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Interesting to see a justice change the qualifier that X "may" have the *effect* of Y into a claim that the prior case asserted that X "often" is done for the *purpose* of Y. 👀

More from me about this at @UCILaw's #SCOTUS term in review on Monday!
Since I didn’t get to it today, here’s my issue: An area of Justice Thomas’s dissent in Flowers, about the potential media impact on the case. In that paragraph, Thomas misstates a reference to an earlier case — and then uses that misuse to the opposite end of the original case.
First two images, the 1981 case Thomas quotes from: caselaw.findlaw.com/us-supreme-cou… / Third image, Thomas’s Flowers dissent: supremecourt.gov/opinions/18pdf…
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Chris Geidner
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Trump’s Twitter today is incoherent, even for him.
Like, what even is this rant? (Also: Is he really filling the Rose Garden with the Social Media Summit attendees to announce what’s coming next with the Census, because, what?)
Lol. Four hours later, Trump deleted and retweeted out the four-tweet thread I noted in my "what even is this rant?" tweet. [He eliminated the @ AlfredENeuman99 tag and fixed the "1000/24th" ratio.]
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There is a whole lot to take in here, an ambitious, wide-ranging plan to address racism, racial disparities, and other race-related questions in America.
The criminal justice section alone would be an ambitious, wide-ranging plan:
Among the commitments Pete Buttigieg makes in the criminal justice section of his plan are cutting the prison population in half, ending federal drug possession prison sentences, reforming federal clemency, and supporting an end to the death penalty.
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If you want to know how much “qualified immunity” protects police from federal lawsuits for their actions, all you need to do is to look at this dissenting appeals court opinion from today in a case out of Georgia. media.ca11.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/f…
Criticism of the sweeping — and ever-expanding — scope of qualified immunity protections for law enforcement is bipartisan. Here’s a @CatoInstitute video describing their problems with it:
On the left, @JulianCastro’s strong policing reform plan includes a section calling for restricting qualified immunity. issues.juliancastro.com/people-first-p…
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Wrote some initial thoughts on what $FB Calibra wallet can bring to the payments landscape. TLDR; Facebook has positioned Calibra to benefit off a new design landscape for developers and businesses to come in and build value added fintech services on top-of Libra. A thread:
1/ We've seen this playbook before from Facebook via their Credits product, which launched its alpha almost a decade ago to the date. Media ate it up, buying into Facebook's projections that the virtual currency business system could one day be a "multi-billion dollar business"
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1/ Running thread as I read through the 88 pages (!) of Gamble v. US. First, I'll start w/ J. Alito's majority opinion #SCOTUS
2/ Gamble considered a draft of the Double Jeopardy Clause that was rejected. Alito says this draft should "count for little" bc "The private intent behind a drafter’s rejection of one version of a text is shoddy evidence of the public meaning of an altogether different text"
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EUROPEAN ELECTION PREVIEW THREAD

So here we are a day from finding out the results of an election that should not be happening. It will be a strange election which will make it a lot of fun.
the Brexit Party and Lib Dems will do well, Lab and the Tories will do terribly, possibly historically so.(In the Tories case, definitely historically so)
The results will be about momentum going into the next phase of Brexit. There will be enough in them for both sides of the EU argument to claim things are going in their direction regardless of if it is true or not.
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@bigredwavenow said this was #Interesting, lets see why...

Boeing 757-200
Delivered to USAF in August 2010

757-200 >> 7572 >> 21
2010 >> 21
JK >> 21

757-200 >> 19-20

19 - seclusion
20 - year of reveal

Since there is JK, what about CK?

CK >> 17 = 7+7

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77 52 >> 14 52 <> 14 25

14 << CK
25 - JFK Jr. Birthdate.

August 2010 >> 92 >> 11 - The Plan

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RTN >>
Modern - 52 <> 25 - JFK Jr. Birthdate
Pythagorean - 16 - Date of the Crash
Reverse Ordinal - 29 - JFK's Birthdate
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Reverse Full Reduction - 20 - Year of reveal
Chaldean - 11 - The Plan

28 >:> 14:14

CK >> 14 - Carolyn
LB >> 14 - Laura Bessette

Renton, Washington >> 216 (Modern & Rev. Ord)

216 >> 36 or 27

36 <> 63 - Year of JFK Assasination
27 << JFK
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