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@Taniel
Apr 15, 2021 • 7 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
Police *& prosecutors* openly lied about this shooting.

It's being exposed in this case. But how many thousands of people have convictions or are in prison because of tainted testimony & lies, and of prosecutors who are complicit or who look away?
Just last week, the Queens district attorney responded to the revelations of misconduct by her staff that led to a wrongful conviction for 24 years by... shrugging this away as isolated, and not ordering a review of other cases by the same people.
When the Westchester County DA received *recorded tapes* of police officers admitting they were framing people, he reacted by... continuing to rely on these same offiers' testimonies to send people to prison!

gothamist.com/news/mount-ver…
In 2016, an NYPD officer had just lied in a gun case, a video obtained by the defense team confirmed. But the Bronx DA's office just continuned to use that officer's testimony in similar cases going forward.

A pattern that held true elsewhere: theappeal.org/prosecutors-po…
All three stories I have thought of putting into this thread were written or co-written by @georgejoseph94, which says a lot & you should obviously be following him.
Adding to list: Fairfax County, VA, now may vacate 400 convictions obtained via an officer who was falsifying reports. 400!

If this feels like a rare case with consequence — think of how easily lies got thru, & so much harm that can’t be walked back. washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2021/…
This thread could just gone forever: the frightening thing is, when we *do* hear about a scandal, it’s because of a rare instance of review or exposure (as though the system works), but these moments (these reviews, let alone consequences) are so rare and case-by-case.

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Apr 9
Don't sleep on this: *2* state justices who just voted to make all abortion illegal in Arizona are on the ballot this year.

They're each up for retention, as I had detailed here last week: boltsmag.org/your-state-by-…
I skipped the headline story here assuming you've seen it elsewhere, but if not: the Arizona supreme court just declared abortion illegal. 12news.com/article/news/p…
Katie Hobbs, a Democratic governor, would have the power to appoint replacement if the justices are not retained. (Still, note that in Arizona governors choose within a list proposed by a commission.)
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Apr 4
A thread about a messed up situation in Mississippi.

It's on how state officials have voided direct democracy thru an absurd excuse, and how they keep refusing to yield that power back to people.
The state constitution gives people the right to ballot initiatives.

It outlines how they should do so, & how they should collect signatures in each of MS's five congressional districts.

The language was written into the constitution in 1992.
In 2000, Mississippi lost a congressional district, down to four.

No one saw a problem with that until 2021: the state supreme court effectively said that, since there were no longer 5 districts in which to collect signatures, no ballot initiative could be valid.
Read 9 tweets
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Mar 5
Tomorrow is extraordinary busy election day... and you may have missed critical battles.

So here's a thread with the 15 races I'll watch most closely, across 4 states. It has some of everything: school boards, local politics, DAs, voting rights...

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1️⃣ Let's start with the Arkansas supreme court races.

Because they're so odd. 2 seats, 4 sitting justices running for them, none of which are their current occupants, plus two outsiders. Depending on the results, the big winner may be Huckabee Sanders.

boltsmag.org/arkansas-supre…
2️⃣ Moving over to the Texas court of criminal appeals:

Ken Paxton & his far-right allies are targeting 3 GOP judges (Sharon Keller, Barbara Hervey, and Michelle Slaughter) who were part of a ruling that restricted Paxton’s ability to prosecute elections. texastribune.org/2023/12/13/ken…
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Feb 10
not all about the Santos seat and Trump/Biden: there are a ton of critical elections coming up literally in coming weeks.

here are just four you should know about.
1. the former sheriff of Los Angeles, ousted after protecting police abuse, is trying a comeback in 3 weeks: boltsmag.org/los-angeles-co…
2. Cleveland's March primary for prosecutor is one of the most interesting of the spring, with two very distinct visions of criminal justice between the incumbent & his challenger. wrote a bit about it here. boltsmag.org/ohio-prosecuto…
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Dec 7, 2023
Dems won full control of Michigan in the midterms, for the first time in 38 years.

Then? In the last few weeks, Michigan adopted into law a big range of voting rights reforms.

Let me count 7 different ways. ⬇️
1️⃣ Michigan will be automatically registering people to vote when they leave prison.

It'll add them to voter rolls, then send them a mailer notifying them, & ppl can opt out.

It's 1st such law in the nation, a big milestone to reduce marginalization. boltsmag.org/michigan-autom…
There's more in that automatic voter registration law!

2️⃣ Michigan will be switching to a system referred to as *back-end* voter registration.

It's a little complicated to explain, but @alex_burness lays it out here: boltsmag.org/michigan-autom…
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Nov 13, 2023
NEW: It was just confirmed that Dauphin County, PA, home to Harrisburg , flipped to Democratic control in last week's elections. For the first time in 100+ years.

GOP incumbent conceded this am, h/t @pennslinger.

One reason this matters? Ballot access. See next tweet.
County officials in PA have a lot of discretion to design voting procedures. For instance, many GOP-run counties (like Dauphin) haven't allowed ballot curing.

I talked to the Dem who won last week about how he plans to expand ballot access: boltsmag.org/democrats-penn…
Two things he mentioned: (1) wanting to expand the number of ballot drop boxes, & (2) wanting to make sure ballot curing is allowed & that the county proactively reaches out to people to inform them of a mistake.
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