The silencing of Elizabeth Warren and an old Senate rule prompted by a fistfight

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America got a civics lesson Tuesday night when Senate Republicans used an obscure rule to shut down a speech by Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass) that criticized Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), the nominee for attorney general.

Republicans took issue when Warren quoted from a pair of letters written by the late Coretta Scott King and the late senator Edward Kennedy (D-Mass) opposing Sessions’s ill-fated nominationLees meer

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