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In all of American history, there has _never_ been a federal judge whose final confirmation vote was determined by a vice-presidential tiebreaker...
(In 1986, then-Vice President George H.W. Bush unnecessarily broke a tie on a procedural motion with respect to the confirmation of Judge Daniel Manion, but the final vote to confirm him was 48-46.)
For more background, see @SamuelPMorse's fascinating essay in the @CardozoLRev:

cardozolawreview.com/the-constituti…
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A reminder that we could hear from #SCOTUS as early as today with respect to whether it will continue or vacate Chief Justice Roberts’s administrative stay of the contempt citation against the unnamed foreign company that apparently defying a Mueller-related grand jury subpoena.
For a thorough explainer on how we got here and what the issues (probably) are, see this @just_security post by @KeitnerLaw:

justsecurity.org/62068/decipher…
(And if you weren’t already following her, you should follow @KeitnerLaw.)
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There must just not have been room in the headline for “and repeatedly stalking and harassing her after she said no.”

Come on, @NRO—do better.
For the numerous ways @nro has quietly backpedaled from this preposterous headline, see @MaxKennerly’s thread:

@NRO has now deleted the tweet with the preposterous headline, but here’s a screenshot:
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How messed up are the #GTMO military commissions? Read the DC Cir. reply brief on how the judge in the capital trial of the alleged USS Cole mastermind willfully concealed an insurmountable ethical conflict that now requires vacatur of all of his rulings:

justsecurity.org/wp-content/upl…
One of the many troubling takeaways from the brief is how complicit the government has been in trying to obfuscate / otherwise downplay the judge's flagrant violation of various ethical rules here—& how much it might have succeeded but for what @carolrosenberg uncovered via FOIA.
And the timeline that comes through from the FOIA disclosures with regard to how Judge Spath's potential (& pending) future employment as an immigration judge could reasonably be feared to have influenced his decisionmaking as the trial judge in Al-Nashiri is, in a word, damning:
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Presidential Proclamation Announcing the Death of George H.W. Bush

***Obviously I'm running behind on this.***

@drawandstrike @HNIJohnMiller @catesduane @rising_serpent @almostjingo @tracybeanz @TheChiIIum @hfinch63

whitehouse.gov/presidential-a…
It is my sorrowful duty to announce officially the death of George Herbert Walker Bush, the forty-first President of the United States, on November 30, 2018.
President Bush led a great American life, one that combined and personified two of our Nation’s greatest virtues: an entrepreneurial spirit and a commitment to public service. Our country will greatly miss his inspiring example.
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President George H.W. Bush had positives and negatives, and the history books should remember both. I’m going to share one positive I remember about Bush from my childhood. And it involved David Duke...
I was fourteen, too young to know which party truly stood for what thing, or what my own ideology was. I was disturbed when David Duke from the KKK became a major party nominee for Governor. Like, how could this happen in 1991 America?
But then President Bush stood up and said Republicans shouldn’t vote for Duke because he was a racist, and they should just let the Democrat win that race instead. It had a big impact on me as a kid...
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Pres. George H.W. Bush launched war of aggression & invaded Iraq in 1991. For first time, depleted uranium was deployed by military (300+ tons of DU). Bombings released toxins into air. This resulted in "Gulf War illness," killing hundreds of thousands of troops & Iraqis #RIP41
Pres. George H.W. Bush also invaded Panama in act of aggression to overthrow country's government in 1989. Thousands were killed, buried in mass graves hidden from Panamanians. All documented in "Panama Deception": #RIP41
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From @RSPolitics in 1988: rollingstone.com/politics/polit… #RIP41
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George H.W. Bush, 41st president of the United States, dead at 94 fxn.ws/2FSBLC6 #FoxNews
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Does Mueller Have an October Surprise? americanthinker.com/articles/2018/… via @AmericanThinker
Larence Walsh in 1960, was a Deputy AG

Given 6 years and an unlimited budget, Walsh indicted 6 former Reagan officials on dubious and evergreen perjury and obstruction charges-- none served any prison time and all were later pardoned.
2 others, Oliver North and John Poindexter, were convicted on a number of counts, but both had all convictions overturned on appeal.

There was never anything after 6 years of painstaking and dogged investigation linking the then Vice-President George H.W. Bush to Iran-Contra
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