Democratic senators read Coretta Scott King's letter from the Senate floor on Wednesday morning after Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts was stopped in the middle of doing so on Tuesday night.
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Top Democrats read Coretta Scott King's letter from the Senate floor after Elizabeth Warren was silenced
Bernie Sanders and other leading Senators picked up where Elizabeth Warren left off.
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Four senators Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Tom Udall (D-NM), Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and Bernie Sanders (I-VT) later read King's letter from the Senate floor themselves, and were not stopped by Republicans. All plan to vote against Sessions confirmation on Wednesday evening.
King's letter was written in 1986 in opposition to Sessions' appointment as a federal judge in Alabama. In the letter, King criticized Sessions' record on voting rights, saying the Voting Rights Act "was, and still is, vitally important to the future of democracy in the United States."
"I entered Coretta Scott King's letter about #Sessions into the Senate record and read it from the floor — her words should not be silenced," Udall tweeted on Wednesday morning.
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A spokesman for Mitch McConnell clarified to The Huffington Post on Wednesday that none of the other Senators had preceded reading King's letter with a speech disparaging Sessions.
Watch a portion of Sanders speech here:
Watch Udalls full speech here:
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