#Scotus

this morning's journey, a thread. I made pancakes for the kids and I at 7am. We ate them and they were good. A little fact bit about me: I put
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US lawmaking has a distinctive failure mode: because of the Constitution's absolute language and extensive jurisprudence, lawmakers can please their base by enacting bad, overreaching or stupid laws and then
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In the midst of a pandemic & economic crisis, DOJ urged SCOTUS yesterday to take health care away from 20m+ people. Insanity. (thread)https://www.cbpp.org/health/commentary-aca-repeal-even-more-dangerous-during-pandemic-and-economic-cri
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New: Another GOP election challenge loss — 11th Circuit rejected L. Lin Wood's effort to stop Georgia from certifying. The 3-0 opinion, written by Judge Bill Pryor, agreed with the
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1/ NEW Phrase to learn. "Ex parte Milligan"- SCOTUS ruling about Scope of military jurisdiction under the US Constitution.There are under the Constitution 3 kinds of military jurisdiction: 1 2b
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Democrats have created lots of problems for themselves by rushing to impeach a president who will be a former president before trial begins. Senate Dems want to confirm Biden appointments,
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How did corporations gain so much power over US politics? Original sin occurred when two Republicans (NY Senator Roscoe Conkling & OH Congressman John A. Bingham) intentionally planted an ambiguity
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#Presidementia - Insanity on Hannity 1/ Trump is on the phone with Sean, not responding to Sean’s first softball, instead rambling the tall tale re “banning China.” One long, weird,
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Over the last four years, despite holding the Presidency, Senate, a majority of Governors and State legislators, District Attorneys, the GOP has never, ever, been able to prove voter fraud
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Situation Update, Dec. 31st – Game-changing bombshells to be unveiled before Congress on January 6In today’s SU, we reveal Trump’s plan to unleash bombshell evidence in front of Congress on
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In 1963, SCOTUS ruled in Brady v Maryland. They held that when prosecutors called on police officers to testify against a defendant, the prosecutors had a legal duty to inform
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Texas replied to SCOTUS today.The original filing used fallacious stats to allege fraud in four states.The reply makes the same allegations, using the same tests. But if we apply the
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If you’re ever on trial, American law expects you to have acted perfectly and with perfect information about the future, or else you’re a bad human being who deserves to
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Supreme Court arguments in California v. Texas will begin shortly.Will Justice Amy Coney Barrett help deliver a parting gift to lame duck President Donald Trump—dismantling Obamacare during a pandemic?Follow the
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81 yrs ago tonight, the extraordinary criminologist Edwin Sutherland gave a speech to the American Sociological Society that marked the start of a shift in what legal systems recognize as
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Thread: A CIVIL WAR BEING FOUGHT ONLINE, IN THE MEDIA & IN OUR INSTITUTIONS IS REACHING IT'S #ENDGAME.President Donald John Trump & America's Defenders vs. a UNIPARTY that pretended to
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