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?
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
