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23 Jan, 4 tweets, 2 min read
A bunch of National Guard troops (small fraction pictured here) got the day off to go sightseeing in DC! We love to see it.
Everybody is thanking the sightseeing National Guard troops for their service 🙂
Group photo at the Lincoln!

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24 Jan
Incarcerated people have a substantially higher chance of surviving COVID-19 if their requests for compassionate release come before judges appointed by Obama or Clinton. Those unfortunately enough to face Trump judges are much more likely to die of COVID behind bars.
In other words, the number of deaths attributable to Trump judges is already high. (It’s going to rise exponentially over the next half-century.)
It’s great that Trump signed a criminal justice reform bill, but the tragic reality is that his judicial nominees are going to spend the rest of our lifetimes condemning incarcerated people to needless deaths.
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23 Jan
In 2012, Jeffrey Clark—the Justice Department official who hatched a plan to facilitate Trump’s coup—was CHAIR of the Federalist Society’s Environmental Law and Property Rights Practice Group. He was also involved in at least two other Federalist Society working groups.
Two current or former chairs of Federalist Society practice groups were intimately involved in Trump’s failed coup: John Eastman and, we now know, Jeffrey Clark. slate.com/news-and-polit…
Don’t worry, I’m sure the Federalist Society will take appropriate action to distance itself from coup-abettors in its ranks by (squints) continuing to invite them to speak at events
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23 Jan
Second image from: nytimes.com/2021/01/22/us/…
Genuinely curious to hear what folks think of this take
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21 Jan
This piece by @BrandonMagner does a terrific job explaining why Biden fired Peter Robb, the NLRB GC. Robb took unprecedented steps to sabotage the agency, slash its staff, obliterate pro-union precedent, bust its own union, and grind its gears to a halt. brandonmagner.substack.com/p/should-biden…
I’m not sure it’s really registering how big a deal it is that Biden fired Robb. Progressives were worried Biden would let Robb finish out his term. And Robb refused to resign at Biden’s request! But Biden sacked him anyway. Labor leaders are hailing it as a massive victory.
If progressives were looking for a big, unmistakable sign that Biden would pursue an aggressively pro-labor agenda, they got it on Day One with the firing of Peter Robb. slate.com/news-and-polit…
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19 Jan
Anybody want to defend Trump Judge Justin Walker beginning this opinion with a lecture on political "factions" that includes almost an entire page of footnotes? bloomberglaw.com/public/desktop…
Background on Walker, arguably the worst (and most obnoxious) writer of Trump's judicial nominees: slate.com/news-and-polit…
There's a lot of other crazy shit in here too but for the sake of my own mental health I will simply refer you to @MaxKennerly.
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19 Jan
Stellar reporting from @DavidLat on three members of the Federalist Society who urged leadership to condemn the insurrectionists in its ranks (namely Eastman, Hawley, and Cruz).

FedSoc has not condemned this insurrectionists, and I don't think it will. davidlat.substack.com/p/the-federali…
Lat's piece has a lot of interesting analysis, and you should read it.

I'll add one thing: I suspect Federalist Society leadership is worried about where to draw the line. Eastman, Hawley, and Cruz are a symptom of a disease that has infected the conservative legal movement.
Eastman, Hawley, and Cruz weren't the only FedSoc members who sought to overturn the election. 18 state attorneys general joined them; most are affiliated with FedSoc. They are the next generation of FedSoc leadership. And they abetted a failed coup. slate.com/news-and-polit…
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