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25 Oct, 5 tweets, 1 min read
Tonight, the Senate confirmed longtime voting rights attorney and advocate Myrna Pérez to a lifetime seat on a U.S. appeals court huffpost.com/entry/myrna-pe…
Perez's confirmation comes at a time when voting rights are under assault nationwide.

Republicans in 19 states have enacted at least 31 new laws this year to restrict voting rights and overhaul elections for their own partisan gains.
Every Democrat present voted to confirm Perez.

No Republicans voted for her. huffpost.com/entry/myrna-pe…
Also of note about Perez:

She will be the only Latina on this court and just the second Latina to ever serve on this court.

The first was Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor.
Also, don't forget this is a lifetime appointment.

Perez is only 47.

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27 Oct
Oh look, the GOP's much-publicized case of a sexual assault in a Loudoun County, Va. school is not at all what they said it was.

It had nothing to do with transgender-inclusive bathroom policies. But Republicans feigned outrage that it did. huffpost.com/entry/gop-virg… via @aterkel
This was not a case of a teenage girl being ambushed in a girls' bathroom by a "gender fluid" teenage boy.

It was 2 teens who had been regularly using the girls' bathroom for consensual encounters, and then one of these encounters apparently turned violent.
News of the incident was picked up, twisted and amplified by conservative media, which said this was evidence that policies allowing students to use public bathrooms that match their gender ID put girls in danger.

Total garbage.
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26 Oct
Good morning! ☕️

In case you missed it, last night, Senate Democrats confirmed longtime voting rights attorney and advocate Myrna Pérez to a lifetime seat on a U.S. appeals court. huffpost.com/entry/myrna-pe…
Perez's confirmation comes at a time when voting rights are under assault nationwide.

Republicans in 19 states have enacted at least 31 new laws THIS YEAR to restrict voting rights -- primarily targeting people of color -- and overhaul elections for their own partisan gains.
Not a single Republican senator voted to confirm Perez.

These are the same Republican senators who have now blocked voting rights legislation 3 times this year.
Read 8 tweets
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25 Oct
The Congressional Women's Softball Game is THIS Wednesday.

It's female lawmakers vs female reporters. We play to raise $ for young survivors of breast cancer.

We're also encouraged to talk smack to gin up excitement, but I don't need to do that because we are going to win. 😃
Come on out to the game. All are welcome. It's one of few (the only?) events on Cap Hill that remains bipartisan and fun.

The lawmakers' team is led by @SenCapito + @DWStweets. They are fun. They will also be defeated by Bad News Babes. ⚾️

Details here: congwomensoftball.org
You never know who will show up at these games or what will happen.

Sonia Sotomayor threw out a pitch one year.

So did Gabby Giffords.

New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham (then a Rep.) randomly did cartwheels across the field. She was 56. Image
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21 Oct
Lots of Senate action on judicial nominees this week.

A little bit ago, the Senate confirmed Tana Lin to a lifetime seat on a U.S. district court in Washington state.

She'll be the first former public defender + first Asian American to serve as a federal judge in the state.
Lin is currently the president of the board of directors of the ACLU of Washington.

As an attorney for the ACLU, she also successfully challenged Trump's travel ban, obtaining a nationwide injunction preventing his admin from enforcing the policy affecting refugees.
Here she is with Sen. Murray in a cool silk (?) suit.
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21 Oct
This morning, the Senate Judiciary Committee voted to send U.S. appeals court nominee Beth Robinson's nomination to the Senate floor for a final confirmation vote.

If confirmed, Robinson would be the first openly LGBTQ woman to ever serve on any U.S. appeals court.
The committee voted 10-9 to advance Robinson, who has been an associate judge on the Vermont Supreme Court since 2011.

No Republicans voted for her.
Here's more on Beth Robinson, who's on track to be a historic first. huffpost.com/entry/joe-bide…
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21 Oct
Good morning. ☕️

Senate Republicans turned a judicial nominee's hearing yesterday into a transphobic spectacle, making unverified and offensive claims about "a male wearing a skirt" involved in a Virginia sexual assault case. huffpost.com/entry/republic…
This hearing was supposed to be about Holly Thomas, Biden’s pick for a lifetime seat on a U.S. appeals court.

But Republicans used it to spout transphobic garbage about girls being unsafe in trans-inclusive bathrooms. It was all very 2016 tbh.
Nearly every Republican on the committee wanted to talk about a May incident involving a teenage boy sexually assaulting a teenage girl at a high school in Loudoun County, Va.

This was a hearing for a nominee to a California-based U.S. court seat. Hmm. What's going on here.
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