Nonilex@masto.ai she/her Not Part Of The 55% I delete tweets for typos & grammatical errors
Jun 30, 2022 • 29 tweets • 6 min read
🚨🚨🚨 This is scary
#SCOTUS “said it will consider what would be a radical change in the way federal elections are conducted, giving state legislatures sole authority to set the rules for contests even if their actions violated state constitutions
1/ washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/…
“& resulted in extreme partisan gerrymandering for congressional seats.
“The court will look next term at a case from NC, where Rs want to restore a redistricting map that was drawn by the GOP-led legislature but rejected as a violation of the state constitution by the state’s SC
Jun 30, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
#SCOTUS sharply cut back the EPA’s ability to reduce the carbon output of existing power plants, a blow to President Biden’s commitment to battle #ClimateChange.
The vote was 6 to 3, w/Chief Justice Roberts writing for the conservatives.
@scotusreporterwashingtonpost.com/politics/2022/…
“‘Capping carbon dioxide emissions at a level that will force a nationwide transition away from the use of coal to generate electricity may be a sensible “solution to the crisis of the day,”’ Roberts wrote, referring to a court precedent.
Jun 29, 2022 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
Lev Parnas Ex-Giuliani Associate Is Sentenced to 20 Months in Prison for Campaign Finance Scheme
Parnas conspired to funnel money from a Russian oligarch to candidates as part of an influence-buying scheme
Jan 2
Giuliani mtg w/ Meadows evening
Cassidy Hutchinson walked Giuliani out & he said to her,
“Are you excited for the 6th? it’s going to be a great day…
“Talk to the Chief he knows…
“We’re going to the Capitol”
Jan. 6 panel moved up hearing over fear that Meadows aide, Cassidy Hutchinson, is in danger due to what she knows.
The cmte abruptly scheduled a surprise hearing due to "sincere concerns" about her safety.
By @IgorDerysh #January6thHearingssalon.com/2022/06/28/jan…
“Hutchinson has been ‘much more cooperative’ w/the cmte since replacing atty Stefan Passantino, a former Trump White House ethics lawyer, w/Jody Hunt, a former chief of staff to then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions.”
(Was she concerned Passantino was leaking to TFG?)
Jun 28, 2022 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Cassidy Hutchinson, aide to Mark Meadows, has spoken to investigators on the cmte multiple times behind closed doors. In the absence of Meadows testimony, Hutchinson is key to understanding the scope of his actions.
@byamberphillips & @WPJohnWagner washingtonpost.com/national-secur…
“Video clips from her interviews have been featured by the panel during earlier hearings, but Tues will be the first time she offers live testimony at a public hearing.…
“Hutchinson was by Meadows’s side leading up to & during the Capitol attack
Jun 27, 2022 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
Federal agents last week seized the cell phone of John Eastman, a lawyer who pushed false claims that mass voter fraud tainted the 2020 election & urged Trump & other Republicans to block Biden from becoming president.
- @DevlinBarrett #TrumpCoupAttemptwashingtonpost.com/national-secur…
“Eastman’s lawyer, Charles Burnham, filed papers in federal court in New Mexico Mon asking a judge to order the cell phone returned to Eastman. It was seized pursuant to a search order when he left a restaurant last Wednesday —
Apr 29, 2022 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
“The cost of this fight is not cheap, but caving to aggression is going to be more costly if we allow it to happen. We either back the Ukrainian people as they defend their country or we stand by as the Russians continue their atrocities & aggression in #Ukraine.” - @POTUS
Pres Biden signaled a vast increase in America’s commitment to defeating Russia in Ukraine on Thurs as he asked Congress to authorize $33B for more artillery, antitank weapons & other hardware + economic & humanitarian aid.
President @ZelenskyyUa said the strikes on Kyiv came “immediately after the end” of his talks w/ @UN Sec Gen @AntonioGuterres. Zelensky said Russian leaders are trying to “humiliate” the #UNwashingtonpost.com/world/2022/04/…
by @SangerNYT & @kateconger @nytimes nytimes.com/live/2022/04/2…
“For wks after the outbreak of the war… American ofcls wondered about… Russia’s mighty cyberarsenal, which most experts expected would be used in the opening hrs of an invasion to bring down Ukraine’s power grid, …cellphone sys & cut off Pres Zelensky from the world.
