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May 25 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
It's important to note that as President, Biden's role in forcing legislative action on #GunControl is pretty limited
With a have a hyper-partisan 50/50 Senate
Last night Schumer took a procedural step to move the Background Check & the Enhanced Background Checks acts fwd
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They are HR8 & HR 1446
Both passed the House in March '21
Placing them on the legislative calendar means Schumer can file cloture & move for a vote asap
He can force 50 GOP Senators on the record
But don't hold your breath
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Instead of these bills it appears the GOP Senate are beginning to make noise about various other legislative "deals" about "gun safety" & "red flag" laws
This could very well be more obfuscation
Dems are working their asses off on this
But no one is encouraged
#Uvalde #GunControl
Sorry guys, that's supposed to say "we have a hyper-partisan .."
Rough day

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May 11
SCOTUS Justices will hold a "private, closed-door conference" tomorrow
To date "none of the conservative justices who initially sided with Alito have switched their votes. No dissenting draft opinions have circulated from any justice"
Short thread:
politico.com/news/2022/05/1…
2/"“That could explain why no second draft of Alito’s majority opinion has been distributed, as typically the two sides react to one another’s written arguments and recast their own.
3/"As the nine justices prepare for their scheduled, private, closed-door conference this week, they face one of the greatest crises in modern Supreme Court history, with an internal leak investigation under way,
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May 5
So:
JD Vance has outsourced many campaign ops
(including oppo)
thru POV -his super PAC
Per FEC it's illegal for a campaign cmte & a super PAC to "communicate"
So attached is the public Medium page POV has set up with all the research
Looks like it's for supporters
It isn't
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Here:
medium.com/@protectohiova…
3/ This Medium account includes stuff like B Roll footage Vance's camp can use in ads
Looks simple
But in the 2/6 post for "polling" you will find a dropbox acct with *extensive* oppo research reports
On his primary opponents
And on Vance
Ohh I think this won't go well for JD ..
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Apr 29
Per @PunchbowlNews AM re McCarthy:
"..GOP leadership is on edge. We’ve gotten numerous queries about what else may come..There’s serious angst in the leadership about who taped these private phone calls..lots of finger pointing over who’s to blame for this period of upheaval."
@PunchbowlNews 2/"..McCarthy doesn’t really have formal opposition among [GOP] at this point. Questions and doubts? Yes, sure. There’s a lot of chatter right now among members..Gaetz is the only GOPer actively agitating against McCarthy probable ascension to speaker.."
3/BUT: "Trump is simultaneously McCarthy’s biggest asset and liability. Trump presumably knows that McCarthy is likely to win the speakership, and that’s why he’s backing him. But maybe McCarthy’s grip weakens in the coming month, giving Trump an opportunity to play games.
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Apr 21
NYT:
More on McConnell & McCarthy's private outrage at Trump following 1/6
-the abject fear Kevin McCarthy felt at Trump's potential political retribution
And the GOP's "extraordinary political weakness"
thread:
nytimes.com/2022/04/21/us/…
2/"In the days after the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol building, the two top Republicans in Congress, Representative Kevin McCarthy and Senator Mitch McConnell, told associates they believed Trump was responsible for inciting the deadly riot and vowed to drive him from politics.
3/"Mr. McCarthy went so far as to say he would push Mr. Trump to resign immediately: “I’ve had it with this guy,” he told a group of Republican leaders.
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Apr 7
Seems Trump is worried about what Ivanka & others around him on 1/6 are telling the cmte @ his unwillingness to stop the riot
Per a WaPo interview:
He's now publicly attempting to deflect blame to Pelosi & DC Mayor Bowser
Pathetic and desperate

washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/…
2/"Former president Trump voiced regret Wednesday over not marching to the U.S. Capitol the day his supporters stormed the building, & he defended his long silence during the attack by claiming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and others were responsible for ending the deadly violence.
3/"'I thought it was a shame, and I kept asking why isn’t she doing something about it? Why isn’t Nancy Pelosi doing something about it? And the mayor of D.C. also. The mayor of D.C. and Nancy Pelosi are in charge,' Trump said of the Jan. 6, 2021, riot in a 45-minute interview
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Mar 24
Thread:
Day 4
KBJ/GOP witnesses testify today
-including 4 lawyers from ABA
& sev others
She withstood nearly 24 hrs of questioning this wk
-including brutal hammering by GOP
She'll be back on the Hill meeting with more Senators today as she heads to a full vote w/in 2 wks
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Testifying for KBJ today:
CBC Chair Joyce Beatty
Wade Henderson, president/CEO of Leadership Conference on Civil Rights
Risa Goluboff, dean of UVA Law School
Richard Rosenthal, an appellate lawyer & longtime friend
Captain Frederick Thomas, National President of NOBLE
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GOP witnesses against KBJ:
ALA AG Steve Marshall
Jennifer Mascott, George Mason U ass't law prof Eleanor McCullen, anti-abortion rights activist
Keisha Russell of First Liberty, a religious liberty advocate
Alessandro Serano, an anti-human trafficking activist
So..more bs
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