3 lessons from Republicans’ attempt to silence Elizabeth Warren - The Washington Post

By a vote of 49 to 43, Senate Republicans on Tuesday night formally silenced Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) during the debate over the nomination of Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) to be attorney general.

Invoking a seldom-used Senate rule, Republicans put Warren in her seat. Undeterred, she left the chamber, reached far beyond the nighttime audience of C-Span junkies, and broadcast to millions tough criticism of Sessions, leveled in statements by former senator Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.) and Coretta Scott King.

What happened Tuesday night and what can it tell us about legislative politics and the state of the Senate?...
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