Apr 27, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
US & Russia announced on Wednesday a prisoner swap that has freed Trevor R. Reed, a fmr Marine who was convicted on charges that his family said were bogus, an unexpected diplomatic breakthrough w/tensions running high over the Ukraine war.
@INechepurenko nytimes.com/2022/04/27/wor…
Mr. Reed, who was initially detained in August 2019, was released in exchange for Konstantin Yaroshenko, a Russian pilot sentenced to a lengthy term in the United States on cocaine-trafficking charges.
Apr 26, 2022 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
Tues, the US marshaled 40 allies to furnish #Ukraine w/long-term military aid, & as diplomacy has failed, Germany shifts its policy & agrees to send dozens of armored antiaircraft vehicles.
by @johnismay, @CFSchuetze & @mlevenson nytimes.com/2022/04/26/wor…
The announcement by #Germany, Europe’s biggest economy & one of Russia’s most important Western trading partners, was among many signals on Tues pointing to further escalation in the war & disappointment for diplomacy.
Dec 2, 2021 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
Jennifer Crumbley, the mother of the Michigan school shooter Ethan Crumbley, penned an open letter to then President-elect Trump, which she posted on her blog, in November 2016.
In it she wrote:
“As a female and a Realtor, thank you for allowing my right to bear arms. Allowing me to be protected if I show a home to someone with bad intentions. Thank you for respecting that Amendment.”
12 counts of possession of a firearm in the commission of a felony.
Ms. McDonald said she is also considering charges against the suspect’s parents.
Dec 1, 2021 • 6 tweets • 4 min read
Who Is Scott Stewart, the Lawyer Representing Missouri in Abortion Case?
Scott Stewart, the lawyer representing Mississippi, was at the center of a 2017 abortion controversy.
By @GiuliaHeyward
@nytimes nytimes.com/2021/12/01/us/…
“When a pregnant, undocumented 17-yr-old staying in a fed refugee shelter in TX sought an abortion in 2017, it was the job of Scott Stewart, then a @TheJusticeDept lawyer, to help defend the ultimatum issued by the Trump admin: go through w/the pregnancy — or leave the country.
Dec 1, 2021 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
Justices hear arguments over Mississippi abortion law challenging Roe v. Wade
MS atty urged #SCOTUS to overturn precedents establishing a constitutional right to abortion. washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/…
“Counsel, there is so much that is not in the Constitution,” #JusticeSotomayor said. “Including the fact that we have the last word, Marbury v. Madison. There is not anything in the Constitution that says that… the Supreme Court is the last word on what the Constitution means.”
Nov 30, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Active shooter, multiple victims reported at Michigan's Oxford High
“Election officials, the entire electoral system withstood unrelenting political attacks, physical threats, intimidation & pressure.
“They did so w/unyielding courage & faith in our democracy.
“With recount after recount…
“court case after court case, the 2020 election was the most scrutinized election ever in American history.
“Challenge after challenge brought to local, state & election officials, state legislatures, state & federal courts, even to the United States Supreme Court
I’d like Democrat Congress Representatives to stop using these as their main talking points. In fact very few people oppose ID requirements, if the types of ID allowed are expanded.
These bills target:
mail voting,
early voting,
voter registration efforts,
1/@BerniceKing the power of local officials to oversee elections,
the powers of poll watchers (increasing voter intimidation & harassment)
purge existing voters,
limit drop boxes,
limit the time a person can request an absentee ballot,
Russia’s most aggressive ransomware group disappeared. It’s unclear who made that happen.
by @sangernyt @nytimes nytimes.com/2021/07/13/us/…
“Just days after @POTUS Biden called Pres Putin… & demanded that he act to shut down ransomware grps… attacking American targets, the biggest of them has gone off-line.”
“The group, called REvil, short for ‘Ransomware evil,’ is believed responsible for the attack that brought