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The North Carolina Supreme Court dropped 3 partisan decisions in a severe attack on our democracy.
Here’s what you need to know 🧵
Here’s what you need to know 🧵
In 2022, @CommonCauseNC won in Harper v. Hall to protect voters from partisan gerrymandering. The unconstitutional maps made by extremist lawmakers were redrawn.
Upset they didn’t get their gerrymandered maps, the lawmakers appealed to SCOTUS in #MooreVHarper.
Upset they didn’t get their gerrymandered maps, the lawmakers appealed to SCOTUS in #MooreVHarper.
Meanwhile a newly configured NC Supreme Court re-decided the Harper v. Hall, reversing the prior court’s decision today in a nearly unprecedented move.
Such a privilege to argue #MoorevHarper in the Supreme Court on behalf of Becky Harper, @CommonCause & other voter protection groups. Anything you liked in my argument was really the product of incredible work by so many, especially @judgeluttig, Abha Khanna, Elisabeth Theodore + 
Stanton Jones, Allison Riggs, Katie Wellington, Will Havemann, Olivia Molodanof, Sam Hirsch, Jessie Amunson, Zach Shauf, Erik Zimmerman, and many many more.
A decision is expected by June, 2023.
A decision is expected by June, 2023.
I can't tell you how many sleepless nights these people put into this. If you know any of them, please thank them.
As folks are looking for assorted livetweet threads about #MooreVHarper – the current SCOTUS case that will officially usher in the Independent State Legislature theory as settled law – just wanted to remind y'all about our #LawTwitter MegaList here:
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I think it's a "will" with this SCOTUS, and probably 5-4
(With the obligatory disclaimer that ISL is insane as a legal theory, and I hope I'm wrong on SCOTUS buying it. @BlackFish775)
so true.
Gorsuch was good on ICWA. He's crap on everything else.
the original public meaning of the Constitution changes and shifts depending upon what Republicans want. It's so disingenuous.
What's up, nerds! @AngryBlackLady here ready to live-tweet the downfall of democracy in #MooreVHarper!
The independent state legislature theory (ISL Theory) is on deck. And it's bad.
The independent state legislature theory (ISL Theory) is on deck. And it's bad.
THE ISL theory posits that state courts are without power to review state legislative action when it comes to federal elections because the Elections Clause says the legislature *exclusively* has the power to set the time, place, and manner of federal elections.
It's absurd.
It's absurd.
It's contrary to the Constitution. It's contrary to originalism, which Thomas and Alito love to dry hump when it suits them.
And it's contrary to common friggin sense.
But common sense and the rule of law don't matter anymore so here we are.
And it's contrary to common friggin sense.
But common sense and the rule of law don't matter anymore so here we are.
I'll be following today's oral argument in #MooreVHarper and will do tweet thread here. For overview of issues, see my three posts:
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Four counsel arguing today: David Thompson for state legislators; former acting SG Neal Katyal for non-state respondents; former SG Don Verrilli for state respondents; and SG Elizabeth Prelogar for US.
Have to wonder when last time (if ever) was that three folks who headed or head Office of Solicitor General argued in same case. (Here they are all on the same side.)
I read the Pro Publica piece on Moore and I just find it distressing that people who write about the law look around and see what is going on with this Court and still somehow believe in the Court as an institution that can fix the cracking open of democracy.
This writer cites a law prof who has written that Moore won't mean that state legislatures can overturn the will of the people in a federal election because Congress mandates that electors be selected before Election Day.
Does this person really think the GOP won't change that if given the chance?
I'm reading this guy's law review article and it's all about precedent and how the Court said this and Congress has mandated that.
But the point is, authoritarianism doesn't adhere to these rules!
I'm reading this guy's law review article and it's all about precedent and how the Court said this and Congress has mandated that.
But the point is, authoritarianism doesn't adhere to these rules!
CASE ALERT: This Wed., Dec. 7, the Supreme Court will hear argument in a case called #MoorevHarper. The case is based on how North Carolina congressional districts were drawn but it's also of national import. In fact, it might be the singular case to fully unravel our democracy.
Moore v. Harper involves a complicated sounding theory called ISLT or the “independent state legislature theory”, which is another way of saying that state legislatures—and not state courts--should be the final decider of whether a state’s election laws are constitutional.
This theory—that state legislatures are independent and final decisionmakers--would upend the U.S. Constitution’s carefully constructed system of checks on governmental and majoritarian abuses of power.
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Notice how the criminal enterprise in the GOP House didn't talk about Hunter Biden too much for two years and now with Trump announcing for 2024, Garland appointing a SC, and GOP taking house, the criminals are talking?
