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7 Jan, 5 tweets, 1 min read
Cruz votes aye. Have only heard no’s otherwise.
Add Hawley, Hyde-Smith, and Kennedy, and the new obstetrician in town Marshall as ayes.
+ Tuberville
So I think it’ll be 6 ayes total on the AZ objection
That’s [furiously working an abacus] not enough votes to sustain the objection.

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4 Jan
What petition is Cleta Mitchell talking about here — the case filed in Fulton County that got dismissed or something else? nytimes.com/2021/01/03/us/…
This looks like it.
The complain is verified, after a fashion, by Trump himself. It was signed on New Years Eve. cc @alanfeuer
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24 Dec 20
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.
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23 Dec 20
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…
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15 Dec 20
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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9 Dec 20
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 20
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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