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May 7 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
This 2018 op-ed by @YaleLawSch Prof. Akhil Amar was 1) a con job by @FedSoc, 2) the incredibly naive view of an excessively theoretical liberal, or 3) a sellout to get another Yalie on SCOTUS.
All I know is that women voters in #MN01 are really pissed.
thehill.com/opinion/judici…
It's @YaleLawSch, so let's boil this theoretically neutral judicial philosophy down to a Latin phrase:
Ego similis cervisiam
@YaleLawSch @FedSoc Anyone who thinks these one percenters will do anything for the ninety-nine percent is a real sucker. Conning hard working people every two years in November is the name of their game. They spend the rest of their time taking in the money.
currentaffairs.org/2022/04/right-…
A Yalie casting himself as a hillbilly. It's amazing anyone would fall for this con. Let's see if it lasts through November.
nytimes.com/2022/05/03/us/…

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Is this a joke? I'll be flipping the U.S. House seat in #MN01 from red to blue anyway, but @mngop should at least try to find a decent candidate. This one's best friend is still in the Hennepin County lockup .....
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Click here and let's flip this House seat Blue!
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May 3
My wife, a tenured professor and a #MeToo victim, has sued @UMN_Music over harassment, discrimination and retaliation. In Congress I will make sure that universities and other employers are held accountable and that all #MeToo victims have legal remedies.
mndaily.com/?p=270303
Allegations supported by evidence include a former @UMN_Music director looking under a professor's skirt and talking with male colleagues about what he saw and a professor every year asking graduate students in oral exams which scholars they want to "shag, marry or kill." Gross.
The federal judge said that this #MeToo case belongs in state court. Federal remedies for harassment victims aren't working. That will change when I get to Congress to represent #MN01. There needs to be a viable federal remedy for all #MeToo victims.
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Apr 25
Once again, rape and sex slavery by the military are instruments of war.
These war crimes must be prosecuted.

Allegations of mass rape by Russian troops in Ukraine f24.my/8ZSY.T via @FRANCE24
When Mark Ramseyer published his paper calling WW2 sex slaves prostitutes, some called it "academic freedom."
Most of us, including two Nobel Prize winning economists, called it denial of a war crime.
Now women are once again being held captive in Ukraine.
nytimes.com/2021/02/26/wor…
As women are once again raped by occupying soldiers, this time in Ukraine, we remember that those who deny past war crimes make future war crimes much more likely. Men who justify wartime sex crimes are almost as dangerous as the rapists themselves.
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Apr 19
Why won't other justices comment on Justice Thomas's bad ethics? Because they won't criticize a "colleague." Same as in the military, police departments, academia and every profession.
No group of "colleagues" should make their own rules, including SCOTUS.
npr.org/2022/03/30/108…
Like any other group of "colleagues" in the workplace, particularly those with lifetime tenure, SCOTUS is a club. Congress should pass a law providing for enforcement of conflict of interest rules for justices. "Self governance" by the justices themselves has been a joke.
The House Judiciary Committee should investigate whether Justice Thomas should have recused from cases involving the White House and January 6 insurrection and whether he knew that his wife was texting the White House on January 6. He violated this law:
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Apr 4
Here's yet more number crunching for "rankings" by the dean of @PeppLaw.
My advice: Treating LGBTQ students with respect goes a long way toward improving a law school's reputation "score." @PeppLaw take note...
taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2…
"Pepperdine University affirms that sexual relationships are designed by God to be expressed solely within a marriage between husband and wife.”
Huh?
pepperdine-graphic.com/how-pepp-stack…
Sorry, @PeppLaw -- SCOTUS says marriage equality is in the Constitution, and many of us Christians say it's in our faith as well.
glaad.org/amp/episcopali…
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Apr 4
This same University "Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action" office protected a professor and dean who for years asked female graduate students in oral exams which famous scholars they wanted to "shag, marry or kill." Then came another lawsuit. A mess.
mndaily.com/?p=271853
Congress needs to pass legislation cracking down on discrimination by university administrators, professors and staff against women, minorities and the disabled. Compliance offices have been excusing discriminatory abuse of discretion for far too long.
We must fix this. #MN01.
Not to mention a department head who looked up a tenured professor's skirt, told other men in the office what he saw and then wrote a long and nasty letter for her promotion file. Off to court she went.....
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