Martin Luther King's niece accuses Warren of playing 'the race card'
By Nolan D. McCaskill
02/08/17 03:50 PM EST
Martin Luther King Jr.’s niece on Wednesday accused Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren of trying to “stir up” emotions and “play the race card” by invoking the King family name during a Senate floor speech Tuesday.
Senate Republicans voted along party lines late Tuesday to silence Warren for impugning another senator, a violation of Senate rules. During a lengthy floor speech expressing her opposition to Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions’ nomination to head the Justice Department, Warren had read aloud a letter that Coretta Scott King had sent to the Senate in 1986, when the chamber was debating whether to confirm Sessions to a lifetime appointment on the federal bench.
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