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1. @SenSchumer: McConnell politicized #SCOTUS more recently than any time since the 1930s. I advance a political theory of the court.

I interpreted Schumer to say the Court's jurisdiction will be in his hands. He's warning them of the revolution they are about to start.
2. Should he keep that a secret? The court is already fully politicized. Schumer is reminding Roberts he can be removed with a 2/3 Senate vote. If we sweep the Fascists we control in 322 days. We could add a dozen justices if we wanted to. Schumer was reminding him
3. it's our court, not the radical right's court. Chuck didn't threaten violence. He threatened a peaceful revolution. That's not something he should keep to himself.

I think this is going to be the best #StPatricksDay ever. 😎
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1. I am a 30 year Bankruptcy professional. Delaware was for most of Joe's time in the Senate the center of the Bankruptcy ecosystem. He made Wilmington comparable to Zurich based on the amount of money that changed hands there. I'd consider that a compliment for a politician. 😎
2. I think Bankruptcy amendment everyone is griping about are the Chapter 13 changes in the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act. That's when I stopped doing consumer cases.
3. It was a terrible law but it passed in Denny Hastert's House and by a partisan 74-25 vote in the Senate. If we are going to have a discussion on Bankruptcy reform, count me in. If we're going to re-litigate the Bush43, days we're toast. @ewarren @JoeBiden @maddow @Lawrence
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Tim Hogan
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1. To people in Europe wanting to help Turkey in Idlib: It's not in your counties interest. Your support would mean you are giving material support to both Al-Qaeda & ISIS. That's much of who's in Erdogan's jihadist army. Turkey and its army has to leave Syria or war continues.
2. Upon Turkey's force withdrawal UN peacekeepers need to be put in Idlib, pending recovery, and completion of the Geneva process. Anything else is going to cause more war, refugees and suffering. We can fix this mess. But we need to focus on who is the immediate security threat.
3. A a mobile Ottoman jihadist Al-Qaeda & ISIS army armed with Stingers is a threat to everyone but Erdogan. @UNGeneva @RefugeesCE @USEmbassySyria @CENTCOM @WHNSC
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Tim Hogan
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1. Until @FiveThirtyEight unlocks the poll, I'm going with pre-SuperTuesday data. Here is how it looked for this coming Tuesday's #MichiganPrimary. You don't have to be good at math to see what @MikeBloomberg suspending is likely to do for Biden. So Joe looks to me likely to win.
2. Then the campaign rolls into #StPatricksDay and Biden should steamroll in these states:

Florida
Illinios
Ohio.

The only one that @SenSanders has a shot on March 17 is #ArizonaPrimary and I would not bet the farm on that if I were Sanders.
3. And then it gets really bad for Bernie.

He doesn't have a path. His followers need to be ready for what appears likely. I sympathize and I think we all should just disengage for a bit. Next week Wednesday we should talk about beating Trump. And fixing what's wrong with US.
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Ellen L Weintraub
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Today’s the 8th birthday of #SCOTUS’s affirmance of Bluman v. @FEC!

This critically important case held that the U.S. has a “compelling interest” in limiting the political activities of foreigners, thus protecting our political system from foreign political influence.

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The court concluded that Canadian lawyer Benjamin Bluman’s proposed activity was illegal: not just his three proposed $100 campaign contributions, but also merely paying to copy a flyer supporting President Obama’s re-election to hand out in Central Park.

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Then-Judge Brett Kavanaugh wrote the underlying opinion:“It is fundamental to the definition of our national political community that foreign citizens do not have a constitutional right to participate in, and thus may be excluded from, activities of democratic self-government.”/3
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@astellarwedding @CatHoffman14 1/ Trump has made the strong US economy a core part of his reelection campaign. The President routinely talks about how low the unemployment rate is and has worked to build a narrative that under his administration, the economy has improved significantly.
@astellarwedding @CatHoffman14 2/ Job growth has been robust under Trump but it still lags behind the pace set during the final two years of the Obama administration.
@astellarwedding @CatHoffman14 3/ From January 2017 through May 2019, the US economy has added an average of 195,000 new jobs every month, compared to 210,000 a month during 2015 and 2016.
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1/ Thread on Murphy v. Collier (Texas Buddhist execution case). The Court granted the stay on March 28. #SCOTUS
2/ At the time, J. Kavanaugh wrote a two-page concurrence to explain why he voted to stay the execution. J. Thomas and Gorsuch would have denied the stay, but did not explain their reasons.
3/ Monday yielded more developments in this month-old case. It is strange for a Justice to write a dissent to explain their decision a month earlier. It is even stranger for a Justice to respond to these late additions. Yet, this is precisely what happened.
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1/ .@NoahRFeldman writes that #SCOTUS will not disturb power of nationwide injunctions, bc such a ruling would create more work - "They would have to field requests constantly for nationwide injunctions in cases that haven’t yet been resolved by the lower courts."
2/ I disagree. Nationwide injunctions create far more work for the Justices. Whenever court of appeals declines to stay injunction, the federal gov runs to #SCOTUS for emergency stay. The Justices do not like these urgent matters, w/o the benefit of percolation.
3/ Moreover, there is little difference between parties asking SCOTUS to make an injunction "nationwide," and parties asking SCOTUS to affirm a district court's grant of a preliminary injunction.
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That moment when Q drops the most intel he has in weeks, and you're on the road travelling all day! 😩
I know I'm late to the party folks, but I'm back and ready to rock! 🤓🙏🏻😎

This will be my QThread for January 6th.
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The History of RBG.
Ruth is a radical socialist who was appointed by Bill Clinton to provide #SCOTUS protections for the DS. Q linked an article that summarizes the radical views of Ginsburg. humanevents.com/2005/08/23/sen…
3. Ruth Bader Ginsburg is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. RBG was appointed by Bill Clinton and took the oath of office on August 10, 1993.
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Amanda Hollis-Brusky
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#SCOTUS has become powerful. But largely because we (our politics) have asked it, even required it to become so. We can take that power back - it starts with Congress not delegating away so much of its power through ambiguous statutes or statutes enforced through litigation. 1/
2/ but it also involves a recognition from public interest lawyers, social movements and their founders that #SCOTUS is neither a reliable nor safe alternative to the hard work of grassroots organizing, state by state strategies and lobbying. We have to get back to politics.
3/ now might be a good time to read some classics like Gerald Rosenberg’s “The Hollow Hope,” Gordon Silverstein’s “Law’s Allure” that illustrate the perils of choosing courts over legislatures to achieve policy aims.
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