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11 Nov, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Gavin McInnes is currently suing the Southern Poverty Law Center for describing the Proud Boys as a "hate group," claiming that they're mostly known for handing out Christmas presents.

rawstory.com/2020/11/civil-…
The Proud Boys don't "allow" white supremacists into the organization, the law suit claims.

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There have been no filings in this case for almost a full year, despite some excellent lawyering from the SPLC. The case was reassigned to a new judge on that date, pictured below: Image
I know I keep bringing up this lawsuit, but this really is like if the Nazis sued Skokie for not welcoming them. Image

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13 Nov
Justice Alito once dissented from an opinion holding that officers were not authorized to strip search a ten-year-old girl who was not named in the search warrant.

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The officers claimed that they were authorized to search the child because they had asked for permission to search "all occupants." But the judge only authorized them to search the male resident in the warrant he signed. ImageImage
Alito, then a judge on the Third Circuit, would have held that although the warrant did not name either female occupant, it was intended to, and there was probable cause to strip search them. Image
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10 Nov
Voter fraud conspiracy enthusiasts are engaging in what you might call a Gish Gallop, throwing tons of arguments against the wall to see what sticks, to make it exhausting an distracting to debunk.

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Gish gallops are difficult to handle, because it is actually very easy to make something up, and very difficult to bear down, investigate, and show why the lie is not true.

For instance, I could say, right now, that Ivanka Trump voted illegally in Pennsylvania.
That took me no effort at all to say. Now, to prove me wrong, you go through voter registration and you say "AHA, she's not registered."

And then I say, "She didn't use her real name."

Now, even more work to debunk. You've got to track her travel, or show fraud impossible.
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10 Nov
Are they reassuring foreign adversaries that they won't be meaningfully punished for assisting them in the election and then lying to the public and the FBI about it?
Is Kamala Harris going to come out publicly and say Ben Rhodes lied to her about these conversations and urge his firing?
Is Joe Biden pressuring Chris Wray to go easy on Rhodes and to offer him his loyalty?
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9 Nov
Asking for evidence of things makes you like a Holocaust denier, says Lyndsey Fifield,. Image
And let me just say that your voter fraud theories should not be compared to the mass extermination of families.
Honestly, this comparison makes me angry.
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3 Nov
Pennsylvania GOP are alleging that officials checked to make sure that ballots were properly filled out and gave people an opportunity to fix those ballots. The cure?

Tossing those votes.

assets.documentcloud.org/documents/7281…
Some pretty last minute work to file this on November 3 when they apparently knew about this on October 31, assuming it happened.
The evidence that the ballots were improperly "pre-canvassed" (checked for defects) appears to be that ballots were on a table where anyone could get to them.
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30 Oct
@RottenInDenmark So normally when there's a legal story, I feel like my role is to be like "it's actually not that crazy and if you understood a bit better you'd understand there are two perspectives."

But this is literally adopting a new theory of the Constitution 5 days before election.
@RottenInDenmark There's this case called Purcell that's like "don't do last minute shit that's gonna fuck up the election." And what these judges decided is that state legislatures have the sole, nondelegable ability to set state policy, based on this in the Constitution.
@RottenInDenmark Conservative judges have, EXTREMELY RECENTLY, taken to arguing that under this, state courts are powerless to hold that state constitutions forbid legislatures from doing things. And also, here, that they can't delegate power to the secretary of state.
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