I'm getting tons of questions about what happens if Trump dies before the election? Or after? Is it Pence or can GOP just pick anyone they want? 25th Amendment? And every possible variation of these Qs and more. I'm a constitutional attorney and I'll answer them all now.
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These procedural questions are fascinating and the short answer is that there is not a lot of precedent for most of what people want to ask. There are so many variables, so many unknowns, and so much could change between now and the inauguration. So there's a lot we don't know.
But we know enough. We know that if Biden wins—and especially if he wins in a landslide—none of these questions matter.

So...that is the answer to everything. Stop fretting over hypotheticals and do something. Vote early. Donate. Volunteer.

First, go to IWillVote.com
But voting is not enough. Do more. I've been donating. I've also been phone-banking with @WisDems. You can't imagine how good it feels to convince an undecided voter to vote early for Biden and help them do it.

Volunteer for Biden here: joebiden.com/take-action/
Or adopt a state with the @PodSaveAmerica crew:
votesaveamerica.com

Voting isn't enough. Do more. Stop worrying about the "what ifs" and concentrate on getting Biden and Democratic senators into office. That is all that matters.

And no, I'm not sorry about this thread.
Stop looking. I already gave you the answer. Stop looking, close out this hellsite/app. DO SOMETHING.

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26 Sep
Let’s talk about Amy Coney Barrett, not her religion, but her pattern of saying that when personal religion and professional responsibilities collide, her religious beliefs take precedence.

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That pattern is extensive, beginning in at least 1998 with an article on Catholic judges in which she raises the very issue the GOP is complaining about. But first...
The most important thing you need to know about Barrett is that she is accepting this nomination. RBG is not even buried yet and Barrett is down for the partisan power grab. She’s confessing to partisanship and that she lacks the integrity for the job.
Read 40 tweets
17 Sep
I am listening to the White House Conference on American History and it is batshit crazy. This is absolutely nuts.
A taste from Peter Wood on the protests: “Riots appear to be planned, staffed, scheduled for nights on end. These are not spontaneous, … but well staged … they run according to a well-rehearsed script. Who rights that script? The answer is obvious.” Then he blamed professors.
Quotes are not exact, sorry. Double check them all.

The moderator is Larry Arn, who runs Hillsdale College.
Read about it here: rightwingwatch.org/post/hillsdale…
(by @petemont)

HC gave Pence an honorary degree, and his speech was . . . inaccurate.
patheos.com/blogs/freethou…
Read 11 tweets
10 Sep
Trump's latest SCOTUS shortlist additions have a dangerous lack of judicial experience. Some of them are well known in legal circles (Clement, Landau, Francisco), but there are only two on the list with any real judicial experience, Bade and Lagoa (mostly low level state judge).
Here's their years of experience ON THE BENCH

Bade: 8.5
Cameron: 0
Clement: 0
Cotton: 0
Cruz: 0
Duncan: 2.5
Engel: 0
Francisco: 0
Hawley: 0
Ho: <3
Katsas: <3
Lagoa: 14 (12as low level FL judge)
Landau: 0
Muñiz: 1.5
Pacold: 1
Phipps: 2
Pitlyk: <1
Rushing: <2
Todd: 0
VanDyke: 0.5
Half have no experience. The average is less than 2 years EACH. If you leave off the two experienced outliers, there's only 16.5 years of experience spread across 18 possible nominees: an average of 11 MONTHS of experience each. For a lifetime appointment on the highest court.
Read 5 tweets
21 Aug
As the #DemConvention reaches out to religious voters think on this:t in 2018 nonreligious voters were 17% of the electorate, up 55% since 2006. Voters who don't go church is surging, from 18 percent in 2014 to 27 percent in 2018, another big jump of 50%.
rewire.news/article/2018/1…
The electorate’s trend away from religion is going to continue and probably accelerate. This is a growing and untapped reservoir of political power.

Nonreligious Americans are among the most excited and generous volunteers and activists:
theatlantic.com/politics/archi…
But tonight, I've heard one mention of nonreligious Americans. In all the amazing diversity the #DemConvention is showing, one mention.

Only one, for the biggest or one of the biggest demographics supporting the Dem party.

friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2019/05/15/non…
Read 4 tweets
7 Jul
People are surprised about churches and preachers—and especially Trump's Christian Nationalist bootlickers—taking billions in taxpayer money.

It's unconstitutional. Has been since the American founding. This is what the framers originally meant by religious freedom.

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Some of us have been warning about this since late March. Raising the alarm. Calling legislators. Writing opeds.

Here's one I wrote back on April 2.
religiondispatches.org/taxpayers-cann…
The government’s taxing power should not be wielded to oblige Muslims to bankroll temples, or to coerce Jews to subsidize Christian and Catholic churches, or to force Christians to fund mosques, or to compel the nonreligious to support any of the above. ImageImage
Read 12 tweets
6 Jul
We're getting some data on churches that took taxpayer money, a violation of the Constitution, under the PPP program.

The numbers are staggering. @ryanburge put them up: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…
First Baptist Dallas, Robert Jefferess's church took between $2-5 MILLION. (📊Line 5769)

Jeffress is on Trump's Evangelical Advisory Board. He took the money on April 15--six months and 19 days before the #2020election.

@VP, @JohnCornyn, @GovAbbott, were there last weekend.
(I would have tagged Jeffress here, but he blocked me for tweeting about his Fox News appearance.
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