Notice how the criminal enterprise in the GOP House didn't talk about Hunter Biden too much for two years and now with Trump announcing for 2024, Garland appointing a SC, and GOP taking house, the criminals are talking?
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More evidence a SC is viewed by the criminal enterprise as a threat to be managed.
More evidence a SC is viewed by the criminal enterprise as a threat to be managed.
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Peter Thiel owns Ted Cruz and Joshua Hawley.
What about Tom Cotton?
Ted Cruz in 2013 at Ali Akbar's "Blog Bash" at CPAC.
Was Mike Flynn working with Akbar in 2013 or did Flynn's operations begin later and Flynn simply recognized Akbar's value?
Peter Thiel owns Ted Cruz and Joshua Hawley.
What about Tom Cotton?
Ted Cruz in 2013 at Ali Akbar's "Blog Bash" at CPAC.
Was Mike Flynn working with Akbar in 2013 or did Flynn's operations begin later and Flynn simply recognized Akbar's value?
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In 2013, Bought and Paid For Lying Ted was standing on a stage with Ali Akbar praising social media over mainstream media because Ted's handler's knew the power of social media in 2013 and had just purchased a useful idiot to run as a Senator.
Was it Ted's idea,
In 2013, Bought and Paid For Lying Ted was standing on a stage with Ali Akbar praising social media over mainstream media because Ted's handler's knew the power of social media in 2013 and had just purchased a useful idiot to run as a Senator.
Was it Ted's idea,
BREAKING: We just filed our amicus brief with SCOTUS in #MoorevHarper. We found hundreds of election laws and policies that would be vulnerable if the independent state legislature theory becomes law. They cover every aspect of voting, from registration to ballot counting.
If #SCOTUS adopts this baseless theory, it would upend federal elections by threatening:
* more than 170 state constitutional provisions
* more than 650 state laws
* 100s of state court decisions
* 1000s of rules and regulations
* more than 170 state constitutional provisions
* more than 650 state laws
* 100s of state court decisions
* 1000s of rules and regulations
TLDR: Independent state legislature theory = election chaos. Read our brief here: brennancenter.org/our-work/resea…
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Mr. Nunes’s committee, appeared to have sought to use intelligence to advance the political goals of the Trump administration.
Useful idiots at the time or co-conspirators?
Mr. Cohen-Watnick, 30, at the time was a former Defense Intelligence Agency official who served
Mr. Nunes’s committee, appeared to have sought to use intelligence to advance the political goals of the Trump administration.
Useful idiots at the time or co-conspirators?
Mr. Cohen-Watnick, 30, at the time was a former Defense Intelligence Agency official who served
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on the Trump transition team and was originally brought to the White House by Michael T. Flynn, the former national security adviser.
Russian Intel would have wanted to make use of useful idiot Cohen Watnick to get access to Intel on whether CIA was "spying" on Trump
on the Trump transition team and was originally brought to the White House by Michael T. Flynn, the former national security adviser.
Russian Intel would have wanted to make use of useful idiot Cohen Watnick to get access to Intel on whether CIA was "spying" on Trump
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Campaign since Russia was running the Trump Campaign through its agents, surrogates, and partners.
Russian operatives made use of co-conspirators and useful idiots from GOP House Freedom Caucus and used Devin Nunes on House Intel to feed fake Intel and to gin up a war
Campaign since Russia was running the Trump Campaign through its agents, surrogates, and partners.
Russian operatives made use of co-conspirators and useful idiots from GOP House Freedom Caucus and used Devin Nunes on House Intel to feed fake Intel and to gin up a war
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Michigan Republicans filed a lawsuit attempting to overturn the 2020 presidential election results in Michigan.
It is September 2022.
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It is September 2022.
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ICYMI: Republicans filed a lawsuit challenging the ability of Pennsylvania county boards of elections to create ballot curing procedures that allow voters to fix common and inadvertent errors on mail-in ballots to ensure their votes are counted.
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“My top-level, expert legal analysis of the [Trump Mar-a-Lago FBI search] affidavit is: Why ain’t this dude in jail? What does this man have to do to go to jail?”
