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The Rosenstein-Mueller investigation is making fast work of finding criminal activity: 35 indictments, five guilty pleas and one prison sentence in a little more than a year. #DefendDemocracy
Rosenstein-Mueller accomplishments to date include guilty pleas from senior Trump officials like Deputy Campaign Chairman Rick Gates for conspiracy against the United States related to Russia.
.@realDonaldTrump, what are you personally doing to fortify and defend America’s 2018 elections from Russian interference? The American people deserve to know.
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Hard to believe Senate Republicans are trying again to vote on the nomination of Thomas Farr as a federal judge in NC. Farr's represented the NC legislature in not 1, not 2, but 3 challenges to the state’s 2011 congressional and legislative redistricting. Here’s how that went:
In 2016-17, Farr represented NC in Covington v. NC, a challenge to the state’s 2011 legislative redistricting alleging each of NC’s 19 state House districts & 9 state Senate districts constituted a racial gerrymander violating the Equal Protection Clause. brennancenter.org/legal-work/nor…
In Covington v. NC, Farr argued that race was not the primary factor used in the redistricting. And even if it was, Farr argued the NC legislature’s use of race was reasonably necessary to comply with the Voting Rights Act. The trial court rejected this argument.
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RED ALERT: I'm announcing my strong opposition to Thomas Farr as a federal judge in North Carolina. @SenateGOP has set up a vote on his nomination after Thanksgiving.

Farr is a serious threat to voting rights. Americans need to tell Senate Republicans to block this nomination.
Farr defended the Republican-controlled North Carolina Legislature in a challenge to the restrictive voting laws it enacted shortly after the Supreme Court, led by Chief Justice Roberts, gutted the Voting Rights Act.
After gathering data on the use of certain voting practices broken down by race, the North Carolina Legislature drafted a law that targeted voting practices like early voting and same-day registration that were disproportionately utilized by African-American voters.
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The American people should look at what Republicans are doing, rather than what they’re saying, when it comes to health care.
Republicans are once again undermining protections for people with pre-existing conditions and sabotaging our health care system.
Today, the administration plainly admitted its intention is to use taxpayer dollars to fund junk insurance plans that don’t cover pre-existing conditions, which could lead to medical bankruptcy for many American families in order to pad the pockets of health insurance executives.
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I think I understand some of this succession stuff ... for the dummies like me out there: It only matter whether #Rosenstein was fired or resigned for his duties as deputy attorney general.
But he was overseeing the Mueller probe as the acting attorney general (because Sessions had to recuse).
Whoever replaces him as acting deputy attorney general (until Trump appoints someone new) cannot also perform the duties of acting attorney general. No "acting-acting" allowed.
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#Rosenstein’s remarks (about exercising the Fifth Amendment and wiring Trump) were clearly facetious. But it just occurred to me that this isn’t the point. 1/5
All the saboteurs on the Right might need to get Trump to stop #Rosenstein & the #Mueller investigation is the disclosure that there was a discussion that showed agency concern about Trump AT ALL. 2/5
It was reported early last month that Trump and Rosenstein had a “great relationship.”

It is hard to see how that kind of relationship can survive this NYT story, 3/5 tinyurl.com/yaaasm8j
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Operation STOP KAVANAUGH. Call Senators on the following tweets. Reach them at 202-224-3121. Ignore the naysayers. It's not over until it's over. Fight for our future. This is a LIFETIME appointment. Surely, we can make spend a few minutes and make some phone calls.

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If you and everyone you know who cares about this issue calls at least once we can Stop Kavanaugh. I have posted a link to a spreadsheet below that @resisterhood shared. For now, here's whom we need to call or email in order of importance.

docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…

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CONTACT via 202-224-3121

Senator Susan Collins of Maine
Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska
Senator Joe Donnelly of Indiana
Senator Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota
Senator Doug Jones of Alabama
Senator Claire McCaskill of Missouri
Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia

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House Freedom Caucus members filed Articles of Impeachment against
Deputy AG Rod #Rosenstein ("Mueller's boss") claiming he hasn't been responsive to their demands for documents regarding the #Mueller investigation.

What does it mean & what do we do? 1/5
thehill.com/policy/nationa…
The Articles of Impeachment against Rosenstein have been filed in a parliamentary "end run" around leadership and do not have the support of @SpeakerRyan or @TGowdySC.

No vote is expected anytime soon and it is highly unlikely the House would approve them anyways. 2/5
Since the Articles of Impeachment are almost certain to fail, it is likely they are being filed to give Trump a PRETEXT to fire Rosenstein.

Firing Rosenstein would let Trump replace him with a loyalist who could sharply curtail Mueller's investigation or even fire Mueller. 3/5
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Here's a thread on a HUGE implication for the Mueller-Rosenstein investigation that's gone under the radar.

This week, the Senate will take up Brian Benczkowski’s suspicious nomination to head the criminal division at the Department of Justice.
Benczkowski is not qualified. He’s never served as a prosecutor or tried a case — something the position has required all but once since 1990 given its oversight and management of the litigation strategy for hundreds of federal prosecutors.
In fact, Benczkowski's only qualification seems to be that he’s suspiciously refusing to recuse himself from the Mueller-Rosenstein investigation despite his deep conflicts.
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State of the #TrumpRussia investigation THREAD 1/8:

Despite President Trump's propaganda about #Mueller engaging in a 'Witch Hunt,' the facts betray a different narrative that is an existential threat to Trump's presidency.

h/t @Zac_Petkanas
Developments in #Mueller's probe have led to a panicked atmosphere among co-conspirators in the White House & their congressional allies.

There are 5 major reasons for this panic.

1) 23 indictments, 5 guilty pleas & 1 sentencing

2) Michael Cohen is close to flipping.

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5 reasons for White House panic continued...

3) Paul Manafort is now in jail for witness tampering & could also flip.

4) Trump operatives Roger Stone & Michael Caputo had yet more undisclosed contacts with Russians.

3/8
washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/w…
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