, indicates that he lacks the temperament,
fairness and judgment to be a federal judge.
The Voting Rights Act was, and still is, vitally important
to the future of democracy in the United States.
<snip>
A person who has exhibited so much hostility to the enforcement of those laws, and thus, to the exercise of those rights by Black people should not be elevated to the federal bench.
The irony of Mr. Sessions' nomination is that, if
confirmed, he will be given life tenure for doing with a
federal prosecution what the local sherifls accomplished
twenty years ago with clubs and cattle prods.
Twenty years ago, when we marched from Selma to Montgomery, the fear of
voting was real, as the broken bones and bloody heads in
Selma and Marion bore witness. As my husband wrote at the
time, "it was net just a sick imagination that conjured up
the vision of a public official. sworn to uphold the law,
who forced an inhuman march upon hundreds of Negro children;
who ordered the Rev. James Bevel to be chained to his
sickbed; who clubbed a Negro woman registrant. and who
callously inflicted repeated brutalities and indignities
upon nonviolent Negroes peacefully petitioning for their
constitutional right to vote..."
The bolded part is what McConnell cited as his objection when invoking the rule to gag her.
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30 years ago that letter by MLK's widow was tucked away by the Dixiecrat bigot Strom Thurmond, who was supposed to officially enter into the Congressional record -- but the bastard OOpps disappeared it.
It should have been part of the Congressional record long ago, but for the GOP bastard. At long last, it finally is part of the record, and everyone should read it.
It should have been part of the Congressional record long ago, but for the GOP bastard. At long last, it finally is part of the record, and everyone should read it.
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"Black Belt voter fraud case in Alabama shaped Sen. Jeff Sessions' career"
"In 1985, when he was U.S. Attorney in Mobile, Sessions’ office brought indictments over allegations of voter fraud in a number of Black Belt counties, an area in Alabama named for the color of the soil but with a majority black population.
In Perry County, Sessions’ office charged three individuals with voting fraud, including Albert Turner, a long-time civil rights activist who advised Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. and helped lead the voting rights March in Selma on March 7, 1965, known as "Bloody Sunday" after state troopers and a local posse attacked the protestors.
Prosecutors alleged that Turner, his wife Evelyn, and activist Spencer Hogue altered ballots for a Sept. 1984 primary election.
Robert Turner, Albert’s brother and an attorney in Marion, Ala., said in a phone interview Friday that the defendants – later known as the Marion Three – were trying to assist poor and elderly voters in casting ballots. In some cases, the defendants said they were helping illiterate voters mark their ballots, and only altered ballots when requested."
A jury acquitted them of all charges.
"In 1985, when he was U.S. Attorney in Mobile, Sessions’ office brought indictments over allegations of voter fraud in a number of Black Belt counties, an area in Alabama named for the color of the soil but with a majority black population.
In Perry County, Sessions’ office charged three individuals with voting fraud, including Albert Turner, a long-time civil rights activist who advised Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. and helped lead the voting rights March in Selma on March 7, 1965, known as "Bloody Sunday" after state troopers and a local posse attacked the protestors.
Prosecutors alleged that Turner, his wife Evelyn, and activist Spencer Hogue altered ballots for a Sept. 1984 primary election.
Robert Turner, Albert’s brother and an attorney in Marion, Ala., said in a phone interview Friday that the defendants – later known as the Marion Three – were trying to assist poor and elderly voters in casting ballots. In some cases, the defendants said they were helping illiterate voters mark their ballots, and only altered ballots when requested."
A jury acquitted them of all charges.
It's what you have to go to since you have no actual evidence against Sessions
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"King also took issue with the aggressiveness in which Sessions pursued the case at that time. She said witnesses who testified were pressured and intimidated into submitting "correct" testimony.
"Many elderly blacks were visited multiple times by the FBI who then hauled them over 180 miles by bus to a grand jury in Mobile when they could more easily have testified at a grand jury twenty miles away in Selma," said King.
"These voters, and others, have announced they are now never going to vote again."
A jury would eventually dismiss all charges against the three. Sessions, in 1986, had his nomination to the federal judgeship defeated by the Senate Judiciary Committee amid allegations of other racist claims which included alleged statements that he called the NAACP "un-American."
Coretta Scott King's 1986 letter opposing Sessions adds last-minute drama to confirmation hearings
"Many elderly blacks were visited multiple times by the FBI who then hauled them over 180 miles by bus to a grand jury in Mobile when they could more easily have testified at a grand jury twenty miles away in Selma," said King.
"These voters, and others, have announced they are now never going to vote again."
A jury would eventually dismiss all charges against the three. Sessions, in 1986, had his nomination to the federal judgeship defeated by the Senate Judiciary Committee amid allegations of other racist claims which included alleged statements that he called the NAACP "un-American."
Coretta Scott King's 1986 letter opposing Sessions adds last-minute drama to confirmation hearings
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Just for you Senator Warren!
STFU? Noooope, all McConnell did was hand Warren a MEGAPHONE.
Her reading would be mostly ignored if not for all the gag order headline making from Republicans.
THANKS dumb-asses!
true,
and that you assume that it was NOT researched, means less than nothing....
that was my point.
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