#Bork

Ben Alpers 🗽

Ben_Alpers

I find this Jill Lepore op ed extremely frustrating. 1/https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/truth-reconciliation-tribunal-trump-historians/2020/10/16/84026810-0e88-11eb-b1e8-16b59b92b36d_story.html To begin with, though Lepore treats them

LadyMisc

LadyMiscellany

@realDonaldTrump—I think you have bad intel. @DefenseIntel @NIH @CBS_Herridge #coronavirus #redherring #IG #MeToo Got sick after frequent travel to NYC & Bay Area 2015-16. Then sexually assaulted in Bay Area.

Catherine Herridge

CBS_Herridge

#Ginsburg NOW: Letter to senate judiciary democrats from chairman @LindseyGrahamSC “..after the treatment of Justice Kavanaugh I now have a different view of the judicial-confirmation process. Compare the treatment of

Mike Sacks

MikeSacksEsq

Excellent thread on Biden’s SCOTUS confirmation voting record. Also worth noting that he was key player in the Bork borking and—as McConnell reminded us all during the Garland blockade—proposed blocking

Pejman Yousefzadeh: Insulin User Extraordinaire

Yousefzadeh

When I was a wee little Pejboy, back in 1987, the Senate Judiciary Committee, under the chairmanship of Senator Joe Biden, rejected the nomination of Robert Bork to the United

tedfrank 💉

tedfrank

This great @WSJopinion editorial on norm-breaking understates what Democrats did and how they rebuffed Republican attempts to de escalate. Democrats held up a bunch of intermediate appellate nominations in *August

Matt Stoller

matthewstoller

1. A quick thread on D.C. corruption and coronavirus. A few weeks ago there was a story about a private equity goon named Joel Freedman, who shut down a hospital

Alexandra Erin

AlexandraErin

The right wing myth machine has people as high as the US Senate claiming that the pushback against Kavanaugh was about holding the seat open, somehow, until after an election

Cory Doctorow

doctorow

40 years ago, a fabulist named Robert Bork dreamed up an imaginary history of US antitrust law in order to justify dismantling it. 1/ This Nixon co-conspirator - beloved of

Bill Scher

billscher

If McConnell & the GOP simply held hearings for Garland then rejected him on an up-or-down vote, they wouldn't be subject to hypocrisy charges now. Why did they bother creating

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winbfs

thread of things that bright have done that shouldn’t be real but are starting off this thread with bright saying “mai tueng hai bork ARRIVE” bright speaking in korean bright

Tomb Hellton

TVHilton

Setting aside the whole question of accountability, this piece has some horrible both-sides stuff. For example: "After Watergate, the parties pursued what...has [been] called “politics by other means” — the

Oliver Willis

owillis

im an optimist despite everything so maybe now democrats will *finally* learn "but the hypocrisy" is a completely impotent political weapon. maybe. probably not. but anyhow, its totally useless and

Jean-David de Crespigny ☦

ModrnFederalist

This, from @DavidAFrench, is quite possibly one of the most ridiculous things I have ever heard.https://time.com/5891217/ginsburg-scotus-raw-power-principles/?amp=true&__twitter_impression=true The Democrats were already threatening to

Robert P. George

McCormickProf

1/ On January 22, 1973, the Supreme Court of the United States, in a decision lacking any warrant in the text, logic, structure, or original understanding of the Constitution, struck

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

2x HUGE—Joint pledge by pharma vaccine makers that they will not release any #COVID19 vaccines that do not follow rigorous efficacy & safety standards.Senior FDA scientists also pledge not to