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1 Dec, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Last night in an emergency request for a stay of certification of Pennsylvania election results the GOP cited this case Chase v. Miller (Pa 1862) ten times. The case talks about in person voting by "white freemen" who pay the tax. A bit dated eh?

content.next.westlaw.com/Link/Document/…
“In elections by the citizens, every white freeman of the age of twenty-one years, having resided in the state one year, and in the election district where he offers to vote ten days immediately preceding such election, and within two years paid a state or county tax." Huh?
Chase v, Miller (Pa 1862) held that Civil War soldiers could not vote absentee -- even if they were white. Still good case law? A good reason to throw out every mail in ballot in Pennsylvania in 2020? What's up with the Pennsylvania GOP?
The first Supreme Court Justice to take this bait from the Pennsylvania GOP should be removed for "intoxication on the bench" an impeachment charge for which there is ample historical precedent.

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Richard W. Painter Profile picture
28 Nov
Did GOP lawyers just cite this case Chase v. Miller (PA 1862) to overturn the 2020 election results in PA?
This is a real beauty ....

content.next.westlaw.com/Link/Document/…
Citing now defunct Art. 3 of the PA Constitution: “In elections by the citizens, every white freeman of the age of twenty-one years, having resided in the state one year, and in the election district where he offers to vote .... and within two years paid a state or county tax."
Legal briefing 101: An 1862 Pennsylvania case interpreting an election law provision of the Pennsylvania constitution that bestows the right to vote on "every white freeman" is probably too old to cite for purposes of overturning a Pennsylvania election result in 2020.
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Perhaps it's in the King Donald Version....
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18 U.S. Code § 521, Criminal Street Gangs, provides for up to ten years more prison time if the defendant was a member of a "criminal street gang" at the time of the offense.
So let's see if the Minneapolis police union fits the definition ....

law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18…
“criminal street gang” means an ongoing group, club, organization, or association of 5 or more persons—
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The term "Minnesota nice" isn't a complete fabrication.
It's just a white lie.

The Minnesota paradox: how race divides prosperous Minneapolis theguardian.com/us-news/2020/m…
People love to talk about how progressive and politically correct they are in Minnesota.
But the minute you challenge what people do rather than just say about what they believe, many become very defensive.
On no issue is this more obvious than race.
A University Honors Program with less than 1% black enrollment (and its own segregated student housing) defended by "progressive"administrators and a website that shills about diversity.
Give me a break.
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"Living a black life in Minneapolis means sitting in disparity between your good-natured neighbors and a system of structural racism and disenfranchisement enforced through policy, white silence, and police violence,"
@JustinNXT writes: theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
Minnesota is full of people who talk about racial justice but do nothing.
Falcon Heights City Council members openly admitted on the record that they knew about police racial profiling but said or did nothing before Philando Castile was murdered in 2016.
falconheights.org/home/showdocum…
"She had known when she was on the council that there was a problem with racial profiling. She has the responsibility to ask questions and to get these answers, but she didn’t do it when she was on the council."
Pathetic.
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