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42 hours until we have a president (pictured at right) born in '42. Image
41 hours until we have a president who got into his opponent’s head 41 times more than his opponent got into his.
40 hours until the 11th consecutive inauguration of a president whose party lost the presidential election 40 years earlier.
39 hours until a Vice President who was elected San Francisco District Attorney at age 39. Image
38 hours until JOSEPH ROBINETTE BIDEN JR and KAMALA DEVI HARRIS whose names collectively have 38 LETTERS Image
37 hours until a Democrat who was VP becomes President —which hasn't happened since the 37th VP (Lyndon Baines Johnson). And it'll be the first time since 1837 (Martin Van Buren) that a Democrat who was VP becomes President via an election. ImageImage
36 hours until a President who served 36 years in the Senate — the longest congressional tenure of any President. Image
35 hours until the 35th President to receive a record number of popular votes.
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At 2am, it was 34 hours until a woman as Vice President who was previously a Senator, preceded by only 34 other female Senators.
At 3am, it was 33 hours until a President who helped elect Jon Ossoff, at age 33 the youngest Democratic Senator since . . . Joe Biden.
At 4am, it was 32 hours until a Vice President who served as the 32nd Attorney General of California.
At 5am, it was 31 hours until the first nationally elected Democrat from the 31st state. She will be the only person of color to serve as Vice President other than the 31st Vice President, Charles Curtis, a member of the Kaw Nation.
At 6am, it was 30 hours until a President who became Senator at age 30.
At 7am, it was 29 hours until a President who was *elected* Senator at age 29.
At 8am, it was 28 hours until the first Democratic President to win Georgia in 28 years.
27 hours until a Vice President who served as the 27th District Attorney of San Francisco. Image
26 hours until a President who authored the Violence Against Women Act, signed into law 26 years ago.
25 hours until a President who won 25 states plus D.C., 306 electoral votes, and about 81,281,502 real-life people votes.
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24 hours until the first Democratic President to win Arizona in 24 years. Image
23 hours until a Vice President who remembers the words of a 23-year-old.
22 hours until the presidency of Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. (22 letters), who has released 22 years of his tax returns.
21 hours until President who honors the all-time greatest 21.
20 hours until a President born on November 20 and a Vice President born on October 20. Image
19 hours until the first woman in national elected office, elected 100 years after the 19th amendment gave women the right to vote, whose mother came to the U.S. at age 19 to, in her daughter's words, "pursue her dream of curing cancer."
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18 hours until we inaugurate the author of this letter, sent 18 years and 11 months ago.
17 hours until a Vice President who has served in elected office for the past 17 years. Image
16 hours until Vice President Kamala Devi Harris, whose name has 16 letters. Image
15 hours until a President with the foresight to have tweeted this 15 months ago.
14 hours until a President who knows that our past isn't long past and who commemorates the momentous death of a 14-year-old boy just 16 months his senior.
13 hours until a President whose words of encouragement to a 13-year-old fellow stutterer led to a remarkable Democratic National Convention speech.
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12 hours until a President who, 12 years ago today, became the first Catholic Vice President alongside the first Black President. Image
11 hours until we inaugurate the subject of these 11 (mostly) Irish facts.
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At 2am it was 10 hours until the 10th black Senator ever becomes Vice President.
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At 3am it was nine hours until a President endorsed by Nine Inch Nails.
At 4am it was 8 hours until the first Democrat to become President after serving as Vice President for 8 years.
At 5am it was 7 hours until a Vice President who will celebrate her 7th wedding anniversary while in office, married to a Second Gentleman whose kids call him Doug.
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At 6am it was 6 hours until a President whose favorite poet has 6 letters in his first name and 6 in his last, and whose most famous poem has 6 famous lines that he loves to quote.
At 7am it was 5 hours until a President who asked his wife to marry him 5 times before she said yes.
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At 8am it was four hours until these four:
Three hours until a nation in a season of grief gets a President who, due to three losses, knows it all too well.
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One hour until one man takes one step to make our country a better place. The rest is up to all of us. Image

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11 Feb 20
While Barr hides, JESSIE LIU -- who was US Attorney for DC until 1/31-- will testify on Thursday before @SenateBanking on her nomination for a Treasury post. She should be asked lots of Qs about her last gig -- e.g. why did she quit before confirmation to her new job? 🤔 1/
@SenateBanking To what extent was Liu aware of White House pressure to take specific positions in specific cases? 2/
@SenateBanking Why did her office suddenly get softer on MICHAEL FLYNN right before she left her job? 3/
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10 Jan 20
And there it is. wsj.com/articles/trump…
Why would Trump worry about GOP senators and impeachment?
—he wants more than “No” votes: his goal is complete vindication and praise without any “inappropriate but not impeachable” caveats.
—he may fear other shoes dropping
—he’s famously paranoid
Anyone who doubts Trump’s concern over the Senate impeachment trial should check his feed this morning — he re- or quote-tweeted 15 GOP senators (plus Manchin) on random stuff, just to butter them up. Not normal for him.
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16 Oct 19
There's been a lot of recent talk about 1970s pregnancy discrimination in light of it costing @ewarren a teaching job. Sadly pregnancy and caregiver discrimination remain widespread. It happened to my sister, @NikkiColumbus. I'd like to share her story. 1/
@ewarren @NikkiColumbus Nikki is in the art world. Over a period of several months in 2017, she was recruited to join MoMA PS1 as associate curator of performance.  2/
@ewarren @NikkiColumbus After @MoMAPS1 made her an offer, she mentioned that she had recently had a baby. They immediately demanded to know why she hadn’t said earlier that she was pregnant. Shortly thereafter, @MoMAPS1 rescinded the job offer.  3/
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4 Oct 19
Wow — staunch Trump defender Sen. Johnson now says SONDLAND told him there was a Ukraine quid pro quo, right before Sondland denied it unconvincingly in his texts with Taylor. wsj.com/articles/trump…
Does he — does he realize what he’s saying?
Ron Johnson keeps going — he admits he wrote his 2016 letter seeking “urgent reforms to the [Ukrainian] Prosecutor General’s office” because “the whole world” felt Shokin — the guy Biden helped push out — wasn’t tough enough on corruption.
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Per this thread the team exiting the case includes a top POLITICAL APPOINTEE, Deputy Assistant Attorney General James Burnham. It's one thing -- terrible and rare! -- for a career lawyer to refuse to participate; it's far worse when even someone on POTUS's team won't play along.
James Burnham was in the White House Counsel’s Office from January 2017 to April 2019. If *he* won’t advance Trump’s new arguments, something is rotten. law.com/nationallawjou…
Why are Burnham and others refusing to contnue on the case? Probably two reasons. First, they're being asked to make wholly implausible arguments. This is extraordinary rare but it's happened before in this administration, in the Obamacare case currently before the Fifth Circuit.
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20 May 19
McGahn does NOT have to comply with Trump's instruction. Executive privilege has no force against a former employee who *wants* to testify. 1/
Nor can McGahn reasonably cite attorney-client privilege -- the D.C. Circuit has held that there's no attorney-client privilege between WH counsel and POTUS. 2/
Would McGahn get in trouble with the D.C. Bar? Turns out there's an D.C. Bar ethics opinion (h/t @rroiphe) that says if Congress subpoenas a lawyer's documents and threatens contempt, the lawyer may (but not must) comply. 3/ dcbar.org/bar-resources/…
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