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27 Jul, 4 tweets, 1 min read
USCP Sgt. Aquilino Gonnell, who came to the US from the Dominican Republic in 1992, says he was the first in his family to graduate college, join the Army, and became a police officer: “I’ve always taken my oath seriously. On January 6, 2021, I fulfilled my oath once more.”
Gonnell says he was more afraid on Jan. 6th than he was during his entire deployment in Iraq in the army
Sgt. Gonnell says it was clear to him that many of the rioters had military/law enforcement training
Gonnell calls out people who criticize athletes who kneel during the national anthem while downplaying January 6, says that law rn form front got more support during the protests of summer 2020 than during the insurrection

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28 Jul
Good afternoon from the House administration committee, where, in non-infrastructure news, a hearing on election subversion is kicking off
Committee chairwoman @RepZoeLofgren kicking off her opening statement discussing increased threats against election officials, says they've been "failed" by political leaders
@RepZoeLofgren After a brief back-and-forth with Lofgren over the scheduling for this hearing, ranking member @RodneyDavis is speaking now, criticizing Dems: "there's a lot of election misinformation going on right now, and it's coming from the other side of the aisle'
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22 Jul
.@SpeakerPelosi addressing the failed Jan. 6 commission in her weekly presser, saying it failed "Even though it was bipartisan and yielded to the Republicans on many points to be bipartisan"
@SpeakerPelosi Pelosi on the select committee: "We will get to the truth on this and we will not let their antics stand in the way of this"
@SpeakerPelosi Pelosi just reiterated support for HR1/S1, this time focusing on the ethics reform aspect of it
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18 Jul
Just 40% of *healthcare workers* in Arkansas are vaccinated, per @SharonLNYT. The state legislature passed a law banning state/local workplaces from requiring COVID vaccination as a condition of employment until 2 years after vaccines get full FDA approval nytimes.com/2021/07/17/us/…
“Young, pregnant coronavirus patients were once rare at the hospital. But recently, four or five of them ended up in intensive care. Three were treated with a machine called ECMO…a step some consider a last resort after ventilators fail” nytimes.com/2021/07/17/us/…
Three unvaccinated women, 62, 68, and 74, all ended up in an Arkansas hospital with COVID. “Yet despite their ordeals, none of them changed their minds about getting vaccinated. ‘It’s just too new,’ Mrs. Billigmeier said. ‘It is like an experiment.’” nytimes.com/2021/07/17/us/…
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13 Jul
Texas Democrats are in the national spotlight for fleeing their state to block the passage of proposed election reform laws. Here's a quick breakdown of what's actually in the two bills, House Bill 3 and Senate Bill 1, that Democrats walked out over: businessinsider.com/why-did-texas-…
Key points from both bills:
• New, defined hours for early voting (which also ban 24 hr voting)
• Bans drive-thru voting
• Expanded pollwatcher access
• ID # required on absentee ballots
• Allows voters to fix signature issues on absentee ballots businessinsider.com/why-did-texas-…
Democrats won some key concessions from the previous walkout over election bill SB 7: provisions limiting Sunday voting hrs & making it easier to overturn some elections are gone, and HB 3 includes absentee ballot curing and a provision addressing the prosecution of Crystal Mason
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2 Jul
New from me: SCOTUS' decision in Brnovich comes at the worst possible time for the White House, which is ramping up its voting rights push, and for the Department of Justice, which is doing the same and just brought a Section 2 case against Georgia businessinsider.com/scotus-voting-…
Section 2 lawsuits were never easy, but SCOTUS just made them trickier for plaintiffs by raising the bar to prove a violation, giving more leeway to states, and throwing in a new standard that the voting rules from 1982 (!) should also be factored in businessinsider.com/scotus-voting-…
The Court's ruling particularly throws a wrench in the DOJ's Georgia lawsuit by 1) upholding Arizona's out-of-precinct provisional policy 2) raising the bar to show intentional racial discrimination 3) ruling that "cat's paw" doesn't apply to legislatures businessinsider.com/scotus-voting-…
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1 Jul
DNC v. Brnovich is here!! Held: "Arizona’s out-of-precinct policy and HB 2023 do not violate §2 of the VRA, and HB 2023 was not enacted with a racially discriminatory purpose." supremecourt.gov/opinions/20pdf…
From Alito's opinion: "Second, we think it prudent to make clear at the beginning that we decline in these cases to announce a test to govern all VRA §2 claims involving rules, like those at issue here, that specify the time, place, or manner for casting ballots..."
More from Alito: "But the mere fact there is some disparity in impact does not necessarily mean that a system is not equally open or that it does not give everyone an equal opportunity to vote. The size of any disparity matters." supremecourt.gov/opinions/20pdf…
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