(CNN) Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax compared his experience facing two sexual assault allegations to those of lynching victims lacking due process in an impromptu speech on the Virginia Senate floor Sunday.

Fairfax's comments concluded an explosive legislative session that saw all three of the state's top Democrats embroiled in scandal, including two sexual assault allegations against Fairfax and recently surfaced photos and stories, respectively, of Gov. Ralph Northam and Attorney General Mark Herring wearing blackface. CNN reported Thursday that the Republican-led General Assembly plans to investigate the allegations against Fairfax.

"I've heard much about anti-lynching on the floor of this very Senate, where people were not given any due process whatsoever, and we rue that," Fairfax said. "And we talk about hundreds, at least 100 terror lynchings that have happened in the Commonwealth of Virginia under those very same auspices. And yet we stand here in a rush to judgment with nothing but accusations and no facts and we decide that we are willing to do the same thing."

Earlier, Fairfax opened his remarks with a warning for the future, noting that it was the 400th anniversary of both the first meeting of the Virginia General Assembly and of the first instance of slavery in the state.

"If we go backwards, and we rush to judgment and we allow for political lynchings without any due process, any facts, any evidence being heard, then I think we do a disservice to this very body in which we all serve," Fairfax said. "And I want to stand in this moment, in the truth, not only which has tested my constitution personally, but is testing the constitution of the commonwealth of Virginia and of the United States of America."

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