@ElieNYC @DrJasonJohnson @CrossConnection
#TrumpStoleClassifiedDocuments #TrumpESPIONAGE
@ElieNYC @DrJasonJohnson @CrossConnection
#TrumpStoleClassifiedDocuments #TrumpESPIONAGE
“Just the classification markings referred to in this [redacted Mar-a-Lago search warrant] affidavit — made the hair on the back of my neck stand up… Literally human lives can be at stake.” @FrankFigliuzzi1
@NicolleDWallace #TrumpStoleClassifiedDocuments
@NicolleDWallace #TrumpStoleClassifiedDocuments
“There is a feeling here that [if] Merrick Garland decides not to prosecute Trump, how do you hold anyone else accountable for violating classification rules going forward in the U.S. government?”@JaxAlemany
@NicolleDWallace #TrumpStoleClassifiedDocuments
@NicolleDWallace #TrumpStoleClassifiedDocuments
“This was not just extreme carelessness with classified material, which is still totally disqualifying. This is calculated, deliberate, premeditated misconduct — a cover-up [with] false statements and lies to Congress and the American people.” #LockTrumpUp
“Trump’s attorney, Alina Habba, says that Trump wants the Department of Justice to release the names of the witnesses who helped secure the search warrant for Mar-a-Lago.”@therecount
#TrumpIsANationalSecurityRisk #TrumpCrimeSyndicate
#TrumpIsANationalSecurityRisk #TrumpCrimeSyndicate
CPAC 2022: “We are all domestic terrorists.”
“#EspionageAct [doesn’t] mention classification at all. It talks about a specific type of information: national defense… The real question is, why would Trump WANT to declassify secrets that could harm the U.S.?”
.@AshaRangappa_ @TiffanyDCross @thereidout
.@AshaRangappa_ @TiffanyDCross @thereidout
“Trump has still not said a word of explanation as to why he took the documents, why he did not return them all, and what he was doing with them for over 18 months.” @AWeissmann_
🎶: #stilloneblackmansopinion tiktok.com/@stilloneblack…
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“[Donald Trump] has betrayed our national security, and he will do so again… You will not change him. You cannot constrain him. He is who he is. Truth matters little to him. What’s right matters even less, and decency matters not at all.” Adam Schiff
SCOTUS "agreement to hear Moore v. Harper... isn’t just bad news for efforts to control gerrymandering.
The Court’s right-wing supermajority is poised to let state lawmakers overturn voters’ choice in presidential elections."
#SCOTUSIsCorrupt
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The Court’s right-wing supermajority is poised to let state lawmakers overturn voters’ choice in presidential elections."
#SCOTUSIsCorrupt
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"Trump then tried and failed, lawlessly, to muscle the GOP state legislators into discarding Biden’s victory and appointing Trump electors instead.
The Moore case... could give Republicans legal cover in 2024 to do as Trump demanded in 2020."
#ISLtheory
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The Moore case... could give Republicans legal cover in 2024 to do as Trump demanded in 2020."
#ISLtheory
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"That is a genuinely radical proposition...
The idea that legislatures stand unbound by any limit from their own founding documents is a fringe debating point invented for Republican political advantage."
#ISLtheory
#TrumpCoupAttempt
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The idea that legislatures stand unbound by any limit from their own founding documents is a fringe debating point invented for Republican political advantage."
#ISLtheory
#TrumpCoupAttempt
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“WE COULDN’T BELIEVE there were enough people to walk alongside them. One morning we woke up from an uneasy sleep and there was no more laughter…It mustn’t happen again. We can’t let it. We simply can’t let it happen again.”
Twilight Zone 1963 #NeverAgain
Twilight Zone 1963 #NeverAgain
“California [will] make our own insulin at a cheaper price, close to at cost, and to make it available to all…
Because in California, we know people should not go into debt to receive life-saving medication.”
@GavinNewsom @CAgovernor #Insulin4all #Insulin
Because in California, we know people should not go into debt to receive life-saving medication.”
@GavinNewsom @CAgovernor #Insulin4all #Insulin
“Freedom is under attack in [Florida]… In California [we] still believe in #freedom. Freedom of speech. Freedom to choose. Freedom from hate. And the freedom to love. Don’t let them take your freedom.”
Newsom DeSantis ad #IndependenceDay2022
@GavinNewsom:
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@GavinNewsom:
🚨Last week, the Supreme Court announced it would take up #MoorevHarper, a case that could end our democracy as we know it. Here’s what you need to know. 1/7
Earlier this year, North Carolina’s state supreme court rejected a new congressional map drawn by the state’s rightwing-controlled state legislature. The court said the maps violated the state constitution because they were too gerrymandered. 2/7
The rightwing state lawmakers behind the maps sued, resulting in #MoorevHarper, a case that argues that state legislatures—and state legislatures alone—have complete, unchecked control over federal elections. 3/7
Pat Cipollone: The rioters have gotten to the Capitol, Mark.
Mark Meadows: [Trump] doesn't want to do anything, Pat.
Pat: Mark, something needs to be done or people are going to die and the blood is going to be on your f—ing hands.
