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19 Nov, 5 tweets, 2 min read
🚨This is shocking: Trump apparently "reached out" to the two Republican Wayne County Commissioners. The next day, they signed an affidavit saying they want to rescind their votes to certify the results.

Channeling @BrendanNyhan, what you say if you saw this in another country.
This tidbit is in the middle of the AP story. Not sure why it's not the lede.

Of course, it's not clear how Trump "reached out" and it's from an anonymous source.

Still...shouldn't *this* be the story?
McConnell and others should have spoken up to declare Biden the President-Elect weeks ago.

Their failure to act is deafening and leads to these kinds of actions.

cnn.com/2020/11/06/opi…
The underlying tweet from my first tweet in this thread was deleted. The screenshot is from this @AP story: apnews.com/article/joe-bi…
NEW: Reports are not just that Trump "reached out." He personally called the Wayne County Commissioner. And THEN she sought to rescind her vote to certify the results.

This is an utterly brazen attack on our democracy.

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BIG: #SCOTUS rejects PA Republicans' attempt to put on hold PA Supreme Court decision extending absentee ballot deadline by 3 days.

SCARY: Three justices think the Court should reverse

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This is an interesting opinion written by a Trump-appointed district judge on mask mandates and the Voting Rights Act.

Is this a change in the voting rules that the 5th Circuit will reverse? We shall see.
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THREAD: Have Trump-appointed judges impacted 2020 election litigation and therefore how we run the election? Let us count the ways.

(Spoiler: they have. A lot). 1/
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Voting rights plaintiffs are 4 for 25 overall. For you baseball fans, that means they are batting .160. 2/
In 2 of those 4 cases, state had agreed to the voting change (RI and NC). NC case is still on appeal. A 3rd was about whether to run the election at all after a candidate died (MN).

BUT in the 21 cases, district courts granted relief in 18 of them, only to see reversal. 3/
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THREAD on #SCOTUS 4-4 decision refusing to intervene in Pennsylvania Supreme Court decision. It's a BIG deal.

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19 Oct
THREAD: How many times have federal appellate courts unduly deferred to state legislatures or election officials in recent days, rejecting challenges and failing to uphold the constitutional right to vote? Let us count. 1/
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Today's 5th Circuit decision on Texas absentee voting calls right to vote by mail a "privilege" several times.

What happened to the constitutional right to vote?

(Hint: it's supremely devalued by narrow fed court rulings that unduly defer to states.) assets.documentcloud.org/documents/7245…
Reading this opinion makes is abundantly clear that this court does not believe there is a fundamental, individual right to vote enshrined within the U.S. Constitution. The court rejects all claims of a burden on individual voters.
Shorter 5th Circuit: your ballot may be thrown out for a signature mismatch, but too bad so sad, it doesn't matter that you've lost your right to vote!
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