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12 Oct, 5 tweets, 2 min read
Just finished Day 1 of the hearing on the nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to SCOTUS and realizing that the Republicans are not being straight - either about what is at stake or the reality of these hearings. THREAD
There is nothing typical about this hearing. A closed-door, multi-day event during a deadly pandemic is disturbing -made worse by the COVID outbreak in the Senate. npr.org/sections/live-…
There is no precedent for this illegitimate hearing and it's tearing down our democracy. It has NEVER happened in the history of this country that a SCOTUS judge was confirmed 22 days from Election Day. The Court will not recover. usatoday.com/story/opinion/…
Barrett will live up to Trump’s promises to end the Affordable Care Act and ban abortion. Her record tells us what we need to know. That’s before you get to the information she failed to disclose. They should be straight about this and #LetthePeopleDecide cnn.com/2020/10/09/pol…
The Republicans should be straight up with the people-they're ramming her through precisely because the vast majority of people do not want the future the Republicans are driving-they don’t want to lose health care or criminalize abortion. #LetThePeopleDecide #OurCourts

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Here’s what I didn’t get to say today at the House Education & Labor hearing on the new Title IX rule and gender bias in the Trump administration. The administration is arguing that this rule is justified by previous Supreme Court decisions.
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6 Dec 18
It’s important that we not create confusion about the reality of sexual violence that students experience and the rules that DeVos has proposed. Thread.
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2)All survivors face deep skepticism. That is our culture at its worse and unfortunately our laws and processes have often reflected that idea.
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