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Feb 7 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, Barrett, and alleged attempted rapist Brett Kavanaugh vote to let Alabama use it's racist maps, finding (wrongly) that it's too close to the election do anything about racism.

cnn.com/2022/02/07/pol…
It's not a surprise, given who we've allowed to be on the Court. But it is another reminded that the pro-racism wing of the conservative movement is ascendant and will not let the 14th or 15th amendments operate, just like these people did from 1868-->1965
It'd be nice if Senate Democrats could cobble together 50 votes against Jim Crow, but I know that the donors who control Joe Manchin and Krysten Sinema are offended on behalf of Mitt Romney when I call Republican policies what they are.
While we're, Roberts (who sided with the liberals in dissent) can GET FUCKED because most likely NONE OF THIS is happening without him opening the floodgates on voter suppression with Shelby County, Rucho, and Brnovich.

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Elie Mystal Profile picture
Feb 8
People need to stop saying that conservatives on the court are "like" Jim Crow. We are beyond that now. Now the Court is just DOING what the Court DID in the Jim Crow era.

It's just... the same. All that's missing is the violent vigilante enforcement of those rulings.
Like, understand, some states, some of the time, are always going to try to be racist when it comes to voting. Apartheid is in the very DNA of the "state's rights" argument.
The ONLY question is whether the Federal Government will stop them.
The Supreme Court doesn't have to *do* the racism. It just has to let the racism happen by pretending the 14th and 15th Amendment don't exist. That's what it did ever day from 1877 to 1954. That's what's it's done every day since 2013.
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Feb 3
Good faith? Good faith?? What in the hell do you know about operating in good faith? LET'S LOOK AT THE RECIEPTS
Here's @ishapiro on Sotomayor: "In picking Sotomayor President Obama has confirmed that identity politics matter to him more than merit"
WAS THAT OFFERED IN GOOD FAITH?
Oh, your historic demeaning of women of color up for the Supreme Court is old news? Fine, let's look at @ishapiro on first Black Attorney General Eric Holder:
"Attorney General Eric Holder.. is “like a modern-day George Wallace,”
GOOD FAITH?
archive.thinkprogress.org/top-conservati…
Nah. You don't operate in good faith. You operate in dog whistle racism that you count on your white colleagues to either not acknowledge or secretly applaud. You think yourself a "truth teller" merely because you are willing to say racist things aloud.
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Jan 28
A Timeline:
*Law professor makes dumb tweet denigrated black women
* Law professor doubles down on dumb tweet
* Law professor triples down on dumb tweet.
* Other law professors notice
* People with functional hippocampus regions note that law profess has made racist tweets before
* Law professor apologizes
* Law professor deletes first tweets
* Outrage doesn't subside
* Law professor deletes other tweets
* Law school dean apologizes for tweets, now deleted, which apparently fell out of sky.
* White conservatives decide enough has been done...
* White conservatives start criticizing other people for being offended at offensive, deleted tweets
* White conservative publication write article defending professor while distancing from now deleted tweets which fell out of sky.
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Jan 27
This statement from the @GeorgetownLaw Dean is BS and I will tell you why.

If you are a law school that is trying to build a culture of equality and inclusion you DON'T hire Ilya Shapiro.

Dean Treanor wants you to think "the tweets" are damaging, not the DUDE WHO WROTE THEM
In fact, everybody who knows the dude who wrote them knows that this is how the dude who wrote them thinks. INCLUDING GEORGETOWN. He's said THIS EXACT CRAP about women of color before. IT'S HIS GODDAMN BRAND.

To DEFEND Ilya a bit, he has not hidden this about himself.
NOBODY who hires or is even vaguely familiar with him can be surprised by his tweets. So just cut the crap, Dean Treanor. You hired him, you know EXACTLY what you were getting.

What you thought, what *everybody involved* in the hire thought, was that he'd hide it better.
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Jan 27
Also... with Supreme Court audio open to all now, hasn't it really been obvious to people listening in good faith that Kagan, Sotomayor, AND BARRETT consistently ask *the best* questions while the dudes just make speeches or engage in hypothetical pontification.
Like, can we just be HONEST about that? Like, I hate everything that ACB stands for, but when she's got the mic I listen carefully cause she's gonna do a thing.

When Kavanaugh has the mic I listen carefully because his about to say some dumbassery I can dunk on.
Question format for each justice:

Roberts: Isn't it true that all these problems have been solved already?
Thomas: Why should the federal government exist?
Alito: Question? Fuck You is my question.
Breyer: Can you help me out of this hypothetical I've lost myself in?
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Jan 27
There really is something about nominating women of color that brings out the racism of white wing legal academia.

I WISH law schools would think about these before the unleash these professors on young women of color who are just starting out in the field.
But, I know that too many academics, especially but not exclusively white male academics, think that learning from people who will call you "lesser" to your face is some kind of right of passage that people of color just have to suffer through.
Anyway *I* won't forget what any of these assholes say about Biden's pick... just like I haven't forgotten what all these people said about Sotomayor.

But... you will. Law schools will. Deans will. Reporters looking for comment will. Producers looking for guests will.
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