In an extremely rare rebuke, Sen. Elizabeth Warren was instructed to take her seat after clashing with Majority Leader Mitch McConnell[1] during Sen. Jeff Sessions' confirmation debate on Tuesday night.
McConnell determined the Massachusetts Democrat had violated a Senate rule against impugning another senator. The ruling means Warren will be barred from speaking on the floor until Sessions' debate ends, McConnell's office confirmed.
"She was warned. She was given an explanation. Nevertheless, she persisted," McConnell said on the Senate floor.
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The emotional exchange occurred during debate on the nomination of Sessions to be attorney general. Warren was reading from a 1986 letter from Coretta Scott King, the widow of Dr. Martin Luther King, which was critical of Sessions, who was then a nominee to be a federal judge.
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