Sen. Elizabeth Warren Elizabeth WarrenNo new taxes for the ultra rich — fix bad tax policy instead Democrats back away from quick reversal of Trump tax cuts It's time for newspapers to stop endorsing presidential candidates MORE (D-Mass.) spoke out after being reprimanded on the Senate floor, saying she was "red-carded" by Senate Republicans over her comments on fellow Sen. Jeff Sessions Jefferson (Jeff) Beauregard SessionsTrump's policies on refugees are as simple as ABCs Ocasio-Cortez, Velázquez call for convention to decide Puerto Rico status White House officials voted by show of hands on 2018 family separations: report MORE (R-Ala.), President Trump’s pick for attorney general.

In an interview with MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow on Tuesday night following the Senate vote, Warren described the rare move from the Senate GOP.

"I was speaking about Jeff Sessions and what I believe to be is his complete lack of qualifications to be attorney general of the United States and indeed that he should be disqualified to be attorney general," she said.

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Warren quoted a 1986 letter from the late Coretta Scott King, a civil rights activist and widow of Martin Luther King Jr., that detailed some of the concerns that eventually helped tank Sessions's nomination for a federal judgeship.

Coretta Scott King wrote in 1986 that Sessions “had used the awesome power of his office to chill the free exercise of the vote by black citizens" as a U.S. attorney in Alabama.

"And now reading that letter out loud, according to [Majority Leader] Mitch McConnell Addison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellSenate Republicans signal openness to working with Biden Hillicon Valley: DOJ indicts Chinese, Malaysian hackers accused of targeting over 100 organizations | GOP senators raise concerns over Oracle-TikTok deal | QAnon awareness jumps in new poll The Hill's Campaign Report: Biden asks if public can trust vaccine from Trump ahead of Election Day | Oklahoma health officials raised red flags before Trump rally MORE [R-Ky.], impugned Sen. Sessions and therefore I got gaveled and forced to sit down, and I am not allowed to speak on the floor of the Senate," Warren said.

In an interview with the Boston Globe, Warren said she had “no idea” why McConnell chose to take such rare action “except to make clear that the Republicans do not want the public talking about Jeff Sessions’s record. That’s the only possible reason. Just shut up, don’t talk about him."

After McConnell shut down Warren's speech, senators rebuked her in a 49-43 party-line vote, preventing her from speaking on the Senate floor for the remainder of debate on Sessions's nomination, expected to last until Wednesday evening.

“The senator has impugned the motives and conduct of our colleague from Alabama,” McConnell said from the Senate floor. “I call the senator to order under the provisions of Rule 19.”

In the interview later on Tuesday evening, Warren explained that she would not be allowed to speak "so long as the topic is Sen. Jeff Sessions."

“I’ve been red-carded on Sen. Sessions. I’m out of the game on the Senate floor. I don’t get to speak at all,” Warren said.

The Massachusetts senator said she did not think her reading the letter would be so controversial.

“I hope that everyone reads Coretta Scott King’s letter,” Warren said. “She talks about what it meant when he was a U.S. attorney and the actions he took. She summarized by saying that she did not believe that Jeff Sessions ought to be confirmed to a federal judicial position. … It is eloquent and it reminds us of a time in history that we would like to think is far behind us but reminds us that it is not.”

Warren later read the letter in its entirety in a Facebook Live video.