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Sep 26, 2020 10 tweets 3 min read Read on X
🚨: In a 2019 dissent, Amy Coney Barrett said the Constitution protects the right of non-violent felons to own guns, but does NOT protect their right to vote.

Gun ownership is an "individual right," but voting is a "civic right" belonging "only to virtuous citizens", she wrote.
Two Ronald Reagan appointees, Justices Ripple and Flaum, disagreed, ruling that guns rights are also reserved for "virtuous citizens."

Only Amy Coney Barrett claimed it should be more difficult to revoke gun rights than voting rights.
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You may wonder why Amy Coney Barrett focuses this opinion on what people thought in the 18th & 19th centuries; the answer is simple: She is an originalist. Instead of viewing the Constitution as a living document, she interprets it based on the world of the time it was written.
Her originalist approach is far different from RBG—and even GOP-appointees like former Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy.

That's why she could never arrive at the opinion Kennedy arrived at in a 2003 gay rights ruling (next tweet). vox.com/policy-and-pol…
Kennedy, ruling for gay rights in 2003: "Had those who drew and ratified the Due Process Clauses of the 5th or 14th Amendments known the components of liberty in its manifold possibilities, they might have been more specific. They did not presume to have this insight...." cont-->
Kennedy: "They knew times can blind us to certain truths & later generations can see laws once thought necessary & proper in fact serve only to oppress. As the Constitution endures, persons in every generation can invoke its principles in their own search for greater freedom."
Amy Coney Barrett's originalist ideology doesn't allow for "persons in every generation (to) invoke (the Constitution's) principles in their own search for greater freedom." Their only option in her view is to amend it—an extremely difficult process.
Judge Amy Coney Barrett's view of the law, if most SCOTUS justices had followed it in the past, would've meant the court would've never:
-struck down laws that treated people differently based on their sex
-struck down bans on gay sex and gay marriage

Hundreds of examples exist.
Keep in mind this March 30, 2016 Hillary Clinton speech on the Supreme Court that the national media largely ignored.

HRC: "If you care about the fairness of elections...you should care about who wins the presidency & appoints the next Supreme Court justices."
Here's more on Amy Coney Barrett's 2019 dissent:

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Aug 21
Kamala Harris will accept the Democratic nomination 60 years to the day after Fannie Lou Hamer—a Black woman and sharecropper from rural Mississippi—rattled the DNC with her "Is This America?" speech about being brutalized for trying to register to vote.
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Fannie Lou Hamer, who helped organize Freedom Summer to register and educate Black voters, was one of the leaders of the Mississippi Democratic Freedom Party who traveled to the 1964 DNC in New Jersey to challenge the state's all-white delegation.
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Fannie Lou Hamer was also an advocate for bodily autonomy.

A white doctor had performed a hysterectomy on her while removing a tumor in 1961.

Such treatment of Black women was so common in the South that Hamer called it a “Mississippi appendectomy.”
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Apr 3
NEW: After discovering that some officials in Mississippi and nationwide were keeping unidentified bodies for "personal collections" and refusing to return them, Pascagoula Lt. Darren Versiga began pushing for a law to regulate how remains are handled.
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Lt. Versiga told @Shaunicy_ that he uncovered the problems when he began looking into decades worth of unsolved cold cases in Pascagoula.

He said a new bill in the Mississippi Senate could prevent the mishandling of bodies in the future.
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@Shaunicy_ Lt. Versiga also said the bill, introduced by Sen. Brice Wiggins, could also help prevent cases where counties bury bodies without ever informing families of a loved ones' death—as happened to at least seven families in Hinds County.
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Mar 29
NEW: The Mississippi Senate stripped out the House Medicaid expansion bill and replaced it with one that could cost the State millions more while covering less people.

"This is not Obamacare" but "a very responsible and conservative bill," a senator said.
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Sen. Kevin Blackwell estimates that 80,000 Mississippians would qualify for Medicaid coverage under the Senate plan, but said he expects as few as 40,000 may actually enroll—significantly lower than the House’s estimation of up to 200,000 for its version.
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The House plan includes full Medicaid expansion under the ACA, allowing residents who make up to 138% of the federal poverty level ($20,120 for an individual) to qualify. The Senate plan only allows people making up to 100% (~$15k) to qualify.
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You deplorable misogynist.

You're using photos of her from 10 years ago—when she had an eating disorder.

She was this thin because of hateful assholes like you making her feel bad about her body. Like she could never be thin enough.

You are NOT entitled to women's bodies.
To quote Taylor herself reflecting on her eating disorder:

“If you’re thin enough, then you don’t have that ass that everybody wants. But if you have enough weight on you to have an ass, your stomach isn’t flat enough. It’s all just f—ing impossible.”
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Here's how people reacted after she stopped starving herself (yes, she really did that).

People suck.


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Feb 11
Our top story at the Mississippi Free Press today: "Trump Encourages Russia to Attack American Allies: ‘Do Whatever the Hell They Want’"

We may be a local Mississippi outlet, but this is important. It should be leading every newspaper in the country.
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the Mississippi Free Press logo appears above a photo of trump speaking at a rally and the headline: "Trump encourages russia to attack american allies: 'do whatever the hell they want'" Ashton Pittman#February 11 2024
"'No, I would not protect you. In fact, I would encourage [Russia] to do whatever the hell they want,” Trump said, recalling a conversation with an American ally's president.
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As a nonprofit newsroom, our journalism is always free to anyone to read, but we do rely on support from our readers to grow and do this work.

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NEW: Brett Favre was interrogated by state attorneys for nine hours Monday during a secret deposition about the Mississippi welfare scandal and the millions in TANF funds that went to him, a volleyball stadium and a drug company he was heavily invested in.
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Favre's deposition was originally scheduled for October, but the State rescheduled it for after the statewide elections.

Hattiesburg Patriot's Tom Garmon found out about the deposition's secret location and staked it out. Clip courtesy @HPatriot
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It is unlikely that the transcript will become public anytime soon. In October, a judge agreed to a request from the State, Favre and other defendants to issue a protective order sealing certain discovery documents—like deposition transcript.

The order:
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screenshot shows the first page of the protective order: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF HINDS COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES VS. MISSISSIPPI COMMUNITY EDUCATION CENTER, INC., et al PLAINTIFF CASE NO. 25CI1:22cv286-EFP DEFENDANTS AGREED PROTECTIVE ORDER This day this cause came before the Court on the joint motion of Plaintiff Mississippi Department of Human Services ("MDHS") and Defendants Brett Lorenzo Favre, Lobaki, Inc., and Lobaki Foundation for entry of a protective order, pursuant to Mississippi Rule of Civil Procedure 26d), con...
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