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Forrest Nabors
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Nov 15, 2021 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
@RBrookhiser Found it.

Letter to Calhoun Nov. 20, 1847 from John A. Campbell, then practicing attorney in Alabama, future justice on SCOTUS.

FJ Jameson, ed., Correspondence of John C. Calhoun, vol. 2, pt. 2 (Wash: GPO, 1900), 1143. @RBrookhiser Note that this letter predates Calhoun's "slavery follows the flag" argument on the floor of the Senate in 1850, when asserting the unconstitutionality of any slave prohibitions in the territories.

Then, Campbell joins SCOTUS in 1853.

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Aug 28, 2018 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
@DailyCaller 1/ But Strzok did do something. He & others at FBI/DoJ made sure that "ain't noone gonna do sh*t," about HRC's criminal negligence, to quote another FBI interviewing agent. @DailyCaller 2/ Then Strzok & co made sure that Trump was set up for Russia collusion and the allied press ran stories like this...
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Aug 23, 2018 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
@MittRomney 1/ So, Manafort looks guilty of tax evasion. Evidence in Cohen case increases likelihood Trump paid a prostitute. Hunter looks guilty of campaign finance violations. Does this show nonpartisan law enforcement? @MittRomney 2/ But did Manafort investigation require raid of his home? While gross as heck, does Trump's payment to a prostitute violate campaign finance law? If Hunter's crimes go back to 2010 & DoJ appointed prosecutor last year, why was indictment unsealed after GOP primary in June 2018?