--- title: Elizabeth Warren Silenced by Senate: Internet Reactions description: Following Sen. Elizabeth Warren's silencing by the Senate, the Internet has begun using her rebuke as a rallying cry. canonical: https://time.com/4663708/elizabeth-warren-senate-silencing-internet-reactions/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-02-08T16:02:22.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:40:54.788Z og:title: The Internet Is Turning Elizabeth Warren's Silencing Into a Rallying Cry og:description: "Nevertheless, she persisted" og:url: https://time.com/4663708/elizabeth-warren-senate-silencing-internet-reactions/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcf48ea872d8b5f4a/6988b940e20a87f6c4a94098/elizabeth-warren.jpg?branch=production&width=594&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 594 og:image:height: 334 og:image:alt: Senate Banking Subcommitee Hearing With Fed Governor Jerome Powell og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: The Internet Is Turning Elizabeth Warren's Silencing Into a Rallying Cry twitter:description: "Nevertheless, she persisted" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcf48ea872d8b5f4a/6988b940e20a87f6c4a94098/elizabeth-warren.jpg?branch=production&width=594&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # The Internet Is Turning Elizabeth Warren's Silencing Into a Rallying Cry: 'Nevertheless, She Persisted' > Sponsored content. 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Senator Elizabeth Warren, a Democrat from Massachusetts, speaks during a Senate Banking subcommittee hearing in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Thursday, April 14, 2016. Drew Angerer/Bloomberg via Getty Images  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Feb 8, 2017 4:02 PM UTC After [Sen. Elizabeth Warren was silenced](http://time.com/4663578/elizabeth-warren-jeff-sessions-coretta-scott-king-senate/) Tuesday night for reading a [letter written by the late Coretta Scott King](http://time.com/4663497/coretta-scott-king-letter-warren-senate-sessions/) during the Senate debate over the nomination of [Sen. Jeff Sessions](http://time.com/4654850/jeff-sessions-sally-yates-attorney-general/) as Attorney General, her supporters on the Internet took the opportunity to use Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell’s explanation for her rebuke as a rallying cry. Reading the 1986 King letter that opposed Sessions’ federal judge nomination technically meant that Warren had violated Senate rules for “impugning the motives” of Sessions on the Senate floor, and now, the GOP-controlled Senate will not allow Warren to speak again on Sessions’ nomination. “She was warned. She was given an explanation. Nevertheless, she persisted,” McConnell said, according to [The Washington Post](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/02/08/nevertheless-she-persisted-becomes-new-battle-cry-after-mcconnell-silences-elizabeth-warren/?utm%5Fterm=.1d6f20a04ed0). It was these final three words that seemed to light a fire under social media users, inspiring the hashtags [#LetLizSpeak](https://twitter.com/hashtag/letlizspeak?src=hash&ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw) and [#ShePersists](https://twitter.com/hashtag/ShePersists?src=tren) along with a barrage of posts in support of Warren that included women who made history from Rosa Parks to Princess Leia. > [](https://twitter.com/JamilSmith/status/829173906384760834) > [](https://twitter.com/colormeshina/status/829328450024521728) > [](https://twitter.com/BerniceKing/status/829266973397753856) > [](https://twitter.com/brianjayjones/status/829300817773604866) > [](https://twitter.com/YellieKat/status/829291984300937219) > [](https://twitter.com/jennifercarolyn/status/829170661058822147) > [](https://twitter.com/PastorAmyTRC/status/829312732595965953) > [](https://twitter.com/MarcSnetiker/status/829208794379014148) > [](https://twitter.com/KaivanShroff/status/829328895354761219) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4663708/elizabeth-warren-senate-silencing-internet-reactions/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4663708/elizabeth-warren-senate-silencing-internet-reactions/"},"headline":"The Internet Is Turning Elizabeth Warren's Silencing Into a Rallying Cry: 'Nevertheless, She Persisted'","datePublished":"2017-02-08T16:02:22.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:40:54.788Z","description":"\"She was warned. 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