Last night, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren headed down to the Senate floor with a letter from Coretta Scott King, wife of Martin Luther King Jr. The letter was in opposition to Jeff Sessions – though not in opposition to his recent nomination to be the next U.S. Attorney General. It was a 1986 letter to the Judiciary Committee opposing Sessions’ nomination to become a federal district court judge. In the eyes of Sen. Warren, 30 years hasn’t made much of a difference.
As Warren read the letter, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell invoked Senate Rule 19 – claiming Warren was impugning her fellow Senator Jeff Sessions. Warren was forced to sit down and shut up.
Boy, what a terrible mistake that was.
She immediately walked outside the chamber, and what would have been a late-night C-SPAN glimmer, turned into address to a Facebook audience of two million. The incident was trending across the internet with the hashtag #LetLizSpeak within minutes.
In a similar vein as Donald Trump’s “Nasty Woman” comment, McConnell’s simple line “But she persisted,” turned into an instant rallying cry for women everywhere opposed to Trump and his rapidly-forming administration.
EMILY’s List, a group that supports female pro-choice political candidates, took that opportunity to show us some other women that “persist.”
Like every “nasty woman” in the U.S. Congress.
Smooth move, McConnell.
As Warren read the letter, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell invoked Senate Rule 19 – claiming Warren was impugning her fellow Senator Jeff Sessions. Warren was forced to sit down and shut up.
Boy, what a terrible mistake that was.
She immediately walked outside the chamber, and what would have been a late-night C-SPAN glimmer, turned into address to a Facebook audience of two million. The incident was trending across the internet with the hashtag #LetLizSpeak within minutes.
In a similar vein as Donald Trump’s “Nasty Woman” comment, McConnell’s simple line “But she persisted,” turned into an instant rallying cry for women everywhere opposed to Trump and his rapidly-forming administration.
EMILY’s List, a group that supports female pro-choice political candidates, took that opportunity to show us some other women that “persist.”
Like every “nasty woman” in the U.S. Congress.
Smooth move, McConnell.