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Ian Bassin 🇺🇦 Profile picture
@ianbassin
Mar 4 • 3 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
The loudest sentence in today’s opinion is the one that’s not there. The Court had a chance to absolve Trump of having engaged in insurrection against the United States and declined to do that, which is a stunning statement by our nation’s highest court. /1
While Trump may have won a battle over legal technicalities to restore himself to the ballot, he lost on the bigger question of whether he’d be absolved of being an insurrectionist. On that question the Court has now passed the ball to all Americans to ultimately decide.. /2
..on the fitness for office of someone who refused to accept the will of the voters and launched a violent insurrection against our government to block the transfer of power. /end

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Feb 25, 2022
Five years ago, we launched @protctdemocracy. I told @Politico at the time that “We need an organization that is specifically and holistically focused on the worst-case scenario” that Trump might pose an authoritarian threat to our democracy. /1 politico.com/story/2017/02/…
Since then, we've built a team beyond the Obama lawyers who helped launch it to include progressives, moderates and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans, committed to protecting our Republic. /2
And we've engaged in a vast array of work to protect democratic institutions, through litigation and legal strategies, policy development and legislative advocacy, public education and strategic communications, technology and more /3 time.com/5859215/protec…
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Jan 7, 2022
@cynlyn52 @chrislhayes @allinwithchris @protctdemocracy Thank you. First, we're the only advanced democracy in the world with essentially a supermajority requirement for basic legislation. /1
@cynlyn52 @chrislhayes @allinwithchris @protctdemocracy Second, the notion that the filibuster fosters bipartisanship is just contradicted by the data. Over the past 30 years nearly 80% of filibustered bills were bipartisan. The average had support from 5 Senators on the other side. /2
@cynlyn52 @chrislhayes @allinwithchris @protctdemocracy Third, the idea that w/o a filibuster there would be wild swings in policy from year to year that would destabilize the country ignores that we didn't regularly use the filibuster for the nation's first 200 years and became the strongest nation on earth. /3
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Mar 9, 2021
Something very weird is happening over at the @BulwarkOnline.

People who disagree about policy but are all living in reality are debating the next big congressional priority, HR1 (the big democracy reform bill).

If you're interested, follow along.. /1
First, my colleagues @justingflorence and Rachel Homer wrote a primer on HR1, The For The People Act. This set of reforms for our democracy is now the top congressional agenda item after COVID relief. /2 thebulwark.com/hr1-for-dummie…
In response, @SykesCharlie writes this critique of HR1. It's harsh (and I don't agree with it), but it's a good faith set of objections rooted in the reality that there are rampant efforts to suppress voters that DO need to be addressed by Congress. /3 morningshots.thebulwark.com/p/whats-wrong-…
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Jan 7, 2021
As dark as today has been, I want to not lose sight of the light on the horizon. I started this thread before today's events, but share it now all the same as it will be part of the solution.

Why we should all be thrilled about @joebiden's nominees to lead @TheJusticeDept. /1
First, after the damage that has been done to the Dept and the rule of law over the past four years by Trump and Bill Barr, it was critical that the incoming AG not be a political actor -- so not someone who's held or run for office with a "D" next to their name, and also /2
..not someone who is a close long-time associate of the President's.

The AG at this point especially needs to be someone more associated with the independent application of the law, at arm's length from the WH, and above and outside of politics. /3
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Mar 3, 2020
I'm going to go super law nerd THREAD here and just quote this brief about why Trump's Supreme Court argument is wrong. And mind you, this is from former Republican members of congress, exec branch officials who served Republican presidents, and conservative legal experts. /1
"Since the Founding, it has been a bedrock principle in this country that nobody is above the law, not even the president. The king against whom the Founders rebelled was immune from judicial process, which was considered “incompatible with his dignity.” United States v. Burr. /2
In creating the presidency, the Founders explicitly rejected this model of leadership. See Federalist No. 69 (Hamilton) (“And it appears yet more unequivocally, that there is no pretense for the parallel which has been attempted between him and the king of Great Britain /3
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Nov 2, 2019
@tribelaw @jennycohn1 @protctdemocracy There's always more work to do! And we're still at it. @jennycohn1 is right to advocate for hand marked paper ballots. They are the gold standard and we've advocated for them too in comments we submitted to @ncsbe back in August. protectdemocracy.org/resource-libra…
@tribelaw @jennycohn1 @protctdemocracy @NCSBE We've also supported the heroic work of @MarilynRMarks1 and the Coalition for Good Government in their efforts to ensure hand marked paper ballots in Georgia. law.com/dailyreportonl…
@tribelaw @jennycohn1 @protctdemocracy @NCSBE @MarilynRMarks1 But none of that should distract from major stride of PA shutting door on insecure paperless systems. Most PA voters live in counties that, as recently as 2018, have been using old machines running outdated software, with well-known vulnerabilities, that produce no paper record.
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