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Marco Rubio's Defense of Comity

The Florida senator defended the controversial silencing of Elizabeth Warren—but were his words substantially aimed at someone else?
Source: Reuters / Saul Loeb

Marco Rubio did something unexpected on Wednesday.

If you reflect on Adam Serwer’s of the civil-rights credentials that Republicans fabricated for Senator Jeff Sessions when he was nominated to be attorney general; the that Coretta Scott King sent to the Senate Judiciary Committee, imploring them not to confirm Sessions as a federal judge due to his callous opposition to civil-rights activists; the Elizabeth Warren made to read King’s letter during Senate debate about whether to confirm Sessions as attorney general; and the widespread anger Mitch McConnell when shutting her down with a procedural rule a fellow senator; then it might surprise you that Rubio, a swing-state senator who trades on his moderate image, would make a public

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