Evidently blowing the whistle on acts of terrorism committed by a senator is not protected speech under the First Amendment. The Republicans are covering up terrorism by using an obscure and Unconstitutional procedural rule that doesn't even apply to stating historical facts.
Senator Elizabeth Warren talked about Sen. Jeff Sessions, Trump's nomination for attorney general, well document history in terrorizing American voters, obstructing justice, and interfering in elections. For this reason, every Republican senator and only Republican senators prevented Warren from speaking about the nominee in gross disregard for the Constitution and every soldier who fought for our nation as well as the Constitutional procedures for appointing cabinet members. The Republicans basically threw our republic under the bus and made every soldier's death meaningless.
It is not only the right, but the duty, of every senator to question the history of a cabinet nominee and his qualification to hold the cabinet position. This does not only apply to cabinet members who are sitting senators, but it applies doubly so. Perhaps the real rule we need is that no senator can be nominated to a cabinet position since no other senator can do his or her job of vetting that candidate.
The behavior of the Republicans should be highly offensive to anyone who gives a damn about America or the soldiers who sacrificed their lives to defend this republic from tyranny and other threats. The Republicans might as well be literally pissing on the graves of soldiers. It's utterly despicable.
If the senators vetting a cabinet nominee cannot make any criticism about the cabinet nominee because that nominee is also a senator, then that nominee cannot be appointed with due process and therefore must be refused.
Thankfully, this video is going viral. Evidently the dumb ass Republicans haven't learned anything from the Streisand Effect as Wired Magazine explains.
Senator Elizabeth Warren's fiery rebukes of Wall Street, Republicans, and President Donald Trump have been known to make the rounds online. But Tuesday night, it was what Warren couldn't say that went viral. GOP, meet the Streisand effect.
During a late-night Democrat-staged protest of Trump's pick for attorney general, Senator Jeff Sessions, Warren began reading a letter Coretta Scott King wrote in 1986 to oppose Sessions' then-nomination to a federal judgeship. “Mr. Sessions has used-the awesome power of his office to chill the free exercise of the vote by black citizens in the district he now seeks to serve as a federal judge,” Warren said, reading from King's letter.
Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell swiftly shut Warren down, saying she'd violated rules against impugning other members of the Senate. And just like that, Warren's message, which might have otherwise gone largely unheard during the late-night session, spread far and wide with the hashtag #LetLizSpeak.
Evidently blowing the whistle on acts of terrorism committed by a senator is not protected speech under the First Amendment. The Republicans are covering up terrorism by using an obscure and Unconstitutional procedural rule that doesn't even apply to stating historical facts.
Senator Elizabeth Warren talked about Sen. Jeff Sessions, Trump's nomination for attorney general, well document history in terrorizing American voters, obstructing justice, and interfering in elections. For this reason, every Republican senator and only Republican senators prevented Warren from speaking about the nominee in gross disregard for the Constitution and every soldier who fought for our nation as well as the Constitutional procedures for appointing cabinet members. The Republicans basically threw our republic under the bus and made every soldier's death meaningless.
It is not only the right, but the duty, of every senator to question the history of a cabinet nominee and his qualification to hold the cabinet position. This does not only apply to cabinet members who are sitting senators, but it applies doubly so. Perhaps the real rule we need is that no senator can be nominated to a cabinet position since no other senator can do his or her job of vetting that candidate.
The behavior of the Republicans should be highly offensive to anyone who gives a damn about America or the soldiers who sacrificed their lives to defend this republic from tyranny and other threats. The Republicans might as well be literally pissing on the graves of soldiers. It's utterly despicable.
Warren sanctioned for ‘impugning' Sessions during attorney general debate in Senate (With Video)
If the senators vetting a cabinet nominee cannot make any criticism about the cabinet nominee because that nominee is also a senator, then that nominee cannot be appointed with due process and therefore must be refused.
Thankfully, this video is going viral. Evidently the dumb ass Republicans haven't learned anything from the Streisand Effect as Wired Magazine explains.
Spread the word. Make the assholes pay.
#politics #LetLizSpeak