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Elizabeth Rogers @ahumorlessfem
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Tell me more about how it was "Clinton didn't go to Wisconsin"
Interesting fact: Wisconsin, Pennsylvsnia, and Michigan all had stricter voter suppression laws in place with Michigan attempting after the 2016 election to be even more restrictive.
Because of court rulings being done too shortly before the elections, a great many poll workers turned away voters who could vote.
So no, Clinton going or not going to that state had no where near the impact of voter suppression by Republicans.

Suppression that @marcushjohnson rightly calls corruption.
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You are, if I was to be kind, a day late and a dollar short.

You eagerly and happily used their disinformation campaign because your ego couldn't take losing to a woman, again.
I don't want to be kind.

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You hired a guy who worked on Russian disinformation campaigns. Who also was cool with cheating.
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Let's talk about Kamala Harris and her being a prosecutor and how that will be amazing for the 2020 race.
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In 2016 we had the career government employee v the business buffoon. I mean business mobster, I mean businessman.
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On this Independence Day, when we celebrate the U.S. as a democracy and as we await a Scalia-like successor to Justice Kennedy to be nominated for #SCOTUS, some thoughts on how the Court could set the cause of voting rights back significantly in the years to come: /1
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In the first category, at the top of my list is that #SCOTUS with a fifth hard conservative on race could either hold that Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act is an unconstitutional racial classification or interpret it so weekly it dies death by 1,000 cuts /3
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Five years ago, five justices on the Supreme Court invalidated key provisions of the Voting Rights Act that for decades protected voters in states with pernicious histories of voting discrimination. Don't forget what happened in the immediate aftermath of this appalling decision:
Within 24 hours of the decision, the conservative justices prompted a deluge of voter suppression legislation. Texas and Alabama announced plans to plow ahead with restrictive and previously blocked voter-ID laws. Weeks later, N.C. passed its monster voter suppression law.
Five years later, the landscape is worse: The Republican voter suppression campaign now has the enthusiastic endorsement of the nation’s president – a president who is stacking the federal courts with the very people who cheered the dismantling of the Voting Rights Act.
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Last night, a federal judge dealt a major blow to voter suppression efforts in Kansas in a ruling that could have national repercussions: motherjones.com/politics/2018/…
Kris Kobach, the nation's most prominent voice behind the myth of widespread voter fraud, defended the law himself. It went so poorly that the judge ordered Kobach, a Yale-educated attorney, to take 6 hrs of classes on how to introduce evidence at trial.
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