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Sen. Elizabeth Warren is not someone who agrees to be shut down and put in a corner. 。

After she was silenced by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and the rest of Senate Republicans for impugning a fellow senator's character, Warren took to Facebook Live to finish her remarks. 。

From outside the Senate floor, she read a letter from the late Coretta Scott King, widow of Martin Luther King, opposing Sen. Jeff Sessions for a federal judgeship in 1986. Sessions is President Donald Trump's nominee for U.S. attorney general.。

“Tonight I wanted to read that letter, and Sen. Mitch McConnell and Republicans came to the floor to shut me down for reading that letter,” Warren said in the live stream.。

“So right now what I’d like to do outside the Senate, I just want to read the letter.” 

King's widow wrote at the time: “Mr. Sessions has used the awesome powers of his office in a shabby attempt to intimidate and frighten elderly black voters."。

At the time of writing, Warren's live video has attracted 3.3 million views, 262,000 "likes" and nearly 80,000 shares. 。

Sen. Jeff Merkley later managed to read the same letter on the Senate floor.。

The Republicans' move outraged Democrats on social media and triggered the hashtag #LetLizSpeak on Twitter.。

The Republicans' move outraged Democrats on social media and triggered the hashtag #LetLizSpeak on Twitter. 。

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Many people also shared Coretta Scott King's letter in full: 。

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