Montanans head to Daines offices statewide to protest Warren silencing

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MISSOULA — Mo Essen called Sen. Elizabeth Warren's office on Wednesday to apologize.

Essen, from Missoula, said Republican Montana Sen. Steve Daines' silencing of Warren on the Senate floor Tuesday was uncalled for.


Warren, a Massachusetts Democrat, was reading a letter that civil rights leader Coretta Scott King wrote in 1986 protesting Jeff Sessions' nomination as a federal judge. At the time, he was the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Alabama. King argued that Sessions had used his political power "to intimidate and chill" black voters; testimony to the same effect eventually led to his nomination being withdrawn.

Three decades later and Sen. Sessions has been nominated for U.S. attorney general.


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