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@JCNSeverino
Sep 19, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a trailblazer who dedicated her life to public service. Her intelligence, hard work, and commitment brought her to the pinnacle of her profession. #RBG /1
Justice Ginsburg was only the second woman appointed to #SCOTUS. She has been a role model and helped pave the way for all people who wish to dedicate their lives to public service. /2
Despite her judicial philosophy, she was recommended by Senator Orrin Hatch, supported by Senators Mitch McConnell and Chuck Grassley, and confirmed almost unanimously. /3
Following the Kavanaugh confirmation where liberal activists made a circus of the hearings, Ginsburg was critical of how contentious the confirmation process had become. She lamented how it had changed: “I wish I could wave a magic wand and make it go back to the way it was.” /4
I look forward to seeing how the process unfolds. #RBG /5

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May 9
Justice Sotomayor just told an ABA audience that “Our job is to stand up” and that “we can’t lose the battles we are facing.” Also: “We need trained and passionate and committed lawyers to fight this fight.”

That makes a mockery of any appearance of objectivity in cases challenging the administration or involving the ABA.

nytimes.com/2025/05/09/us/…Image
As if to reinforce that she’s taking sides, she said, “For me, being here with you is an act of solidarity.” This was directed to an organization with a voluminous list of legislative issues on which it takes positions—see this 148-page document...
americanbar.org/content/dam/ab…
...which is to say nothing of the many cases in which the ABA files amicus briefs, including United States v. Skrmetti. Image
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Aug 28, 2024
🚨 Remember radical Rachael Rollins? The disgraced Biden-nominated U.S. attorney for the District of Massachusetts who was only confirmed because Vice President Kamala cast the tie-breaking vote after the Senate deadlocked.

This was Rollins in 2021 berating and threatening to arrest local reporters for attempting to interview her outside her home about a misconduct allegation.
Rollins was infamously forced to resign after an investigation by the Biden-Harris Department of Justice into her misconduct found that she "falsely testified under oath" about leaking "sensitive DOJ" information to the press to help a Democrat win their primary campaign. Image
Senate Republicans like @TedCruz, @LeaderMcConnell, and @TomCottonAR fought hard against Rollins’ nomination because she was a soft-on-crime district attorney who was backed by other Soros-connected DAs and defund the police advocates.
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Jul 1, 2024
🧵In United States v. Trump the Court crafted a sensible line regarding immunity that balances the historical presumption that presidents are subject to some potential liability for their actions with the president’s need to be able to exercise executive power under Article II without courts second-guessing his judgment.
The Court noted the threat to a President’s ability to do his job boldly if he were immediately faced with a bevy of lawsuits upon leaving office—something that until recently was almost unheard-of but may be part of the new normal in our current environment of lawfare and polarization.
Going forward, courts determining whether an action is covered by immunity will begin by assessing the President’s authority to take that action. Courts cannot consider a president's motives when making this assessment.

Today's decision says that such a “highly intrusive” inquiry would risk exposing even the most obvious instances of official conduct to judicial examination on the mere allegation of improper purpose.
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Jun 28, 2024
🧵Good riddance to Chevron deference, which put a two-ton judicial thumb on the scale of government bureaucrats against the little guy.

This is a big victory for the rule of law. Image
In these cases, the National Marine Fisheries Service claimed without statutory authorization the right to force fishing boats to pay government monitor salaries of up to 20% of their revenues.
This is a Court that cares about the separate but coequal branches of government doing what they are supposed to do.

Congress, for its part, needs to do more of its job, articulating what the rules are itself instead of abdicating in favor of unelected bureaucrats who are not given that power under the Constitution.
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Jun 21, 2024
Today in Rahimi, the Court did just what we expected.

It applied its Second Amendment test looking to historical firearm regulation benchmarks in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen (2022) rather than the justices’ own policy preferences in deciding this case.

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The question is whether Congress exceeded its constitutional authority when it enacted a prohibition on the possession of firearms by people who are subject to domestic violence restraining orders barring them from harassing, stalking, or threatening an intimate partner or child.
The circumstances of this case are particularly odd, because Rahimi was a clearly reckless man who had on five occasions been involved in shootings.

He shot at individuals and/or cars, including a constable’s vehicle. Yet he was not a convicted felon.
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Jan 18, 2024
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Notre Dame Law School’s @DerektMuller conducted a comprehensive survey of the ideological leanings of the biggest law firms’ pro bono work at the Supreme Court as a way of gaining insight into the firms’ own ideological leanings.

The findings published expose just how deep the left-wing bias really is inside prestigious law firms.

journals.law.harvard.edu/jlpp/ideologic…Image
Muller looked at pro bono amicus briefs submitted in Supreme Court merits docket cases.

Over the four years between October 2018 and June 2022, Muller counted 851 amicus briefs (of the 3,280 filed in total) that were likely submitted pro bono by firms among the top 100 measured by gross revenue (the “Am Law 100”).Image
Overall, 64% of those briefs were aligned with the liberal position versus 31% with the conservative position, while the balance were in support of neither party.
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