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Mar 11 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
Nowhere in this story does it mention Pence's role in Trump's efforts to deny $391 million in military aid to Ukraine until Zelenskyy helped Trump get reelected.

Instead, it simply quotes Pence saying, "I can tell you the American people are with you." cbsnews.com/news/ukraine-r…
Trump "repeatedly involved" Pence in efforts to extort Zelenskyy, current and former U.S. officials have said. washingtonpost.com/world/national…
And of course, congressional Republicans who backed Trump's extortion scheme in 2019 are hoping you'll forget all about that and are now lining up to support military aid to Ukraine. huffpost.com/entry/gop-ukra…
CNN doesn't mention Pence's role in Trump's efforts to extort Zelenskyy, either.

In fact, this whole piece is structured around separating Pence from Trump.

It quotes Pence saying, "There is no room in this party for apologists for Putin." cnn.com/2022/03/10/pol…
Fox News, of course, also doesn't mention Pence's role in Trump's efforts to deny $391M in military aid to Ukraine until Zelenskyy helped Trump get reelected.

Instead, it quotes Pence saying the effects of Russia's invasion are "heartbreaking." foxnews.com/politics/pence…
The Hill, too, only framed Pence's trip as a heartfelt visit with an evangelical Christian group.

It quotes Pence, "Let’s stand together as one with the ppl of Ukraine."

Okay but also remember how you helped Trump try to extort the Ukrainian president? thehill.com/homenews/campa…
2019 was only a few years ago, guys.

Don't forget what Republicans did.

They lined up behind Trump's effort to push a conspiracy theory spread by Russian intelligence + block $391M in military aid to Ukraine until its leader helped his reelection. huffpost.com/entry/gop-ukra…
Let's also not forget Pence's decades-long record of not being the most moral, compassionate politician.

Just two days ago...

Also, speaking of having compassion for refugees fleeing a god awful situation in their home countries, let's not forget about Pence trying to bar Syrian refugees from coming to his state. npr.org/2016/10/03/496…

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Mar 11
Good morning. ☕️

From last night: In a first for President Biden, progressive groups are actively trying to tank one of his judicial nominees, Jennifer Rearden. huffpost.com/entry/progress…
Rearden, up for a lifetime seat on a U.S. district court in New York, has “worked against the interests of historically oppressed members of our communities," these groups wrote to Sen. Dick Durbin + Dems on the Judiciary Cmte.

"We strongly urge you to reject this nomination."
Rearden was previously nominated to this court seat by Trump.
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Mar 10
Mike Pence meets with two of Israel's most virulent racists huffpost.com/entry/mike-pen… via @danielmarans
Remember when Mike Pence tried a bar Syrian refugees from coming to Indiana? And then a panel of conservative judges on a federal appeals court stepped in to say he couldn't do that because it was discriminatory? npr.org/2016/10/03/496…
And that time Mike Pence fueled an HIV outbreak in Indiana because he responded to a horrifying health crisis with prayer instead of needle exchanges? huffpost.com/entry/mike-pen…
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Mar 9
When Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson sits down for her Senate confirmation hearing later this month, get ready for some laughably bad — if not offensive — attacks by Republicans on Jackson’s record as a public defender.

My latest: huffpost.com/entry/republic…
I've watched for months as Republicans in the Judiciary Committee have attacked Biden's judicial picks for being “soft on crime" when it makes no sense.

It's the message the GOP's settled on for 2022, yes, but it's been surreal watching them try to roll it out in here.
They've just been berating everyone they can for supposedly driving up crime and flouting laws, when the people they're talking about are...

Public defenders
Innocence Project attorneys
Literally just a Biden judicial nominee! huffpost.com/entry/republic…
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Mar 9
It's official: Senate Democrats have included the bipartisan Violence Against Women Act reauthorization bill in the omnibus spending bill.

It's been 3 years since Congress failed to reauthorize VAWA, and nearly 10 since they've passed a new VAWA bill.
This is a big deal because the main reason VAWA hasn't been renewed, updated, strengthened, etc is because Senate Republicans repeatedly blocked it. They even blocked their own damn bill on this.

This time around, it has 10-11 Republican cosponsors along with Dems.
So what does this new VAWA bill do?

It reauthorizes VAWA programs through 2027.

It also has new stuff in it that domestic violence prevention advocates say is badly, badly needed. huffpost.com/entry/violence…
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Mar 3
As Ketanji Brown Jackson makes the rounds this week with senators ahead of her Supreme Court confirmation hearing, don't forget, amid the joint photos and fair-minded statements being put out by GOP senators, that all but 3 GOPers opposed her in June. huffpost.com/entry/ketanji-…
Also don't forget how badly some of these Republicans have been treating Black, female nominees in their Judiciary Committee hearings.
Just yesterday, Josh Hawley was going after another one of Biden's judicial nominees, Arianna Freeman, a 12.5-year public defender, because she advocated for the constitutional rights of one of her clients in 1981.
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Mar 3
The Senate Judiciary Committee unexpectedly canceled a hearing this a.m. with votes on 6 judicial nominees on the agenda.

Committee aide tells me Rs agreed to consider today's nominees to be held over for a week, without meeting to decide this, so all will get votes next week.
Also worth nothing that two Dem members of the committee are out right now.

Padilla has COVID.
Feinstein's husband just passed away.

Their votes wouldn't have been needed if the cmte was just gonna hold over all these nominees today. But they'll likely be needed at vote time.
Given the way Republicans treated one of these 6 nominees in her confirmation hearing, Nina Morrison, I would say Dems need all of their members present to vote her out of committee.

Republicans treated her like shit + their attacks were among the dumbest I've ever seen in here.
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