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The way the senate judiciary committee uses its official twitter is so bizarre.
They just released a statement calling for the FBI to investigate “current credible allegations” against Kavanaugh. As a committee, they said the allegations *are credible.* Then they tweet that op-ed.
The statement calling for an fbi investigation into “credible allegations” is sandwiched between partisan advocacy pieces on the official judiciary committee feed.
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This also needs context. More people are harmed by a federal government shutdown than federal employees. Native American communities, in particular, are immediately adversely affected. As the shutdown continues, the harms expand and multiply throughout the country’s population.
There are businesses that rely on the federal government as a customer—contractors of all sorts and sizes—and as a landlord—e.g. vendors at national parks. People who own and work for those businesses are harmed by the interruption of their income.
Scientists missing their grant funds, journalists who can’t access public records, inventors who can’t get their patents, entrepreneurs who can’t get business licenses ... This bit of context is, in all likelihood, barely scratching the surface of harms flowing from the shutdown.
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You can copy the black highlighted “redactions” in the Manafort team’s filing, paste it somewhere else, and see what it says. Here’s the first one. assets.documentcloud.org/documents/5677…
The sentence @jonswaine reported is in the second redaction.
A few follow-ups for the completists among you.
-The Manafort team refiled its document to fix the redactions.
-The court has ordered the govt to file the "factual and evidentiary basis" of the five breaches it alleges next Monday 1/14; Manafort will have until 1/18 to reply
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Document: SDNY indictment of Natalya Veselnitskaya documentcloud.org/documents/5677…
The government is disclosing in this indictment that they've got access to Veselnitskaya's communications with other Russians, including the Russian prosecutor general's office and Petr Katsyv.
Imagine the process of getting a warrant approved to secretly observe the privileged email traffic of a member of the defense team--who's in contact w US defense lawyers--in a case where the US govt is the opposite party. What kind of evidence must they have shown that judge?
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Here is an actual clause of the #USConstitution:

“...no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.”

US Constitution, Article VI, Clause 3

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Suppose that Article VI had a further Clause, Clause 4, that stated, “no racial identity shall ever be the basis for a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.”
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Here's more.
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I'm betting that the FBI is in the process of getting a hold of these people now, if they haven't already. There was some clarification necessary, which came from Trump today regarding how far the probe could go.
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I'm confused.

Wasn't one of the talking points from the Dems that Trump has to order the FBI to investigate Kav now since they've already declined?
The Judiciary Committee will ask the White House to instruct the FBI to conduct the investigation into "current credible allegations" against Kavanaugh with the provision it ends no later than Friday, October 5.

cnn.com/2018/09/28/pol…
So they ask Trump to open a probe into Kav after the procedural vote on Saturday. Apparently they will stick to only the current allegations. However the Soros funded liberals will dump more gasoline over the weekend to try to burn this down. How many more allegations?
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Republican Senator Flake says it would be proper to delay floor vote on Kavanaugh for up to one week
MORE: Flake says time would allow for an FBI investigation into allegations
MORE: Flake says would vote to advance Kavanaugh nomination to full Senate under those terms
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What are Anita Hill’s critiques of what she encountered from the Senate Judiciary Committee? No clear process, a rush to a vote, and failure to call all relevant witnesses. She sees the same problems with the #Kavanaugh hearing. Hill calls for valuing the humanity of victims.
She then called out @OrrinHatch for comparing her to the exorcist. @SenMikeLee, a room of 600 of your constituents are listening to Anita Hill and looking for better from our Utah representatives. And we’re all registered to vote.
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