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Coretta Scott King's Words Not Allowed on the Senate Floor
By rmrd0000 on Tue, 02/07/2017 - 9:18pm |Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren was prevented from merely reading the words Coretta Scott King used in a letter sent to the Senate in 1986 in opposition to the nomination of Jefferson Beauregard Sessions to be a federal judge. Mrs. King's statement included that Sessions “had used the awesome power of his office to chill the free exercise of the vote by black citizens". That statement was viewed as impugning the characteristic of a sitting Senator and Mitch McConnell, the turtle from Kentucky, demanded that Warren stop speaking. The ruling was that Warren had broken Senate Rule 19. Warren can no longer speak on Sessions' nomination tonight.
In the current Senate, you cannot read words that were read into the Senate record in 1986. You cannot read the words of Coretta Scott King on the Senate floor. Welcome to Trump America.
Link to Coretta Scott King's letter (at the WaPo)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2017/01/10/read-the-let...
URL:
http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/318422-mcconnell-warrens-blistering-sessions-speech-broke-senate-rules
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Elizabeth Warren just gained much needed exposure in minority communities. McConnell gave blacks even more reason to want to vote Republicans out of office. The new DNC head needs to work on making sure there is structure to aid Democratic candidates.
by rmrd0000 on Tue, 02/07/2017 - 9:25pm
I need to correct the statement in the news post above. Coretta Scott King's letter was not read into the Senate record in 1986. The letter was submitted. It was not placed into the court record. The Senate committee was head by segregationist Strom Thurman. Reporters from the WaPo recently found the letter. I just wanted to clarify the record.
by rmrd0000 on Tue, 02/07/2017 - 9:29pm
Senator Kampala Harris of California requested the Warren be allowed to finish reading the letter.
Orrin Hatch supporting McConnell's use of Rule 19
http://www.mediaite.com/online/mcconnell-reprimands-warren-over-speech-s...
by rmrd0000 on Tue, 02/07/2017 - 10:02pm
You don't knock an organized crime hit man in a mob ceremony, meanwhile they provided cover for the unhinged mob boss as he admitted Republicans are liars, thugs and murderers no better than Russia.
And in other news insane Dr. Jill Stein blamed Democrats for tie vote on DeVos:
...it really seems she and her 1,207,141 supporters did that.
by NCD on Tue, 02/07/2017 - 11:15pm
All 48 democratic senators voted against De Vos and it's the democrats fault? Fuck jill stein.
by ocean-kat on Wed, 02/08/2017 - 12:05am
Thanks. I also wrote about this. I wouldn't have if I'd read you first but to be honest I was too furious to take
the time and check.
by Flavius on Tue, 02/07/2017 - 11:08pm
No problem. Multiple voices need to shout about this insult. McConnell is trying to galvanize his deplorables to support Sessions. The GOP openly invites the white supremacists. McConnell has inflamed Blacks, women, and Progressives.
Uncle Tom was a heroic character who suffered rather than reveal the whereabouts of escaped slaves. Black Republicans are not Uncle Toms, they are simply deplorables.
by rmrd0000 on Tue, 02/07/2017 - 11:42pm
problem is, they can get away with it and democrats are hapless to stop them and they know it. and every time democrats do shove a stick between their spokes, just makes them angrier and more willing to move for single party rule ... 50 vote majority for everything ... so as to shut democrats completely out of the governing process.
by Beetlejuice on Wed, 02/08/2017 - 11:17am
The Democrats are completely shut out of the governing process, and the Republicans hate it.
As they have no experience or motivation to do anything but obstruct governing Democrats.
by NCD on Wed, 02/08/2017 - 12:02pm
Democrats can still ambush republicans just to annoy them, but they're technically completely shut out of the legislative processes ... did you forget the reconciliation process republicans love to use to pass legislation with a simple republican majority?
by Beetlejuice on Wed, 02/08/2017 - 2:07pm
Acts like Senator Booker testifying against Sessions and Warren reading Coretta King's letter are important to keep the base engaged and remind the base why they need to get out the vote. The base will have to organize themselves rather than wait for the DNC.
by rmrd0000 on Wed, 02/08/2017 - 2:20pm
Senator Merkley read parts of the letter later in the evening. He was not stopped. It may be that The GOP hates Warren, that Warren was to bold to be a woman, or that the GOP heard pushback from not allowing Coretta Scott King's word to be read.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jeff-merkley-reads-part-of-coretta-s...
by rmrd0000 on Wed, 02/08/2017 - 9:43am
I had the same thought too.
