Advertisement A longtime protester who once confronted then-Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice with fake blood on her hands, Fairooz, 61, laughed after Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) said that Sessions' record of "treating all Americans equally under the law is clear and well-documented." Her initial laugh did not interrupt Shelby's speech, according to the Huffington Post (HuffPo also notes that Shelby himself had run an ad in the '80s linking Sessions to the Ku Klux Klan). NBC reports that the government motion describes two "bursts" of laughter." Fairooz maintains that her laugh was a spontaneous, unplanned reaction to the proceedings. "It was an immediate rejection of what I considered an outright lie or pure ignorance," she told the Times. Advertisement Fairooz "has been arrested while demonstrating in past," Code Pink campaign director Ariel Gold told NBC News. "But [her laugh] was not demonstrating. Generally, when Code Pink demonstrates, it's very hard to miss.
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