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23 Dec, 4 tweets, 2 min read
A truly weird document
Nothing weirder than this part. Full pardons for mercenaries who murdered a bunch of Iraqi civilians—an act that even the document describing their clemency cannot look in the face.
Trump DOJ in 2019 on the mercs Trump pardoned today:

“When they stopped shooting, 14 Iraqi civilians were dead. Those killed included 10 men, two women, and two boys, ages 9 and 11.“

justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/for…
“Slatten was the first to fire, without provocation...”

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24 Dec
I’ve read half a dozen articles on this topic now—and I don’t want to totally underrate the phenomenon—but it’s striking that not one has even discussed the general effects of incumbency on the margins of a president running for re-election. nytimes.com/interactive/20…
These pieces are generally looking at areas with significant minority populations where Trump got ground into the pavement by Hillary Clinton and utterly flattened by Joe Biden, but when you compare the two, you can see Clinton delivered a noticeably more comprehensive beating.
There are a ofc constellation of views about why this is. Is it worth disussing whether, where Trump did really badly in 2016, voters didnt consider him a plausible president, and his 4y in the WH overturned that view in a way that wasn’t as salient in closely contested areas?
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15 Dec
News: Peter Nygard indicted. justice.gov/usao-sdny/pres…
SDNY press release here: justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/c…

Revelatory NYT story from earlier this year here: nytimes.com/2020/02/22/wor…
It’s the RICO. Image
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southpaw Profile picture
9 Dec
Have they.... have they read Texas’s request?
The states that are supporting this effort to throw out millions of Americans’ votes in other states.
There was some q about how much the 17 states were supporting. Was it only TX's initial request to be heard or was it also the full remedy--throwing out the votes of Americans residing in four other states? Today 6 of the 17 make it clear they're all in. supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/22/2…
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9 Dec
Finally getting around to TX’s lawsuit. It’s just abysmally bad. Clear misstatements of fact; indisputable misstatements of law—e.g, 3 USC 7 has nothing to do with the *appointment* of electors, google it and look; arguments written like this... texasattorneygeneral.gov/sites/default/…
Texas’s arguments for its standing to sue other states over their adherence to their own voting procedures, even when you get past the atrocious writing, are incredibly weak. The state cites only easily distinguishable cases far afield from the topic at hand.
Texas’s arguments for the justiciability of its case are somehow even weaker. The brief ignores that the constitution commits the subject matter to a political branch, Congress, which receives, evaluates, and counts the electoral votes.
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southpaw Profile picture
4 Dec
*pushing up glasses*

Strictly speaking, the rule requires only that gift that *can* be eaten at one “seating;” it does not require you to eat it that way, or at all. The rule permits you to take a qualifying gift to a second location.
Also, the test of whether it can be eaten is not specific to your personal eating capacity. If any one person on this earth can down it, you can keep it.
Pls forgive the garble. Should be: ...the rule requires only that the gift *can* be eaten at one “seating;”...
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4 Dec
A mini-thread on what happens in Congress.

I got a press release today from Sen. Schumer’s office heralding the inclusion of @ChrisMurphyCT’s “Law Enforcement Identification Act” in the NDAA. A good thing! Generously, the email included links to the relevant language...
On the left is the operative language of Sen. Murphy’s proposal (murphy.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/…), and on the right is an excerpt from the 4,517 page NDAA conference report. There are material differences.
Murphy’s proposal would have applied to federal personnel conducting any anti-riot activity; it’s been narrowed to federal personnel acting “in support of Federal authorities.” Does that limit the type of deployments covered? What if they’re supporting state authorities?
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