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15 Dec, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah

*pauses for breath*

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha *ad infinitum*.

Y'all.

Y'all ...

I cannot. I just cannot
"Debate me" hero of free speech, Dan Ravicher, has blocked me.
For *checks notes* saying his election tweet aged like milk and *offering to take him up on his challenge to debate him for 20K to charity*
Note: These were *literally* my only two interactions with this proud defender of the importance of a vigorous exchange of ideas*

*only ideas not critical of him count, though

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15 Dec
OK. I promised you a thread on the Wisconsin dissents, so here it is. Tl;dr: They are bad and their authors should feel bad

First, a quick spin through the majority/concurrences
The majority opinion was written by Brian Hagedorn, who joined the Wisconsin Supreme Court after serving as Chief Legal Counsel to Republican Governor Scott Walker. He also wrote a concurrence to his own majority opinion which ... um ... I've never seen before
In fact, let's ask some of the appellate specialists if this is just me not knowing enough. Hey, @RMFifthCircuit, @MatthewStiegler, @CecereCarl - you ever see a judge write a concurrence to his own majority opinion before yesterday?
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15 Dec
This paragraph is amazing. Apparently, Jordanian control of Sheikh Jarrah in 1956 was natural and legitimate, and not at all the result of Jordan's illegal conquest of Jerusalem in 1948. So Jordan simply building a new neighborhood on captured territory wasn't "colonialism" or
"settlement" just, you know, completely fine. Unlike when Israel does the same exact thing, because... well, apparently, because "jews"
This paragraph, too, is absolute art. "people accuse me of antisemitism just because I say antisemitic things. This is unfair"

Note - "divine right" has NOTHING to do with these cases. The second screenshot is Peace Now's summary
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14 Dec
The Wisconsin Supreme Court issued a ruling today on its voting rules.

No, not the Trump case. The pre-existing case about absentee voting. Lets do a live-read. wicourts.gov/sc/opinion/Dis…
First of all, it's going to be complicated. 4 judges in the majority - the Republicans, including Hagedorn. 2 of the Dem judges joined as to two parts of the opinion - meaning they agree with some but not all of the reasoning. 2 Dem judges wrote separate opinions ...
Concurring in part and dissenting in part - which basically means they agree with some but not all of the result reached by the majority, if not necessarily the reasoning. Of the Dems, Justice Walsh Bradley appears to be on her own on something. It will be interesting to see what
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11 Dec
Dear Texas: When your argument is that election procedures were adopted in violation of the Electors clause, the only evidence you need to "marshal" is "what election procedures were adopted and how"

You don't need weeks, a magnifying glass, and Melissa Carone
Also, why is there no other forum? You couldn't have sued in Federal court in Georgia or PA in advance of the election because ...?

Oh, right. No standing. That's still a problem
Also, Texas? I feel like you should take that up with ... Texas
Read 14 tweets
Akiva Cohen Profile picture
10 Dec
Ding dong the Squid is dead

The final #Squidigation has been fully yeeted out of court in a drily funny opinion from judge pepper, for all the usual reasons.

A piece that made me chuckle
I'm crying
Hey @j_remy_green relevant to our earlier discussion and omg she had to love writing this: "listen, Sidney, it's not my job to tell you you're being a fucking moron and worrying about the wrong event, even when I tell you you're being a fucking moron and got the date wrong"
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10 Dec
One comment on this Texas SCOTUS nonsense that nobody else seems to have made.

Unless I'm missing something, this lawsuit is actually barred by Federal law. As are any appeals of challenges to the appointment of electors; SCOTUS has no jurisdiction to consider them.
3 USC § 5 is the Federal statute that provides for the "Safe Harbor" everyone's been talking about for days. Here's what it says
We've all been focused on what the Safe Harbor means for how Congress has to count electoral votes when it meets on January 6. But 3 USC § 5 didn't only address the electoral count
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