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Important note about today's Iowa Supreme Court decision striking down the state's 3-day waiting period to obtain an abortion: It is based on the Iowa Constitution, not the US Constitution. iowacourts.gov/courtcases/439…
And since the Iowa Supreme Court gets the final says on the Iowa Constitution, that's that on that.
Expect more of this focus on state constitutions and state supreme courts on the left as #SCOTUS moves right.
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BREAKING: Supreme Court denies the foreign country-owned company's request to stay a contempt order resulting from its refusal to comply with a grand jury's subpoena. Chief Justice Roberts' "administrative stay" is vacated, so the result is the contempt order is back in effect.
That order of the court follows this request, made Monday but put on the docket today, to file a cert petition in the case under seal. Not clear what will happen with that now, but the contempt order (and associated fines) will now be back in place.
REDACTED DOCUMENT: Here's the redacted motion at SCOTUS, noted previously, of what appears to be the foreign-owned company seeking to file its petition for certiorari in the grand jury dispute under seal. documentcloud.org/documents/5677…
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In the wake of yesterday's contentious hearing involving Concord in the Russian troll farm case, Concord's lawyers are STILL AT IT, in a new filing that could be one sentence and instead is four pages: documentcloud.org/documents/5677…
Here's @ZoeTillman on yesterday's hearing: buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…
Concord's lawyers say that Judge Dabney Friedrich created "at a minimum an appearance of bias or prejudice in favor of the government" yesterday.
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JUST IN: Natalia Veselnitskaya — the lawyer in the Trump Tower meeting — was indicted related to her alleged actions the Prevezon matter (a hearing for which she also attended on that day in June 2016) on Dec. 20, 2018. The case was unsealed today. assets.documentcloud.org/documents/5677…
Here's my report on this Very Interesting Development. —> The Russian Lawyer At The Trump Tower Meeting Was Indicted On Charges Of Obstructing Justice In A Money-Laundering Case buzzfeednews.com/article/chrisg…
Update: I just talked to Bill Browder about today's Veselnitskaya indictment news: Needless to say, he's happy. buzzfeednews.com/article/chrisg…
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Was George Washington really the 1st President of the United States?

Or have we all been deceived?

#AmericaFirst #Trump @realDonaldTrump #MAGA #DrainTheSwap #QAnon #TheGreatAwakening #Disclosure #TrustThePlan #Jan2019 #1stPresident
Washington, born in Virginia was the 1st President of the Executive Branch of the US for 8 years from April 30th, 1789 to March 4th, 1797.

But who was President before 1789?

#BREAKING #AmericaFirst #Trump @realDonaldTrump #MAGA #Disclosure #TrustThePlan #Jan2019
Washington was elected to be president unanimously by the electors of the States .

Some States were unable to vote as they had not yet Ratified The “New” Constitution.

#BREAKING #AmericaFirst #Trump @realDonaldTrump #MAGA #Disclosure #TrustThePlan #Jan2019
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Today the FL Supreme Court ruled that the next governor will appoint 3 justices to the Supreme Court. This decision makes November even more critical for the future of our state.
If @AndrewGillum is elected, out-of-state, radical groups would pressure him to appoint activist judges who would legislate from the bench to fit their own ideology. The consequences would be dangerous and felt for generations.
I promise to only appoint judges who will uphold the Constitution and follow the law as it is written. We must secure Florida's future.
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The Suffocation of Democracy

By: Christopher R. Browning

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As a historian specializing in the #Holocaust, #Nazi Germany, and #Europe in the era of the world wars, I have been repeatedly asked about the degree to which the current situation in the United States resembles the interwar period and the rise of #fascism in Europe.
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I would note several troubling similarities and one important but equally troubling difference.

In the 1920s, the US pursued #isolationism in foreign #policy and rejected participation in international organizations like the League of Nations.
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Thread on courts & poitics: In 1805, Chief Justice John Marshall, whose partisan Federalist colleague Samuel Chase was facing impeachment by Jeffersonians, wrote Chase a letter proposing "appellate jurisdiction in the legislature"--i.e., letting Congress reverse the Supreme Court
2/ It's remarkable because Marshall had recently established the practice of constitutional review in the famous Marbury v. Madison (1803). Here he was willing to walk back judicial supremacy itself in the face of political opposition.
3/ Such renegotiations have been regular occurrences. Lincoln, addressing the Dred Scott opinion in his inaugural (& facing Justice Taney, who had written it & had sworn him in," said that if the decision settled the matter, "the people will have ceased to be their own rulers"
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Last night I promised a thread about #abortion before Roe v Wade legalized it nationally. Until the mid-1800s, common law allowed abortion until "quickening", when fetal movement can be felt. Toxic abortion remedies & doctors competing w midwives led to… 1/
laws outlawing abortion except where pregnancy was likely to be fatal spreading across the country. Bottled abortion remedies could be and were fatal, and doctors, almost all white and male, didn't want midwives competing with them for pregnancy care. 2/
"In the late 1920s some 15,000 women a year died from [illegal] abortions…In 1971, the year after decriminalization, the maternal-mortality rate in New York State dropped 45%." 3/
theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…
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J. Thomas dissents from denial of cert in Silvester v. Becerra, which "California’s 10-day waiting period for firearms." CT writes "the Second Amendment is a disfavored right in this Court."
supremecourt.gov/orders/courtor…
J. Thomas made a similar point in a Dec. 2015 dissent-from-denial of cert. nationalreview.com/2015/12/second… There, J. Scalia joined him. Here, J. Thomas writes alone.
J. Thomas also praises Judges Batchelder (CA6), Elrod (CA5), and Kavanaugh (CADC) who disagree that 2nd Amendment claims should be evaluated under intermediate scrutiny.
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