#January6thHearings:
Mark Meadows: [Trump] doesn't want to do anything, Pat.
Pat: Mark, something needs to be done or people are going to die and the blood is going to be on your f—ing hands.
#January6thHearings:
Liz Cheney: The night before #January6th, President* Trump instructed Mark Meadows to contact both Roger Stone and Michael Flynn regarding what would play out the next day.
#CassidyHutchinson: That’s correct. That is my understanding.
#January6thHearings
#CassidyHutchinson: That’s correct. That is my understanding.
#January6thHearings
Cheney: Did Rudy Giuliani [seek a] pardon related to January 6?
Cassidy Hutchinson: He did.
LC: Did Mark Meadows ever indicate that he was interested in receiving a Presidential pardon related to #January6th?
CH: Mr Meadows did seek that pardon. Yes ma’am.
Cassidy Hutchinson: He did.
LC: Did Mark Meadows ever indicate that he was interested in receiving a Presidential pardon related to #January6th?
CH: Mr Meadows did seek that pardon. Yes ma’am.
“That could be their vehicle to impose a NATIONWIDE BAN on abortion—on the order of the U.S. Supreme Court… They will now wield [power] however they want…to change the country however they want without restriction, and you must do what they say.”@maddow
“What makes people think that this radical conservative Supreme Court…would allow Congressional law protecting #RoeVWade? I’ll tell you the answer: THEY WON’T…as long as we let these 6 conservative theocrats control our country…”
@ElieNYC @TiffanyDCross
@ElieNYC @TiffanyDCross
“[Ben Wattenberg 1987 book says] ‘60% of fetuses that are aborted every year are white. If we could keep that 60% alive, that would solve our birth dearth.’ Does that sound like racism to you? And if it doesn’t, I want to know why it doesn’t.”
Jane Elliott
Jane Elliott
Just 3 minutes after President* Trump’s #January6th tweet at 2:24pm about Mike Pence lacking “courage,” a mob of his supporters quickly filled the Capitol.
#TrumpCoupAttempt #January6thCommitteeHearings
#TrumpCoupAttempt #January6thCommitteeHearings
“Dr. Eastman and President* Trump launched a campaign to overturn a democratic election, an action unprecedented in American history. Their campaign was…a coup in search of a legal theory.”
Judge David Carter 3/28/22
#TrumpCoupAttempt #January6thHearings:
Judge David Carter 3/28/22
#TrumpCoupAttempt #January6thHearings:
“I've lost my name [and] sense of security—all because a group of people…scapegoat[ed] me and my daughter Shaye, to push their lies about how the Presidential election was stolen.”
Ruby Freeman, former Georgia election worker
#LadyRuby #January6thHearings:
Ruby Freeman, former Georgia election worker
#LadyRuby #January6thHearings:
“President* Trump…followed the course recommended by an apparently inebriated Rudy Giuliani—to just claim he won and insist the vote counting stop. To falsely claim that everything was fraudulent… Millions of Americans believed him.”
#January6thHearings:
#January6thHearings:
“The Trump campaign knew these claims of voter fraud were false; yet, they continued to barrage small dollar donors, encouraging them to donate to ‘The Official Election Defense Fund.’ @January6thCmte discovered NO SUCH FUND EXISTED.”
#January6thHearings:
#January6thHearings:
“I said to him: ‘Are you out of your f—ing mind?’ I said, ‘I only want to hear two words coming out of your mouth from now on: ORDERLY TRANSITION.’”
White House lawyer Eric Herschmann to John Eastman 1/7/21
@AccountableGOP 🐼 #January6thCommitteeHearings:
White House lawyer Eric Herschmann to John Eastman 1/7/21
@AccountableGOP 🐼 #January6thCommitteeHearings:
“I made it clear I did not agree with the idea of saying the election was stolen…which I told [Donald Trump] was bullshit… The incumbent [cannot] stay in power based on its view unsupported by specific evidence there was fraud in the election.” Bill Barr
#January6thCommittee: “Did that affect your perspective about the election when Attorney General Barr made that statement?”
Ivanka Trump: “It affected my perspective. I respect Attorney General Barr, so I accepted what he was saying.”
#January6thHearings:
Ivanka Trump: “It affected my perspective. I respect Attorney General Barr, so I accepted what he was saying.”
#January6thHearings:
“Any legal jargon you hear about seditious conspiracy, obstruction of an official proceeding, and conspiracy to defraud the United States — all boils down to this: January 6th was the culmination of an attempted coup.”
Bennie Thompson
#January6thHearings:
Bennie Thompson
#January6thHearings:
