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Big news out of Washington state this morning: The state's death penalty law has been struck down as unconstitutional and all current death sentences (eight, I believe) converted to life in prison.
Here's the full opinion, which the Washington Supreme Court bases on the state's constitution, so it cannot be appealed to #SCOTUS: courts.wa.gov/opinions/pdf/8…
Here's my breaking news report —> Washington State's Death Penalty Is Unconstitutional, The State's Supreme Court Rules buzzfeed.com/chrisgeidner/w…
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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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#SCOTUS, Jan. 8, 2019. With most of the sights in DC shut down, the Supreme Court is drawing a big crowd even for relatively low-profile cases.
It's a one-box Tuesday here at #SCOTUS, meaning one or two decisions in argued cases should be coming at 10a.
The first decision is Justice Kavanaugh's first majority opinion, in Henry Schein, Inc. v Archer & White Sales, Inc., vacating the 5th Circuit in an arbitration case. The decision was unanimous. #SCOTUS
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Trump: Day 693
-Mulvaney New 'Acting' Chief of Staff
-Giuliani Sz Nobody Killed or Robbed
-Inaugural Funds Went 2 Trump Org
-Sz GM's Electric Cars Won't Work
-Judge Rules ACA Unconstitutional
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-6 Year Anniversary of #SandyHook
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Day 798 since Donald Trump admitted to sexual assault — yet he’s still in the Oval Office
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Day 649 of NO EVIDENCE produced by Trump that his phones were tapped by Obama.

The FISA warrant Trump referenced targeted Carter Page. #TrumpLies
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This is horrifying and yet not the first time the NC GOP has tried to seize control of an election board. The courts may eventually stop them, but perhaps not until after these fraudulent boards have done their damage. The DNC must file a motion for a preliminary injunction....1/
...if legally viable, which I have not analyzed. 2/
3/ In 2016, when NC elected a Dem governor, shocked Rs unilaterally restructured the election board to maintain control. Although the court held the restructuring to be unconstitutional, the restructuring will remain in place until AFTER the midterm results are certified.
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Yes, the Republicans were fantastic on black voting rights in the 1860s.

But how about now?

What happens if we look at what's going on now instead of what happened a century and a half ago? If we look at the 2010s instead of the 1860s?
In 2013, the Republican majority on the Supreme Court eviscerated the Voting Rights Act in the landmark case of Shelby v. Holder.

As @fivefifths noted here, the results of that wrongheaded decision have been devastating to minority voting rights. theatlantic.com/politics/archi…
The GOP in North Carolina was especially egregious.

Republicans there instituted a series of new voting restrictions that federal courts later struck down as unconstitutional, because they targeted African Americans "with almost surgical precision." thenation.com/article/the-su…
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Attorney General Sessions Issues Statement on Judicial Ruling Declaring California Senate Bill 50 Unconstitutional

@drawandstrike @HNIJohnMiller @catesduane @rising_serpent @_ImperatorRex_ @Debradelai @GodlessNZ @almostjingo @tracybeanz @TheChiIIum

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Today, Attorney General Jeff Sessions issued the following statement regarding the court’s ruling in the Eastern District of California declaring California Senate Bill 50 (SB 50) unconstitutional:
“The court’s ruling is a firm rejection of California’s assertion that, by legislation, it could dictate how and when the federal government sells federal land.
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When I went to high school in the 1980s, "Gun Free Zones" were on advertisements on TV as a new thing, and we were being told not to bring guns to school as a new law. I never saw guns at school. @KyleKashuv's teachers probably never saw guns at school ever. See what happened?
Nationally in 1990 the Orwellian "Gun Free Zones" turned our entire nation into targets, legislation made by our Communist Obama VP Joe Biden.

California aligned their law with the above in 1995.

The Federal 1990 act was unconstitutional, and amended on technicality in 1995.
I searched and searched the Internet, and I cannot find any data yet about when California made it illegal to have a firearm on school grounds, which was the law before 1995, but I don't think it was the law my whole life.
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NOW: #DeseraeTurner and family await sentencing for ColterPeterson, one year after Peterson lured her to a Smithfield trail and shot her in the head. Peterson was charged as an adult. Follow this thread for the latest updates. @abc4utah
Turner is seated in front of me. She still has short curly brown hair. Court is expected to start any minute. Defendant has not yet entered the courtroom. #happeningnow #deseraeturner #logan #cachecounty
Peterson and accomplish entered guilty pleas to attempted aggravated murder last year, and aggravated robbery charges were dropped. The teens lured Turner to a trail, stole her cell phone and $55 after shooting her. #DeseraeTurner
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