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President - Elect ePearce4Q Ph.D 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇨🇦

ePearce4Q

For those interested in the Constitutional protections against foreign election interference, read this thread:1) The federal government holds the responsibility to protect ALL states from foreign election interference within the

southpaw

nycsouthpaw

The NYT editorial board has chosen a truly absurd list for making its anti-EO point. https://twitter.com/nytopinion/status/1354605352747225097 Let’s take it one by one:• The Paris agreement is a subsidiary agreement of

Judd Legum

JuddLegum

1. @Publix heiress Julie Jenkins Fancelli gave $300K to finance the January 6 event that turned into a riot.That was the bulk of the funding.Publix is saying they have nothing

Progressive Caucus

USProgressives

THREAD -- Former USPS Governor David Williams provided explosive testimony at our @USProgressives hearing yesterday. He documented a corrupt, long-running sabotage of USPS by right-wing officials seeking to destroy the

Joan Donovan, PhD 🦫

BostonJoan

We should all be watching DC on Jan 6, not just because of the political theatre in Congress, but because it feels a lot like the days before the Unite

Ann Marie Oliva

annymoliva

Wondering what is in the FY2021 appropriation for homeless assistance? The THUD appropriation Bill passed yesterday tells the story. The Homeless Assistance Grants account at HUD is at an even

Marc Ambinder

marcambinder

A list of questions about the 1/6 siege: a thread. About motives, planning, and operations. Did members of Congress or their staff unwittingly take participants in the riot on private

Chris Talbot

talbotchris

Key thing for this week in Congress: Section 3 of the 14th Amendment (which Speaker Pelosi called out in her letter to Members), does *not* require 2/3 majority to enforce:

monkeyglasses

monkeyglasses11

1. A thread on the importance of the Electoral College:Those who are opposed to the Electoral College have NO understanding of what it is, how it is proportioned, how it

Laura Evans

LauEEvans

Profs, the McGirt decision—and the acknowledgement that half of Oklahoma is on Indian reservations—is a great teaching case about both tribal-state and tribal-congressional relations. What to assign? 1/x First, students

White House History

WhiteHouseHstry

Vice President John Tyler, a former Democrat from Virginia, ascended to the presidency as a member of the Whig Party following the death of President William Henry Harrison in 1841.

andrew kaczynski

KFILE

NEW: Marjorie Taylor Greene indicated support for executing prominent Democrats in Facebook comments, videos, and likes in 2018 and 2019https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/26/politics/marjorie-taylor-greene-democrats-violence/index.html In one post

David Rothkopf

djrothkopf

@JonathanTurley suggests the founders would not react so quickly against a president who led an insurrection. Washington led an army of 13,000 people against a small group of farmers who

Ankit Panda

nktpnd

Short of removing Trump from office, there is no legal remedy that either CJCS or the Speaker of the House can take to prevent the president from issuing a valid

Hugh Hewitt

hughhewitt

When President Obama pioneered selective enforcement of law, media elites applauded. Now there is this line: “The measures would attempt to wrest away some of Congress’s most fundamental, constitutionally mandated

Beatrice-Elizabeth Peterson

MissBeaE

103 weeks ago I covered my first 2020 campaign event.It was MLK Day weekend in Columbia, South Carolina. At this point @CoryBooker nor @BernieSanders had announced that they were running.Before

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