#Corpus

Supreme Court Bench headed by CJI NV Ramana will continue hearing today a matter pertaining to Kerala based Journalist #SiddiqueKappan, whose wife has sought immediate intervention to release Kappan from
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This is a Thread that attempts to list which of our constitutional rights have been suspended during the #CoronavirusOutbreak. Article IV. Sec. 2, Cl. 1 guarantees that states can't discriminate
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A bit of a meta-point about Korea watching - As we could see from S Korea's Assembly election, there is a sea change in the people who are forming the
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So I used to represent death row inmates in their last chances appeals, federal habeas corpus actions. Today marks the 4th anniversary of the night I witnessed the execution of
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I am fine with the DOJ intervening and cutting off funding for these jurisdictions with the highest rate of violent crime in the US according to FBI crime data.AlaskaTennessee ArkansasLouisianaSouth
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The (continued) exposure of systemic racism in MN and NY (& US) the past couple days reminds me of a handful of conversations I've had with local emergency managers on
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Today is #InternationalLegalHistoryDay and I will be tweeting some medieval legal #manuscripts … [thread] #LegalHistory #HistLaw #MedievalTwitter Let’s start with some common law: the opening of Magna Carta from a
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[Thread] 1/ Donald Trump has retweeted @HeshmatAlavi - an account believed to be operated by a number of people working for the MEK - Mojahedin-e-Khalq, a cultish opposition group -many
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In America, this column would be required to run with a disclosure that noted that the author’s wife has just been appointed as official spokesperson for the Prime Minister. Here?
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1/ New Q drop: 4352 and 4353Antifa being declared a Terrorist organization. This was warned of last July 2019 by Trump tweet.Q reminds us, giving Congressional sauce links. What does
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This is among the weirdest & scariest stuff I've read. A 3500-years-old exorcism ritual from Babylonia (from W Faber’s essay, How to Marry a Disease: Epidemics, Contagion, and a Magic
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Thread: MISLEADING INFORMATION - I was sent an Instagram post "exposing" Ruth Bader Ginsburg so took it upon myself to read the judgments in question myself and boyyyyyy This is
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[]Shias should fast on Ashura?There has been some talk about hadith existing in the Shia corpus that happen to mention fasting on Ashura as a virtuous obligation.There is also a
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A thread/reminder that a historical explanation of Jesus’s crucifixion (β€œhe was killed by Rome b/c they viewed him a messianic political revolutionary β€œ) doesn’t preclude a theological explanation (Jesus, God
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Something we discuss in my history classes is that we see a consistent pattern in US history of rights and liberties being furloughed during times of crisis. Here’s a brief
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Bullsh*t that happens when you criticize scientists.A thread.There is no system of oppression in the world today that functions w/out the complicity of scientists. Scientific institutions are a crucial part
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