Elizabeth Warren rails against Jeff Sessions confirmation in tweet storm

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) launched a flurry of tweets on Wednesday ripping Jeff Sessions’s confirmation to be attorney general and positioning herself as a watchdog for the former Alabama senator’s tenure at the helm of the Justice Department.

I’m deeply disappointed that the Senate voted to confirm Jeff Sessions as Attorney General tonight.

— Elizabeth Warren (@SenWarren) February 9, 2017

Deeply disappointed that the Senate confirmed an AG whose record does not show he will faithfully & fairly enforce the law.

— Elizabeth Warren (@SenWarren) February 9, 2017

Thanks to you, everyone now knows the concerns that Coretta Scott King had about Jeff Sessions. Concerns that millions of people still have.

— Elizabeth Warren (@SenWarren) February 9, 2017

There’s no Rule 19 to silence me from talking about Jeff Sessions anymore. So let me say loudly & clearly: This is just the beginning.

— Elizabeth Warren (@SenWarren) February 9, 2017

If Jeff Sessions turns a blind eye while @realDonaldTrump violates the Constitution or breaks the law, he’ll hear from all of us.

— Elizabeth Warren (@SenWarren) February 9, 2017

If Jeff Sessions makes even the tiniest attempt to bring his racism, sexism & bigotry into @TheJusticeDept, he’ll hear from all of us.

— Elizabeth Warren (@SenWarren) February 9, 2017

And you better believe every Senator who voted to put Jeff Sessions’s radical hatred into @TheJusticeDept will hear from all of us, too.

— Elizabeth Warren (@SenWarren) February 9, 2017

Consider this MY warning: We won’t be silent. We will speak out. And we WILL persist.

— Elizabeth Warren (@SenWarren) February 9, 2017

The tweet storm came roughly an hour after the Senate voted largely along party lines to confirm Sessions as the next attorney general. One Democrat, Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia, voted for Sessions.

In her tweets, Warren warned that she and her fellow Democrats would go after Sessions and those who supported him if he “turns a blind eye” to any unconstitutional or illegal actions committed by President Trump.

{mosads}Warren has been among Sessions’s most vocal critics. Senate Republicans voted to rebuke the progressive firebrand Tuesday night, arguing that Warren had broken Senate rules by personally attacking Sessions during a debate on his nomination.

At the time, Warren was reading a letter by the late civil rights activist Coretta Scott King, who weighed in on Sessions’s failed 1986 nomination for a federal judgeship. In the letter, King accused the newly confirmed Alabama attorney general of suppressing black voters in the state during his time as a U.S. attorney.

Warren blasted the vote to silence her in a tweet, pointing out that, because Sessions was confirmed as attorney general, there are no Senate rules barring her from criticizing him.

“There’s no Rule 19 to silence me from talking about Jeff Sessions anymore. So let me say loudly & clearly: This is just the beginning,” she tweeted.