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BREAKING: Supreme Court will take up Trump’s broad claims of protection from investigation.

SCOTUS's decision to get involved represents a historic moment that will test the justices and the Constitution’s separation-of-powers design.
by @scotusreporter washingtonpost.com/politics/court…
@scotusreporter The Supreme Court’s ruling, expected by June, could finally release info Trump has desperately tried to hide. Or the justices could rule that Trump’s financial affairs are not legitimate subjects of inquiry so long as he remains in office.
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@scotusreporter "The Supreme Court agreed to decide whether Trump can block the release of his financial records. The case will test the independence of the court, which is dominated by Republican appointees, including two named by Trump."

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Polly Sigh
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McConnell: Everything I do during this, I’m coordinating with White House Counsel and the president's lawyers. There will be no difference between the President’s position and ours.

"There's no chance the president will be removed from office."
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Polly Sigh
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YESSSSSSSS, @RepSwalwell!!!!! Knock down all that GOP BS about Trump giving a damn about fighting corruption!
@RepSwalwell Doug Collins is about to burst into a fit of angry tears in response to @RepSwalwell's take down.

@RepDougCollins must work on his anger management problem, then go to a good old fashioned movie with a friend. Chill Doug, chill.
@RepSwalwell @RepDougCollins .@RepSwalwell to @HouseGOP: "How many times did this 'anti-corruption president' meet with the most corrupt leader in the world, Vladimir Putin? Sixteen times between meetings and phone calls –– with ZERO pre-conditions. THAT's who you're defending." 🔥🔥🔥
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Polly Sigh
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SCOOP: SDNY asked a federal judge to revoke the bail of indicted Giuliani associate, Lev Parnas, for lying about his income and concealing a $1 million payment he got from RUSSIA in Sep 2019, a month before he was charged.

Russia, Russia, Russia.
#Maddow bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Who made the $1M payment from Russia to Lev Parnas, who, according to his lawyer John Dowd [who represented Trump in the Mueller probe], "assisted [Trump's free lawyer] Rudy Giuliani with his representation of President Trump"?
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Chris Ladd
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Late Friday the Supreme Court issued a ruling that will block any legally sanctioned disclosure of Trump’s tax returns until about next summer. For all practical purposes, they have terminated these investigations. [thread]
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#trumptaxreturns
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Our Supreme Court has chosen to use its power to protect the President and strip us of our ability to hold him accountable for crimes.
The continued secrecy of @realDonaldTrump's finances is an existential threat to our democracy.
Let me explain.
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Chris Geidner
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#SCOTUS agrees to take up Trump's attempts to keep New York and the House from getting his financial records, as well as two other cases.
The March arguments are quick, but still represent a delay for the House, especially since the decision won't likely come until June at that point. #SCOTUS, if it wanted to do so, could have resolved the cases much more quickly.
(In addition to not needing to take up the cases at all, which was another entirely possible option given that no courts below have sided with Trump.)
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Zoe Tillman
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BREAKING: The 2nd Circuit will not block a NY grand jury subpoena to Trump's accounting firm, finding Trump isn't likely to win arguing that any presidential immunity extends to something like this state grand jury investigation assets.documentcloud.org/documents/6538…
NOW: A federal appeals court will not block a grand jury subpoena for Trump's tax returns, rejecting Trump's argument that any "presidential immunity" that might shield him from criminal prosecution means he can't ever be investigated while in office.
buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…
The 2nd Circuit made clear it was not deciding if a sitting president might be immune against some criminal process. But if such immunity exists, it doesn't apply to a grand jury subpoena for private financial docs unrelated to his duties, the court held
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Rob Cassius 🧬
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Today's a huge day for the Supreme Court. It will impact when Roe. v. Wade is overturned.

I'll explain the details in this thread.

In the meantime pray! 🙏😁

#SCOTUS
Today, 10.1.2019, the Supreme Court holds its long conference, an annual meeting where they will decide which cases they want to hear this year.

All it takes is 4 justices to OK a case for them to hear it.

One case in particular has the power to dismantle #Roe.

#SCOTUS
The case that can overturn Roe is callee June Medical Services v. Gee.

It's about the Louisiana Law forcing abortionists to have admitting privileges at local hospitals,

The Supreme Court can choose to do 1 of three things with this law...

#SCOTUS
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#BREAKING:
Supreme Court agrees with lower court decision in part about census citizenship question...The government explanation to put the question on the form was “INVALID”
The citizenship question can not stand as it was out now, giving the census bureau another chance to “rephrase” the Citizenship question, back to the 4th circuit court #CENSUS2020.

My non legal professor opinion, this will not make it to the 2020 census.
Basically: the citizenship question is blocked for now.
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National Immigration Law Center
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BREAKING: Today the Supreme Court failed to uphold one of our founding principles — no indefinite detention. #SCOTUS held that immigrants can be detained indefinitely for a crime they might have been released from years ago, w/o an opportunity for bail. 1/ usatoday.com/story/news/pol…
This means immigrants who paid their debt to society years ago are forever subject to being torn apart from their families and placed in detention without a chance to make their case to be released on bail. 2/
As Justice Breyer referenced in his dissent, this means the threat of indefinite detention can apply to immigrants who may have just been fined or subject to probation, like for using an invalid bus transfer, or illegally downloading music. 3/
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