U.S. Senate Republicans silenced Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren for criticizing colleague and attorney general nominee Jeff Sessions with the words of Coretta Scott King from three decades ago. The chamber is debating the Alabama Republican's nomination for attorney general, with Democrats dropping senatorial niceties to oppose Sessions and Republicans sticking up for him. And Warren was reading from a letter that was written 10 years before Sessions was even elected to the Senate. Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama is Donald Trump's choice as attorney general. Warren argued: "I'm reading a letter from Coretta Scott King to the Judiciary Committee from 1986 that was admitted into the record.

Source: CBC News February 08, 2017 14:27 UTC