Elizabeth Warren
"Nevertheless, she persisted"
Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
said Warren had “impugned the motives and conduct”
of Sessions while quoting a 1986 letter written by
Coretta Scott King in opposition to Sessions’ appointment
as a federal judge.
https://time.com/5175901/elizabeth-warren-nevertheless-she-persisted-meaning/
Interrupting her speech, McConnell accused Warren of violating
Senate Rule 19, which states that Senators cannot “directly or
indirectly, by any form of words impute to another Senator or
to other Senators any conduct or motive unworthy or unbecoming
a Senator.” The Senate then voted along party lines to stop her f
rom continuing to speak during the debate.
“Senator Warren was giving a lengthy speech,”
McConnell said, defending the move. “She had appeared to
violate the rule. She was warned. She was given an explanation.
Nevertheless, she persisted.”
February 2017 when Democratic Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth
Warren was silenced and rebuked by Republicans during a debate
over President Trump’s nomination of Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions
as U.S. Attorney General.
Warren later read King’s letter in its entirety outside the Senate
chamber in a Facebook video that has now been viewed nearly
13 million times. McConnell’s rebuke inadvertently elevated
Warren’s message and has since appeared defiantly on tattoos
and T-shirts, inspired the title of Chelsea Clinton’s children’s
book and fueled the progressive message of a 2020 contender.
"Nevertheless, she persisted"
Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
said Warren had “impugned the motives and conduct”
of Sessions while quoting a 1986 letter written by
Coretta Scott King in opposition to Sessions’ appointment
as a federal judge.
https://time.com/5175901/elizabeth-warren-nevertheless-she-persisted-meaning/
Interrupting her speech, McConnell accused Warren of violating
Senate Rule 19, which states that Senators cannot “directly or
indirectly, by any form of words impute to another Senator or
to other Senators any conduct or motive unworthy or unbecoming
a Senator.” The Senate then voted along party lines to stop her f
rom continuing to speak during the debate.
“Senator Warren was giving a lengthy speech,”
McConnell said, defending the move. “She had appeared to
violate the rule. She was warned. She was given an explanation.
Nevertheless, she persisted.”
February 2017 when Democratic Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth
Warren was silenced and rebuked by Republicans during a debate
over President Trump’s nomination of Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions
as U.S. Attorney General.
Warren later read King’s letter in its entirety outside the Senate
chamber in a Facebook video that has now been viewed nearly
13 million times. McConnell’s rebuke inadvertently elevated
Warren’s message and has since appeared defiantly on tattoos
and T-shirts, inspired the title of Chelsea Clinton’s children’s
book and fueled the progressive message of a 2020 contender.
