The prevailing take on John Roberts and Roe's overruling seems to be that the Roberts Court has been commandeered by the five justices to his right. But another school of thought is the bench’s rightward shift has been more of a mixed blessing for the politically savvy Roberts
As some court watchers note, Roberts has often hewed to an incremental approach due to concerns over the court’s public perception, not because he necessarily disagrees with the outcome of a case
Mar 25, 2022 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
Justice Thomas participated in at least 10 post-election cases by my count—that's if you include procedural rulings like where the court declined to hear a case🧵
Nov. 6, 2020 thehill.com/regulation/cou…
Mar 3, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
BREAKING: NY Gov. Cuomo apologizes amid sexual harassment accusations:
CUOMO: "I now understand that I acted in a way that made people feel uncomfortable. It was unintentional. And I truly, and deeply apologize for. I feel awful about it. And frankly, I am embarrassed by it."
CUOMO says he won't resign:
"I don't think today's the day for politics. I wasn't elected by politicians, I was elected by the people of the state of New York. I'm not going to resign. I work for the people of the state of New York—they elected me."
Mar 2, 2021 • 38 tweets • 6 min read
⚖️🏦Good morning from the (virtual) Supreme Court. The court will hear arguments at 10am in a major voting rights clash over GOP-backed voting restrictions in Arizona that Dems and civil rights groups say discriminate against racial minorities. Folo this space for live tweets🧵👇
Here's a preview of the case thehill.com/regulation/cou…
Feb 13, 2021 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Trump is on track to be acquitted. But notable that GOP members Cassidy, Collins voted guilty (vote still ongoing)
Murkowski votes guilty
Jan 11, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
NEW: Statement from Amazon Web Services (AWS) on lawsuit brought by Parler: “There is no merit to these claims. AWS provides technology and services to customers across the political spectrum, and we respect Parler’s right to determine for itself what content it will allow. (1/4)
"However, it is clear that there is significant content on Parler that encourages and incites violence against others, and that Parler is unable or unwilling to promptly identify and remove this content, which is a violation of our terms of service. (2/4)
Jan 11, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
BREAKING: NY State Bar Assoc'n launches inquiry into whether Rudy Giuliani's membership should be stripped after hundreds of complaints.
Assoc'n says its "bylaws state that no person who advocates the overthrow of the government of the United States [...] shall be a member"
Full statment —>
Jan 7, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
🚨POLL: A majority of Republicans (52%) blame JOE BIDEN for the storming of the Capitol
Jan 7, 2021 • 5 tweets • 5 min read
Roundup of front pages from around the country (thread)
Dec 18, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
🚨🏛️BREAKING: Supreme Court, in 6-3 ruling, dismisses challenge to Trump admin's exclusion of undocumented immigrants from the U.S. the census count, which is used to allocate House seats among the states. Majority finds issues with standing and ripeness. Three liberals dissent
Coverage of Nov. 30 oral arguments below👇 (story on opinion to come) thehill.com/regulation/527…
Dec 11, 2020 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
🚨🚨⚖️JUST IN: A *new* amicus has been filed that increases to 126 yesterday's number of 106 Republican House members who now support Texas' bid to overturn President-elect Joe Biden's win in the Supreme Court. Here's the new list, with the 20 additional GOP members👇
Dec 10, 2020 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
⚖️JUST IN: New amicus brief from 106 Republican House members in support of Texas' bid to overturn President-elect Joe Biden's win in the Supreme Court. Here they are👇
Nov 17, 2020 • 14 tweets • 2 min read
⚖️STARTING NOW: Hearing in Donald J. Trump For President, Inc. et al v. Boockvar et al (Pennsylvania election lawsuit)
A lawyer repping PA's SecState Kathy Boockvar, Daniel Donovan of Kirkland Ellis, taking lead for defendants
It appears Rudy Giuliani will do the same for Trump campaign
Nov 10, 2020 • 52 tweets • 7 min read
⚖️🏥 Let's do a MEGATHREAD while we wait for arguments to begin in the big GOP challenge to ObamaCare at SCOTUS, shall we? (you can listen to it on CSPAN at 10am, fyi) (1/x)
Three issues:
(1) standing,
(2) did the '17 Trump tax bill, which zeroed out the tax penalty for not buying health insurance, render the individual insurance mandate unconstitutional?
(3) if the individual mandate IS unconstitutional, must the entire ACA be struck down?(2/x
Nov 10, 2020 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Per below, top Republicans don't actually believe the vote was subject to fraud but are pretending to for political expediency. They fear that saying Biden won will alienate Trump's base ahead of critical GA elections and cost GOP their Senate majority washex.am/35bemGB
Nov 9, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
⚖️Reminder: The Justice Department, on behalf of the Trump admin, will join a group of GOP states at the Supreme Court tomorrow to urge the 6-3 conservative court to strike down ObamaCare in its entirety
From a preview story I just filed:
The political ground has shifted at an astonishing rate since the justices agreed in March to take up this latest Republican challenge to the ACA. (2/3)
Nov 8, 2020 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
This rather chilling prediction comes from an email exchange I had in SEPTEMBER with a former top Pentagon official who served in high level govt roles in several previous admins:
“The period between November 3 and January 20 promises to be the most anarchic in our history...
...”Whatever the outcome is, it will be regarded by a significant portion of our population as illegitimate.”
Nov 8, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
As some of you know, I’ve been tracking the election lawsuits closely. So let me just say this for whoever may need to hear this
📢 THERE IS NO EVIDENCE OF WIDESPREAD FRAUD
Here is a running list of election litigation. It is not exhaustive, so please do flag me with any updates/corrections
2020: Doomscrolling📱
2021: Books📚
Anyone else just catch a whiff of used bookstore?
Nov 4, 2020 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
USPS sent the following: "The assumption that there are unaccounted ballots within the Postal Service network is inaccurate. These ballots were delivered in advance of the election deadlines. ...(1/4)
...We employed extraordinary measures to deliver ballots directly to local boards of elections. When this occurs, by design, these ballots bypass certain processing operations and do not receive a final scan. Instead, they are expedited directly to the boards of elections (2/4)
Nov 4, 2020 • 14 tweets • 3 min read
U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan in hearing right now to USPS' counsel: "I'm not pleased about this 11th hour development last night. (...) I'd like you to explain just what they heck happened."
USPS counsel: "When the order came in the Postal Inspectors were not we're not physically in the sites." Says "there wasn't enough time" given "other election mail duties"
