#SCOTUS

On my last day at @FiveThirtyEight here are some of the projects I'm most proud to have worked on:This interactive that lets you see how well-calibrated our forecasts have
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THREAD: As Trump announces Amy Coney Barrett, read this March 31, 2016 speech Hillary Clinton gave that the national media mostly ignored:"In a single term, the Supreme Court could demolish
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Feeling another thread on conservative evangelical inside baseball Last week, I offered up a few thoughts on John Piper's article calling for evangelicals to consider the effect of toxic character,
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Why JUDGES should support the elimination of qualified immunity: Because when YOU create a Frankenstein’s monster of injustice that undermines people’s confidence in govt and infantilizes cops, you should fix
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A thread on @RevKevDeYoung's latest, and the outrage (?) many are feeling. Background: My wife and I lost our first child in the womb this year. Fertility has not come
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Because the courts offer the most eligible path to outlawing abortion, and because it takes years for cases to make their way to the Supreme Court, it’s plausible to suppose
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Lawyer Twitter—it's time for us again to #AllRise.Do you want to stop Amy Coney Barrett's nomination to fill RBG's seat on SCOTUS? #L4GG will help, but we need your help
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America’s a rolling disaster b/c White supremacists are in power. Stop omitting that detail from your hot takes. The GOP isn’t just usurping power for power’s sake, they’re doing it
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Rs may have stolen 4 SCOTUS seats: *Kerry’s own campaign suspected the 04 election was hacked (Justices Roberts & Alito)* We never found out if hackers changed vote tallies or
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the american state commands NO legitimacy as a “democracy.” it is a settler-colonial regime founded on the blood+labor of indigenous ppl & MY ppl, as well as women broadly speaking.
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1) CAN THE US MILITARY LEGALLY SEIZE CONTROL OF GOOGLE, TWITTER & FACEBOOK?This thread theorizes that the US MIL can legally seize control of the Big 3 Internet Companies if
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The American Psychiatric Association has more raw, unchecked power than any organization on earth, second only to SCOTUSThey write the Diagnostic & Statistical Manual, literally the yardstick against which human
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Donald Trump and Melania Trump have now tested positive for coronavirus, in wake of Hope Hicks' diagnosis. I hope they will all recover soon, that our country will be okay,
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/ If the nov 3 election breaks down into uncountable chaos? There is a line of succession under the 25th amend. Sen Grassley could well become POTUS on January 21,
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During the Kavanaugh confirmaion I dropped over 500,000 docs that showed he should not have been confirmed for SCOTUS, including his participation in knowingly using hacked information from Judiciary Committee
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I know the internet feels indispensable at this point, but I've been having this ongoing thought experiment where someone showed me all of 2020 (so far) back in... let's say
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