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Clever move by the script writers to introduce Chief Justice Roberts into the plot at the end of season two, foreshadowing a big role for the Roberts Supreme Court in handling Mueller-related appeals in season three.
Also Roberts will preside at the Senate trial early in season four after Trump’s impeached at the end of season three.
That first episode of Season Four is going to be lit: The impeachment trial begins in the Senate the day after the New Hampshire primary, as the political world digests the implications of Nikki’s upset victory over Trump and Beto’s rout of the field of 22 on the Democratic side.
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1. A short thread on regime change
Yesterday I asked "Shouldn’t an important U.S. foreign policy goal of the next couple of decades be regime change in China?" The question implies that I think the right answer is Yes. I gather there's been a bit of a reaction to this suggestion.
2. I'm glad to have stimulated some debate, and I hope some re-thinking. I'll put my position simply. The case for regime change shouldn't really be controversial. The U.S. at its best has always stood for the proposition that all people everywhere deserve to be free.
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1. Abraham LIncoln, July 10, 1858:
"We find a race of men living in that day whom we claim as our fathers and grandfathers; they were iron men, they fought for the principle that they were contending for; and we understood that by what they then did it has followed that...
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3. "...and we go from these meetings in better humor with ourselves---we feel more attached the one to the other, and more firmly bound to the country we inhabit. In every way we are better men in the age, and race, and country in which we live for these celebrations.
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Supreme Court ruled Commerce Clause of Constitution DOES NOT permit Medicare for ALL. National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius, 2012. This SCOTUS case says that the federal government cannot force anyone to buy a product or use a service; if they have inactivity.
Raising taxes or mandating a Tax in a law, is completely different from forcing Americans to buy a service or product. Obamacare was a TAX. Supreme Court declared Obamacare a Tax. The Tax can be enforced or modified but it is NOW set to ZERO, per Tax Cuts & Jobs Act, 2017.
Texas judge on Friday (who struck down Obamacare) reiterated what Chief Justice Roberts said; which was economists who argue against inactivity does not pass the Commerce Clause test. SCOTUS said regulating activity is completely different from forcing someone to become active.
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CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS & ENTIRE FISA COURT WILL BE IMPEACHED

1) Speculation, but makes sense if you follow me.
Per Q 11/9/18:
A) How can arrests occur prior to removing the corruption from the DOJ & FBI?
>They can't. See THE PLAN below.
#QAnon #Sealedindictments
2) B) How can arrests occur prior to safely securing a majority in the SUPREME COURT [CONSTITUTION - RULE OF LAW]
>They can't. See THE PLAN below.
C) What is the role of the SENATE?
>To confirm appointments and to hold impeachment trials.
Role of GOODLATTE?
#QAnon #MAGA
3) >Chairman of House Judiciary Committee (Oversight of DOJ, FBI, Federal Judiciary… BUT ALSO MOST COMMONLY THE COMMITTEE WHERE IMPEACHMENT PROCEEDINGS IN THE HOUSE ORIGINATE).
#QAnon #Sealedindictments
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Was this a ‘sudden’ retirement for Justice Kennedy?

How long has he been mulling it over?

And why now for God’s sake?

Why at this singular moment in history?

Something stinks
Of course we could follow the money

🤔

Maybe he knows one of Mueller’s lines of investigation led to him. And he knew staying in that position of power was too steep a conflict of interest in light of the overwhelming and damning facts against Trump he may have gotten wind of.
Ppl need to remember we’re dealing w/potential historic US Constitutional changes in light of Trump’s abuses of Office.

We’re on new ground imo

Who’s to say the SC office hasn’t ‘already’ secretly conferred with the Justices over the Constitutionality of this Trump debacle?
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Chief Justice Roberts bristled at Justice Sotomayor’s comparison of his #TravelBan decision to Korematsu. Why? Because the truth hurts.
And some ways, this decision is even more shameful: slate.com/news-and-polit…
Korematsu is dead, long live the new Korematsu:
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3/ “if Kennedy retires, his mixed legacy on civil liberties will end on a shameful note, denying voting rights and ignoring evidence of bad-faith religious discrimination. The majority seemed genuinely concerned with anti-religious bias in Masterpiece Cakeshop, but...”
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3/ Here’s SG Francisco’s earlier misrepresentation from oral argument. His “correction” a week later, three sentences, was so minimal that it shows how deliberately he was otherwise misleading the Court on Trump’s animus and how the ban actually worked.
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1.Zainab Ahmed
Ahmed is an expert in prosecuting terrorism and organized crime, Zainab Ahmad previously served as an assistant US attorney for the Eastern District of New York. She joined #TeamMueller in the summer of 2017.
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#MuellerTime
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