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Nov 30 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
NEWS: Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson has issued a dissent in Kevin Johnson's death penalty case, joined by Justice Sonia Sotomayor, explaining why she would have granted him a stay of execution. The stay was denied on Tuesday, and Missouri killed Johnson. lawdork.com/p/missouri-wan… KEVIN JOHNSON v. MISSOURI ON APPLICATION FOR STAY [November
Here is Justice Jackson's dissenting opinion: scribd.com/document/61142…
Regarding the Missouri statute that allowed the special prosecutor to review Johnson's case, Jackson writes: "The Missouri Supreme Court turned this straightforward procedural statute on its head." The Missouri Supreme Court turned this straightforward proce
Justice Jackson writes that what happened to Kevin Johnson was "so fundamentally flawed, and so at odds with basic due process principles, that Johnson was likely to succeed in establishing ... a Fourteenth Amendment violation."

Nonetheless, Missouri killed him last night. In short, a State cannot provide a process for postconvic- t
Here's the #SCOTUS website link for the dissenting opinion from Justice Jackson: supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pdf…
My @lawdorknews report has been updated to include mention of today’s dissent in Kevin Johnson’s case: lawdork.com/p/missouri-wan…

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Nov 29
Happening Now: Three Republican opponents of the Respect for Marriage Act are proposing amendments to the bill, the votes on which have begun. At 3:45pm today, Tuesday, November 29, the Senate will proceC-SPAN screengrab of Senate floor, as vote on Lee amendment
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This version will now go to the House, where quick passage is expected, followed by transmission to Biden for signature.
All of the GOP amendments failed.

And, for the record, Sen. @CoryBooker gave the Respect for Marriage Act its necessary 60th yes vote for passage.
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Nov 29
Please don't RT clout guys! People who don't do any reporting, and instead, just take other people's work for RTs. Most of them have been shamed into eventually giving credit, but they'll do it as an aside or as a follow-up tweet — which gets a small percentage of the engagement.
Yes, there are lots of problems that make journalism difficult as a financially sustainable endeavor, but few things get more under my skin than the fact that a new one of these clout-chasing guys appears here every year and just becomes the clout-monster-du-jour.
Last night, a reporter broke a story. His main tweet has 6K likes. A clout guy basically copy-and-pasted the author's tweet (incl the "New"), put the author's @ at the end, & it has 7K likes. Another clout guy did the 2nd-tweet credit thing. First tweet: No story or @, 51K likes.
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Nov 29
Missouri officials want to kill Kevin Johnson tomorrow — despite a special prosecutor finding that racism affected the prosecution & sentencing. He and Johnson are seeking a stay of execution from the Missouri Supreme Court. Arguments were today. Law Dork: lawdork.com/p/missouri-wan…
BREAKING: Missouri Supreme Court REJECTS, on a 5-2 vote, motions for stay of execution for Kevin Johnson. The state supreme court will not stop Tuesday's scheduled execution based on the special prosecutor's request in the case.
Here's the majority opinion, which is per curiam, but joined by five justices. scribd.com/document/61096…
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Nov 26
#GoBuckeyes!
I said what I said!
Mmmmhhmmm. #GoBuckeyes!
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Nov 26
what the fuck is this place anymore?
was a cool place to spend almost 14 years
i’m not leaving (yet), but i am noting that we’ve gone from bad to worse over the past week. and whatever’s happening this holiday weekend is even worse.
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