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Remember the viral photo of the woman on her bicycle who flipped off Trump's motorcade?

That's @julibriskman and she just won a Virginia election. huffpost.com/entry/juli-bri…
@julibriskman Briskman lost her job over that photo in 2017.

“Two years ago I was fired for standing up to the backwards agenda of Donald Trump," she told me tonight. "But now my neighbors in Algonkian District have backed me up and rejected the Trump agenda." huffpost.com/entry/juli-bri…
It's Briskman's first stint in public office and she just unseated an eight-year incumbent Republican. Not bad.
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JUST IN: Every Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee just voted to advance Steven Menashi's nomination to a lifetime seat on a US circuit court. huffpost.com/entry/steven-m…
He denounced women’s rights and diversity. He refused to answer GOP and Dem senators’ questions. He may be tied up in Trump's Ukraine scandal. He's never tried a case.

Republicans are ready to make Steven Menashi, 40, a lifetime federal judge anyway. huffpost.com/entry/steven-m…
Some other things to know about Steven Menashi.

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Well well. The Senate Judiciary Committee just postponed its vote on Steven Menashi -- again.

That's not a good sign for his nomination.
Who is Steven Menashi?

He's one of Trump's most controversial nominees yet for a lifetime federal judgeship. He's only 40 2) he refused to answer senators' ?s about his legal work for Trump and 3) he said all this stuff.
Some other things to know about Menashi, up for a lifetime seat on a US appeals court.

He's never tried a case. He's never argued an appeal. He's written piles of editorials attacking women's rights and diversity. He's been legal counsel to Stephen Miller + Betsy DeVos.
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A thing that happened today that won't get much attention: Senate Republicans confirmed *another* lifetime federal judge who earned a rare and embarrassing "not qualified" rating by the American Bar Association. huffpost.com/entry/justin-w…
In this case, it was Justin Walker.

He's 37. He's never tried a case in court -- as lead or co-counsel. And in the 10 years since he graduated from law school, it's not clear how much he's been practicing law. huffpost.com/entry/justin-w…
Walker is the FIFTH Trump judge that Senate Republicans have confirmed with an abysmal "not qualified" rating by the ABA.

For context, in 8 years, Obama nominated approximately 0 people to be judges who got a "not qualified" rating. huffpost.com/entry/justin-w…
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