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Judd Legum

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1 Jul

1. SCOTUS' new decision further undermines the Voting Rights Act & KAGAN is not mincing words: "What is tragic
here is that the Court has (yet again) rewritten—in order
to weaken—a statute that stands as a monument to America’s greatness, and protects against its basest impulses"

"Never has a statute done more to advance the Nation’s highest ideals. And few laws are more vital in the current moment. Yet in the last decade, this Court has treated no statute worse."

"Yet efforts to suppress the minority vote continue. No one would know this from reading the majority opinion. It hails the “good news” that legislative efforts had mostly shifted by the 1980s from vote denial to vote dilution."

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Judd Legum

@JuddLegum

1 Jul

1. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court says Cosby's constitutional rights were violated because he was prosecuted after a DA (Castor) promised that he would never be prosecuted for assaulting Constand.

That can only be true if such a promise EXISTED.

2. The only contemporaneous evidence that it existed is a 2005 press release that includes the following line: "District Attorney Castor cautions all parties to this matter that he will reconsider this decision should the need arise."

3. Apart from that there is not one scrap of paper -- not an email, not a memo, not some notes scribbled on the back of a napkin -- that proves such an agreement existed

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Judd Legum

@JuddLegum

30 Jun

1. A lot of misinformation is floating around about the nature of the PA Supreme Court's decision on Cosby.

So I want to clarify a few issues.

Let's talk about EXACTLY WHY the court decided it had to invalidate Cosby's trial.

And why their rationale is very weak

2. First there are a lot of lawyers on Twitter saying the court found there was a type of "contract" between the DA (Castor) and Cosby where the DA promised he would never be prosecuted

The PA Supreme Court court did not find that

The court expressly says there was no contract

3. The court found that there was an UNCONDITIONAL PROMISE from the DA not to prosecute Cosby and that Cosby relied on that promise.

And that, despite the absence of an actual agreement, "fairness" requires that the court to honor this "promise"

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Judd Legum

@JuddLegum

30 Jun

1. The PA's Supreme Court decision to release Cosby based on a former prosecutor's "agreement" not to prosecute Cosby and instead grant him immunity from prosecution is not legally sound.

Here's why.

2. PA has a very specific process for being granted immunity from prosecution.

AND IT CANNOT BE GRANTED BY A PROSECUTOR.

Rather, a prosecutor has to ask a court to grant immunity

IN COSBY'S CASE THE PROSECUTOR NEVER ASKED

3. So we are basically going off of the former prosecutor's (and Cosby's) word that such an agreement existed. The record is shaky, but IT DOESN'T MATTER. The prosecutor has no power to immunize Cosby unilaterally

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Judd Legum

@JuddLegum

29 Jun

Recent claims by Tucker Carlson:

1. The FBI was behind the January 6 insurrection

2. Critical Race Theory will soon result in genocide

3. The NSA is spying on him

It's theoretically possible that the NSA is spying on Tucker Carlson but it's also the kind of claim that you can make and will never be disproven because the NSA is not going to release a statement saying "We are not spying on Tucker Carlson."

Carlson claims that to get to the bottom of it he FILED A FOIA REQUEST WITH THE NSA.

This is brilliant.

In order to get my next big scoop, I'm going to FOIA the NSA and just ask for all info about anyone interesting they've been spying on in the last few years.

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Judd Legum

@JuddLegum

28 Jun

1. CRT has been distorted by the right as an all-purpose boogieman to rile up voters.

But it's actually a sophisticated and useful way to understand the cause of persistent racial inequality.

Let's explore how it works in practice.

popular.info/p/1-truth-and-…

2. Black people represent 12% of the total population and 33% of the prison population.

Why?

popular.info/p/1-truth-and-…

3. It can't be explained by saying that black people commit more crime.

And "[b]lack and white Americans sell and use drugs at similar rates."

But Black Americans are 6x more likely to be incarcerated for it

popular.info/p/1-truth-and-…

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