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2 Aug, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Contrary to the WH press release, in the ruling upholding the #EvictionMoratorium, only one Justice said that “congressional authorization … would be necessary for the CDC to extend the moratorium past July 31.”

Only one. Not five.

@POTUS must act now to stop the bleeding. 🧵
For those who think the Supreme Court would strike down a CDC extension of the #EvictionMoratorium anyway:

That’s a great argument to expand the Supreme Court.
The rise of the Delta variant should remind us that we are still in the midst of a generational public health crisis.

The doctors and scientists in white coats should lead our response, not five lawyers in black robes
None of this is an excuse for Congress not to act.

If President Biden won’t fix this, we have to. I’m in D.C. to fight alongside @CoriBush and our colleagues for the #EvictionMoratorium. Who else is with us?

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29 Jul
There’s been a lot of factually inaccurate talk about student debt cancellation today, so let’s clear a few things up.

President Biden has the clear authority to liberate 43 million Americans from the crushing burden of student debt. He needs to use it.

🧵🧵
The Higher Education Act gives the Secretary of Education the power to “enforce, pay, compromise, waive, or release any right, title, claim, lien, or demand, however acquired.”

In other words, it gives him the power to cancel any student debt held by the federal government.
What’s more, regulations issued by the Justice and Treasury Departments give the Secretary the clear authority “to compromise a debt, or suspend or terminate collection of a debt,” arising from a Title IV loan program. 

Title IV loans make up over 90% of student loan debt.
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13 Jul
As Texas tries to become the latest GOP-led state to drag us back into Jim Crow, all eyes will be on the President as he lays out his vision for saving democracy.

The American people are looking to @POTUS to take seriously the threat of voter suppression in this dire moment.
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.@POTUS must demand federal legislative action, and call on reluctant Senators to end the filibuster and pass the For the People Act. There is no alternative.

Organizing will not save us.
Money will not save us.
The Supreme Court certainly will not save us.
If we don’t pass the For the People Act, the party of insurrection will retake the House, and Biden’s presidency will be effectively over. He won’t be able to pass meaningful legislation. He may well be impeached. The window for saving our democracy will have closed.
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6 Jun
Sen. Manchin’s op-ed on the #ForThePeopleAct is full of unsound, unserious arguments. 

Let’s unpack it.
Only Democrats are having a “debate about how to best protect our right to vote.” State Republicans are ramming through voter suppression laws along party lines. There’s no comparison.

The solution is not to unilaterally surrender. It is to undo the damage.
Not a single Democrat voted for the 15th Amendment. Did that destroy our republic?
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21 Apr
It’s not unprecedented for Congress to adjust the size of the Supreme Court to defeat white supremacy. We’ve done it three times before.

Here are some examples from our nation’s First Reconstruction. 🧵🧵
The year was 1861.

The Supreme Court was run by white supremacists who decided Dred Scott.

President Lincoln warned that if Congress didn’t check the Court, “the people will have ceased to be their own rulers.”

In 1863, Congress answered Lincoln’s call — expanding the Court.
Then in 1866, after Lincoln’s assassination, the white supremacist Andrew Johnson was President. A seat on the Court sat empty.

If Johnson filled it, the Court could have halted Reconstruction.

So Congress shrank the Court from 10 justices to 7, and Johnson never filled a seat.
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28 Dec 20
COVID-19 rates are soaring across this country and across #NY17. We must do everything we can to keep ourselves and our communities safe.

That's why today, at the advice of the Capitol Attending Physician, I received the first dose of the Pfizer vaccine.
I’m doing this now to instill confidence in the vaccine. I’m aware that there is significant skepticism towards the vaccine, especially in the Black and brown communities that have been most impacted by the virus. I completely understand.
We have work to do to counteract the devastating legacy of racism in our medical system. That's why I'm committed to ensuring the vaccine reaches our most vulnerable communities and our essential workers as quickly as possible.
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19 Dec 20
Today, I was nominated to serve on @HouseJudiciary. To say I’m honored would be an understatement.

The committee has jurisdiction over so many vital issues that affect us: voting rights, the courts, antitrust, racial justice, LGBTQ+ rights.

Here’s what I’ll be fighting for 👇🏿
Our democracy is broken.

Voter suppression is rampant. People of color are systematically excluded from our political process. And due to unjust campaign finance laws, the wealthy and well-connected have outsize control over our political process.

We must restore our democracy.
The far right has spent decades on a hostile takeover of our federal courts. There is now a 6-3 hyper-partisan, conservative majority on the Supreme Court that favors big business over working people, and seeks to undermine our democracy.

We must expand the Court.
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