It was as if they were looking for an excuse to shut her down.
by Beetlejuice on Wed, 02/08/2017 - 11:14am
Sounds like republicans are going out of their way to disenfranchise African Americans ... I wonder what form their anger will take?
by Beetlejuice on Wed, 02/08/2017 - 11:13am
by barefooted on Wed, 02/08/2017 - 11:42am
Oh and Missy, Rachel pointed out last night that Warren gets more coverage speaking out of turn on the cable news and internet than on the Senate Floor. hahahah
By about ten this morning there were five million hits on Mrs. King's letter. haahhahahahah
by Richard Day on Wed, 02/08/2017 - 3:39pm
I think it's over 8 million now! And if you add in folks who have read it on line ... betcha Mitch wishes he'd just let it be read and ignored by the C-Span audience. I think the absolute silver lining is that a letter that was never originally entered into the Congressional record the first time (and hence its existence virtually unknown) is now a part of a much larger history than just that of Congress. If there's anything better than that, it's the shot in the arm for the millions of already engaged and active women to hear Mitch casually say, "She was warned. She was given an explanation. Nevertheless, she persisted."
by barefooted on Wed, 02/08/2017 - 4:39pm
Press secretary Sean Spicer was disrespectful enough to suggest that Coretta Scott King would now be supporting Beauregard.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/sean-spicer-coretta-scott-king_us_58...
Edit to add:
Joe Manchin of West Virginia was the only Democrat to vote for Sessions for Attorney General.
http://heavy.com/news/2017/02/joe-manchin-jeff-sessions-trump-republican...
by rmrd0000 on Wed, 02/08/2017 - 11:04pm
And if she did not? Would they care?
I believe when things get tougher for the gang in the white house Spicer will invoke God as somehow guiding Trump through hostile & tempestuous seas.
by NCD on Wed, 02/08/2017 - 11:30pm
Spicer will invoke God as somehow guiding Trump through hostile & tempestuous seas.
strikes me as not an exaggeration and not that far in the future, that kinda thing is what it's going to take for him to stay in the job.Fuggedabout all this past pretending that office is there to give the press the current facts stuff, it's been about spin for a long time, but now Trump wants the spin to be loud and proud, not just like a good P.R. person but like a televangelist.
by artappraiser on Thu, 02/09/2017 - 12:54am
...but now Trump wants the spin to be loud and proud, not just like a good P.R. person but like a televangelist.
Spot on.
by barefooted on Thu, 02/09/2017 - 10:09am
The Republicans and Alt-Right need to erase the term snowflake from their vocabulary.
by Danny Cardwell on Thu, 02/09/2017 - 9:49am
True. They are the snowflakes, whining when confronted.
Have there been any black Republicans speaking out about Trump, Bannon, and Sessions? I am unaware of any.
Ted Cruz tried to divert attention by calling the Democrats the party of the KKK. He rehashes The Democratic Party support of the Klan and the fact that Northern Republicans voted for the Civil Rights Act. Republicans always leave out Goldwater, the Southern Strategy of Nixon, Reagan's state's rights speech in Philadelphia, Mississippi and the support Trump gets from David Duke.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/ted-cruz-democrats-ku-klux-klan_us_5...
What is really hilarious is that the National Black Republican Association website has an article supporting Cruz for telling the truth. The article also contains a reprint from the National Examiner that again tells the abridged history of the GOP and race. The Examiner article ends with the statement that racist Dixiecrats left the Democratic Party briefly to form their own party. The racist Dixiecrats are said to have returned to the Democratic Party, while Conservatives like Strom Thurman became Republicans.
http://blackrepublican.blogspot.com/2017/02/finally-republican-politicia...
I couldn't stop laughing. Strom Thurman was the 1948 Presidential candidate for the racist Dixiecrats! The Dixiecrats aided the rise of the GOP in the South. These Black Republicans are willfully ignorant.
http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/government-politics/dixiecrats
by rmrd0000 on Thu, 02/09/2017 - 11:27am