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13 Oct, 16 tweets, 3 min read
He filed a brief telling the Court that if they didn't rule his way, they'd add more Justices. nationalreview.com/2020/08/sheldo…
Whitehouse is so awful. And everything is a conspiracy to him. Everything.
"What is the scheme here?" "In every case, money is involved"

Again, to Sheldon Whitehouse, everything is a conspiracy, and neither Democrats nor liberals/progressives raise or spend money on anything.
I hope to live long enough to see Sheldon Whitehouse get to a question in his "questioning"
Now, Sheldon Whitehouse is describing Leonard Leo as a "burned agent."
Reminder: while Democrats rant about conservative organizations, their vice presidential nominee - who sits on this committee - pushed to use the criminal law against investigation of liberal organizations.
Whitehouse is now blowing the lid off a secret conspiracy by which elected officials have political opinions.
"The Roberts Five" as if a Supreme Court majority is Abbie Hoffman.
Whitehouse is now complaining about reducing the power of the civil jury...well, except that he is totally OK with civil adjudication by administrative agencies.
Not letting a woman speak is OK when you're a Democrat, we all know that.
Whitehouse is now baldly misrepresenting the Shelby County case, in which Roberts' entire point was that Congress *didn't* engage in factfinding - the exact same eat-your-vegetables approach Roberts has repeatedly used against the Trump Administration.
Whitehouse just said that there are no 5-4 Supreme Court decisions that, say, upheld Obamacare.
Whitehouse concludes without ever asking a question.
Ted Cruz started off slow, and just started to raise his voice talking about the money & power on the Democratic side & what hogwash it is to claim that the big money is primarily a Republican thing.
Cruz now going on describing how the Obama Administration told the Court in Citizens United that it could ban books.
LOL, nobody is trying to outlaw the 1619 Project. Simply false.

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Kamala Harris, talking about the history of flatly discriminatory treatment of black voters, unintentionally makes the case for an originalist interpretation of the 14th & 15th Amendments, without fear or favor, which the Court failed to apply for many years.
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14 Oct
Hirono time.
Hirono's voice rises questioningly as she has to pronounce the unfamiliar word "connection"
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14 Oct
Whitehouse, who claimed yesterday to be against special-interest money in politics, now starting in against the Janus decision that restricted unions' special-interest right to extract money for politics from their members without their consent.
Whitehouse now against activist litigation groups & the class-action plaintiffs bar finding a plaintiff to challenge something - well, except that he's only against that if it is for a conservative cause, then he's for it.
Whitehouse now says that litigants should demand rulings in their favor by lower courts even when precedent precludes that. He should probably read about how Thurgood Marshall & Ruth Bader Ginsburg got cases to the appeals courts.
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14 Oct
Feinstein is playing the game with the Voting Rights Act where you either are for everything ever in the statute, or against everything ever passed under the name "Voting Rights Act."
Barrett now explaining the preclearance formula issue in Shelby County. Feinstein still ranting about a Scalia remark at oral argument.
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Barrett's face when Booker asks if she's against white supremacy. Image
Barrett refuses to get into what Trump has or hasn't said, but gives an eloquent defense of the vital importance of a peaceful transfer of power in the American system - pointedly including the acceptance of defeats.
Unsurprisingly, Barrett won't wade into the (long-disputed, never resolved) legal question of what would happen if a president tried to pardon himself.
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13 Oct
Hirono: Wait, are you telling me policy considerations are something *we* should address?

Barrett: Yes, you write the laws.
Hirono: are you saying that the stories of people are legal arguments? The real life stories? Those are part of the law? [Yes, she's really this unintelligible]
The really astounding thing was how Hirono seemed genuinely baffled by the concept that maybe the job of a judge is not the same as the job of a legislator. As if hearing it for the first time.
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