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Here’s the bottom line from Tuesday night’s shameful display by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and the 48 other members of his Bull Connor fan club: Senate Republicans refused to allow Sen. Elizabeth Warren to read these words from Coretta Scott King about Sen. Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III into the Senate Record:
Anyone who has used the power of his office as United States Attorney to intimidate and chill the free exercise of the ballot by citizens should not be elevated to our courts. Mr. Sessions has used the awesome powers of his office in a shabby attempt to intimidate and frighten elderly black voters.
… because on Wednesday evening, McConnell and his crew will march in lockstep to confirm Sessions as the Attorney General of the United States, a man they know “used the awesome powers of his office” to suppress the vote of African-Americans through fear and intimidation. And Senate Republicans are fine with that. They just didn’t want it on the record.
One can only assume that had Warren opened with “I say segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever,” Mitch McConnell and his cronies wouldn’t have felt compelled to tell her to sit down and shut up.