Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren (Mass.) held the Senate floor Tuesday to make remarks on the pending appointment of U.S. Attorney General nominee Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions from Alabama. When Warren began reading a recently uncovered letter written by the late Coretta Scott King in 1986, Republican senators shut her down.
King, an activist and wife of slain civil rights leader Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., penned a nine-page letter of testimony, dated March 19, 1986, to then-Judiciary Chairman Strom Thurmond (R-S.C.). She testified against Sessions’ nomination for a federal judgeship in Alabama because of his civil rights record, particularly thecriminal voting fraud charges he filed against Evelyn Turner, Albert Turner and Spencer Hogue, known as the “Marion Three.”King’s opposition became a crucial part of the argument against his confirmation, and a Republican-controlled Senate rejected Sessions for a federal judgeship.
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