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FINALLY, direct question on the Supreme Court and court packing. #DemocraticDebates
Biden is a NO on court packing.
Now, @PeteButtigieg is pro court packing, court reform.

Unfortunately he's now talk about his 5-5-5 plan which I'm pretty sure is unconstitutional but whatever.
@PeteButtigieg Castro is a NO on court packing.

But yes on term limits.
@PeteButtigieg Jesus freaking christ. TERM LIMITS are not constitutional. COURT PACKING is. Why is this HARD to understand?
@PeteButtigieg Warren is equivocal on Court packing.
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We need a Department of Justice investigation into Joshua Brown's murder, only we can't ask for one because Bill Barr has shown himself to be entirely corrupt and untrustworthy.

And that means there is literally no "law enforcement" official who can be trusted by anybody black.
It should seem like a problem, to America, that it's asking 15% of the population to be WILLFULLY IGNORANT in order to swallow the official account from LAW ENFORCEMENT, but the extent to which this country expects black people to be lied to and just *accept it* knows no depth.
Now let me translate this for the general white audience: I cannot get people to CARE about Russia or Ukraine when your police are out here murdering and lying. I can't make the case that "Candidate X will fix it" when the whole SYSTEM pisses in our ears and tells us it's weed.
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It is increasingly obvious that the Trump admin played this entirely wrong and if they just had *any* respect for the rule of law they would have gotten away with it.

Consider a world where they let the whistleblower complaint proceed, unimpeded, to Congress:
* Congress has the complaint, but can't really talk about it. They make noises about "explosive" new allegations, ramping up expectations, but can't release the full thing.

* Giuliani doesn't go on television acting a fool.
* Trump admin drags its feet on declassifying it, pissing off Congress and taking some heat, but not that much since we're all inured to Trump crimes.

* Congress attempts to investigate, mainly behind closed doors, but all the Trump stooges close ranks.

* Weeks pass.
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It’s amazing how small @DevinNunes looks when he has to speak after @RepAdamSchiff.

I’m surprised Nunes doesn’t sue Schiff for “defamation” for setting the bar too high for him to reach :).
@DevinNunes @RepAdamSchiff For those playing along at home: it appears that McGuire substituted his definition of "urgent" for the IG's definition (which he's not allowed to do). And then he's arguing that there was an exec priv issue, but @RepAdamSchiff just made him admit that the WH never asserted it.
@DevinNunes @RepAdamSchiff Schiff is establishing that McGuire went to the white house first. Not the DOJ, and clearly not Congress.

After trying to avoid saying "we went to the White House, first," Schiff got him to say "we went to the white house first" by feigning confusion. Schiff is a clever clogs
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I’m going to live tweet the @acs plenary panel “The Possibilities and Perils of Supreme Court Reform.”
I’m a critic of court-packing, FYI. 👇
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@Dahlialithwick: The swing of the Court to the right: “Who did this to us? We did this to us. There is a gap between voters on the left and right on judicial nominations.”
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Gather round, friends as we settle into Day Two of Kavanaugh confirmation hearings!

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Reminder: no good mornings for Grassley
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