Lindsey Graham yesterday: "If [Democrats] get the House, the Senate and the White House, then God help us all. Puerto Rico will be a state."

"God help us" that something that's happened 37 times before might happen to...PR.🤔

Pray tell, what exactly is different here, Senator?
Puerto Rico's population is larger than 20 currently existing states.
While we're on the subject, it's important to remember:

They key point is not that Puerto Rico should *be* a state.

It's that Puerto Ricans should get to *decide* whether to become a state.

(mini thread from back in June👇🏾)
But somehow I don't think that👆🏾was Senator Graham's point...

(as evidenced by the fact that he lumped DC in with his prayer for God to "help us" against, you know, the expansion of the franchise)
Aaaaaaaand Google Chrome is trying to tell me that "Ricans" isn't a word. #SMDH

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This is a map of racial segregation in DC

A year ago, the local US Attorney adopted a new charging policy that doubled the prison time for 100s of affected defendants.

They said the policy applied citywide.

It didn't.

🚨It only ever applied in the Blackest parts of the city🚨 Image
When the U.S. Attorney announced the new policy at a press conference back in February of 2019 she said it applied to "essentially all" of the city.

There's no polite way to say this: That was a lie.

And she knew it was a lie when she said it.
How do I know this? My students and I have been fighting the policy for a year. And as the @washingtonpost now reports, the DOJ, responding to our briefs, recently admitted that they've been targeting the three Blackest precincts in the city from the start.washingtonpost.com/local/legal-is…
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Prosecutors are now charging the tweeter, and 5 RTers, with an 18 month felony.🧵
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You will be wrong.
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This is the strongest 4th Amendment lawsuit so far. Similar case in Denver won an order blocking tear gas as excessive force.
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