Last night, on the floor of the United States Senate, Elizabeth Warren, in discussing the nomination of Senator Jeff Sessions for Attorney General, attempted to read a 1986 letter from Coretta Scott King to the U.S. Judiciary Committee about the Senator’s history relative to civil rights. [Sessions, at the time, was in the running to become a federal judge.] As you can see in this video, Warren was immediately shut down by Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who accused her of impugning the reputation of a fellow Senator.
Had Warren been allowed to continue, you would have heard her share the opinion of Mrs. King that, if Sessions were allowed to ascend to a position of responsibility in the judiciary, it would “irreparably damage” the legacy of her late husband, Martin Luther King, Jr.
Here is the cover letter that accompanied Coretta Scott King’s sworn statement from 1986, which goes into detail concerning the efforts Sessions had taken as a prosecutor in Alabama to go after civil rights leaders for voter fraud. [If you follow that last link, you can read King’s entire nine-page statement, which, until recently, had been kept from the public.]
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Warren, after being rebuked by Senate leadership, then went outside the Senate chamber to complete her reading of the King statement.
Now please share the King letter with everyone you know, and call your Senators. The Sessions’ confirmation vote is scheduled to take place later today. And, if you haven’t already, check out the exchange between Sessions and Senator Al Franken concerning the nominee’s overstatement of his role in fighting for civil rights.