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30 Oct, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Choose your fighter.
Shakira:
Miller:
If you can: Vote.

In person, early or on Election Day, or by drop box or at your local board of elections if you haven’t voted already. Don’t mail your ballot now if you’ve not already done so.

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31 Oct
Republicans are afraid of votes. Some judges are, increasingly, going along with it — in dramatic and unjustified ways that ignore the Purcell principle and the reliance interests of voters. It’s undemocratic, an embarrassment to our nation, and needs to stop.
In short, this is a completely illegitimate lawsuit whose only purpose is to try to disenfranchise voters. Courts must shut this down.
As usual, @marceelias is there, fighting to protect voters:
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29 Oct
My kingdom for the end of judges hiding behind “per curiam” opinions.
Here’s Rick on why the 8th Circuit’s ruling tonight is unacceptable:
Here's the visual reason why the 8th Circuit ruling is unacceptable:
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29 Oct
If your party’s only clear animating principle for the closing days of an election is to reduce the number of people who can have their votes counted, it’s not a party at all.
And this:
These people are so desperate and sad. Their “arguments,” such as they are, require both ignoring the pandemic (which, true, is basically GOP policy anyway) AND ignoring the fact that even pre-pandemic many states allowed post-election day receipt of ballots postmarked by E-Day. Image
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29 Oct
Do we watch Queen’s Gambit?
The first episode was good. I’m on the second now.
Me finding one of the gay books at the library when I was in middle school. Image
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29 Oct
About these SCOTUS rulings. The bottom line is: Get your ballot in by Election Day if at all possible. Whether you have already mailed it, drop it off in person or at a dropbox where available, vote early in person, or vote on Election Day, that's what is safest.
It is clear that a majority of the Court is opposed to federal court election changes. It is also clear that at least four justices are open to rulings that would allow the US Supreme Court to overrule state courts' rulings on state law when it relates to federal elections.
That "at least four" represents Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, and Kavanaugh. If Barrett were to join them, that's five — and even a Roberts vote with the more liberal justices wouldn't be enough to stop a ruling like Alito's opinion in the PA case sought out earlier today.
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29 Oct
Here’s the NC ruling, in which #SCOTUS turned down a GOP request to halt an extension of the time for receipt of NC absentee ballots. Although some are characterizing the vote as 5-3, I’m not sure we know more than that a majority didn’t vote for relief. supremecourt.gov/opinions/20pdf…
In other words, we know three justices — Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch — disagreed with denying relief, because they said so, but we don’t know the other votes because application votes aren’t public. So, it could have been 4-4 and that would still be a denial.
Steve makes an argument here for evidence that it was 5-3, but I’m not sure the tradition he describes applies to applications (as opposed to merits cases, where the Court notes there is “an equally divided Court”). That has specific consequences that don’t apply to applications.
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