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23 Dec, 5 tweets, 2 min read
Trump's pardon statement for the Blackwater mass murderers: "the situation turned violent." lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2020/12/and-th…
Starting to randomly fire machine guns and grenade launchers at people just minding their own business does tend to turn situations violent, yes. There is no moral distinction between this and pardoning Dylann Roof.
By the way, just to show that Trump's instinct for giving a pass to white supremacist violence has deep roots in the contemporary GOP, can we talk about Bush I's replacement for Ken Starr and Janice Rogers Brown throwing out three of these sentences on 8th Amendment grounds?
Under the controlling doctrine it does not violate the 8th Amendment to mete out a sentence of life without parole for simple possession of cocaine or 25-to-life for stealing three golf clubs, but two Republican judges threw out 30-year sentences given to mass murderers.
To quote my colleague, "I suggest reading this thread and then disowning anyone in your life who voted for Donald Trump last month"

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I see the Roberts Court is continuing its twerpish trend of issuing party-line votes in highly controversial cases as per curia
The "Bush v. Gore" per curium, and you have to concede that your chambers wouldn't want your name on them either
Today it's Breyer that draws Unanswerable Dissent duty, responding to the Court's holding that the Court cannot rule about Trump's illegal plan to exclude undocumented aliens from the census because we can't be sure that it will work
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Weaponizing the free exercise clause lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2020/12/weapon…
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