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Mar 2 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Chuck Todd to a correspondent reporting live from Lviv, Ukraine, as the country is under assault by Russia and people are fighting for their lives:

What did the locals think of Biden’s speech? huffpost.com/entry/chuck-to…
I actually thought I must have misheard this.
The refugee crisis is "yet another part of this story that I think a lot of us thought [Biden] would use this time with the American public to speak more about,” Todd said.

“What are you seeing in Lviv, Tom?”
Tom: It's 6 a.m. here.
Also Tom: Yeah I dunno if Biden's State of the Union speech is gonna resonate that much with Ukrainians.

"They are preoccupied right now. They have Russian troops in their country trying to take over their land." huffpost.com/entry/chuck-to…

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Mar 2
Tuning into a Senate Judiciary hearing from this morning to hear Josh Hawley pressing one of Biden's judicial nominees, a 12.5-year public defender, on why she wanted to protect the constitutional rights of one of her clients in 1981.
This is a thing that happens regularly in here: Republicans criticizing a public defender nominee over the alleged crimes of one of her clients + suggesting this nominee is weak on crime by defending this person.

Pitting awfulness of crime against people's constitutional rights.
Booker said as much when it was his turn to talk to this nominee, Arianna Freeman, up for a lifetime seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit.

"Isn't it your solemn obligation to try to defend your client? I guess I was missing something there?"
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Here we go! Biden's State of the Union begins at 9:09pm, according to my laptop.
"From President Zelenskyy to every Ukrainian, their fearlessness, their courage, their determination, inspires the world," begins Biden.

"Groups of citizens blocking tanks with their bodies. Everyone from students to retirees teachers turned soldiers defending their homeland."
"The Ukrainian Ambassador to the United States is here tonight, sitting with the First Lady," Biden says, motioning to the balcony. "Let each of us, if you're able to stand, stand and send an unmistakable signal to the world.

"Thank you. Thank you thank you thank you."
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Mar 1
Sen. Dick Durbin, chair of the Judiciary Committee, said Monday that he’s “very concerned” Republicans will unleash ugly attacks on Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson’s character or her identity as a Black woman. huffpost.com/entry/dick-dur…
Durbin gave a couple reasons why he's worried about this.

One is that he's seen the way some GOP members of the committee have treated other Black, female nominees who have come before the panel.

He's seen a theme to Republicans questioning these nominees' "temperament."
"It doesn’t reflect well on their temperament,” Durbin said of GOP senators doing this to Black female nominees.

“I think there is an opportunity to be direct and pointed without being confrontational and disrespectful.”
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Sen. Durbin tells reporters he can't give many specifics yet on timing re: Ketanji Brown Jackson's confirmation hearing, but says he "would like to" have her confirmation done before the Senate's April recess.
Durbin says he is "very concerned" about Republican senators treating Ketanji Brown Jackson differently/badly during her confirmation hearing because she is a Black woman.

Two reasons, he says.
One reason, he says, is that he's seen his GOP colleagues treat Biden's other judicial nominees (most have been women + people of color) with disrespect when pressing them on their "temperament."

"It does't reflect well on their temperament," Durbin says of GOPers who do this.
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Today, Senate Republicans tried to blame one of President Joe Biden’s judicial nominees — Nina Morrison, an attorney with the Innocence Project who has freed dozens of innocent people from prison and death row— for driving up violent crime across America. huffpost.com/entry/republic…
This was one of the most bonkers Judiciary hearings I've ever seen. And there have been many.

One by one, Republicans, animated by faux anger, attacked a veteran attorney for the Innocence Project -- they free innocent people from prison! -- for unleashing violence in America.
Ted Cruz told this nominee, Nina Morrison, that "skyrocketing crime rates, homicide rates, burglary rates, carjacking rates" are ALL the direct result of policies she's spent her life advocating.

Hawley vowed to oppose her for being "soft on crime."

Huh?huffpost.com/entry/republic…
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Ted Cruz just told a judicial nominee in her Judiciary Committee hearing -- a 20-year lawyer for the Innocence Project -- that "skyrocketing crime rates, homicide rates, burglary rates, carjacking rates" are ALL the direct result of policies she's spent her life advocating.
This nominee, Nina Morrison, has been lead or co-counsel in cases that have freed more than 30 innocent people from prison and death row.
Cruz over here pinning all crimes on a 20-year lawyer for the Innocence Project.
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