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1 Feb, 4 tweets, 2 min read
I am glad Ryan Anderson, the new president of @EPPCdc, is open about his goal of preventing gay people like me from getting married and having children. Frankly, his candor is refreshing. Anti-gay organizations often cower behind euphemisms to conceal their true goals these days.
Everyone deserves to know that when you support @EPPCdc, you are supporting their drive to dissolve my marriage and strip me of the right to have children. This is EPPC's mission: nullifying same-sex couples' marriages and revoking their legal parentage over their children.
Notably, Anderson's debut op-ed as EPPC president—which prompted the exchange I highlighted above—did not mention his goal of nullifying same-sex marriage and parental rights. Presumably, that's because he understands destroying families is unpopular.
wsj.com/articles/relig…
Because Anderson was conspicuously silent on the question of same-sex marriage in that op-ed, I was glad to see him affirm his desire to nullify same-sex marriages and strip parental rights from same-sex parents. We deserve to know the full scope of @EPPCdc's anti-family agenda.

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2 Feb
This is disappointing. Anderson’s predecessor at @EPPCdc, Ed Whelan, shot down conspiracy theorists who spread the big lie that Biden stole the election through mass fraud.

Anderson now elevates one of the loudest promoters of the big lie, Joy Pullmann. Deeply irresponsible. ImageImageImageImage
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Yes, this is where we are. Ed Whelan, who defamed an innocent man by falsely accusing him of sexually assaulting Christine Blasey Ford—on the basis of Zillow floor plans—is a voice of reason in comparison to his successor at @EPPCdc, Ryan Anderson.
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I'd be happy to explain. Trump's trans ban took the form of a memo that directed the military to promulgate regulations prohibiting trans service AND enlistment.

Biden's order repealed the memo, and *explicitly* repealed regulations prohibiting trans service—but not enlistment.
Biden's order, as well as the WH's advance summary, explains at length exactly how the military must repeal various regulations restricting transgender *service.* It does not, however, explain how the military must repeal regulations restricting transgender enlistment.
Simply repealing Trump's memo does not automatically repeal the regulations that were implemented in accordance with the memo. That is presumably why Biden also explicitly repealed regulations regarding transgender service. I do not know why he didn't do the same for enlistment.
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The Supreme Court wiped away four lower court decisions this morning because they have become moot:

•Two decisions regarding Trump's alleged violations of the foreign emoluments clause
•Two decisions regarding COVID-related restrictions on abortion

supremecourt.gov/orders/courtor…
•Trump is out of office, so he can no longer be violating the emoluments clause.
•The COVID-related restrictions on abortion have been lifted, so those cases no longer present live controversies.

SCOTUS deftly avoided controversy by ducking these cases until they became moot.
The Supreme Court also issued a rare decision in favor of a death row inmate, although the disposition is very complicated. Basically, SCOTUS nudged the lower courts to reconsider letting this man bring his spiritual advisor into the execution chamber. supremecourt.gov/orders/courtor…
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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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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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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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