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@Judicialnetwork
is launching a new ad campaign against Joe Biden’s radical judicial nominee Adeel Mangi.
Adeel Mangi is tied to groups that tried to defund the police and free convicted cop-killers from prison.
Tell Senate Democrats to vote NO anti-police Adeel Mangi.
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Doocy: "These activists posted a map with the home addresses of the Supreme Court justices. Is that the sort of thing this President wants?"
Psaki: "I think the President's view is that there is a lot of passion."
Disgusting that the White House is refusing to condemn this.
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Senator
@HawleyMO
: "Do you think it's wrong to discriminate on the basis of religious faith?"
Biden’s district judge nominee for D.C Loren AliKhan: "Absolutely."
Senator Hawley: "Then why did you argue that religious services and religious people pose a greater risk of…
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If you think Justice Clarence Thomas would ever bow to the left-wing mob targeting him, go back and watch this legendary clip of his 1991 confirmation hearing:
Senator Hatch: “What’s Clarence Thomas going to do?”
Justice Thomas: “I’d rather die than withdraw… not for the…
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Happy Birthday to Justice Thomas, an American hero and fearless defender of our Constitution!
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Justice Thomas to his critics in the media:
“I will absolutely leave the Court when I do my job as poorly as you do yours.”
John Oliver offers Justice Thomas millions to 'get the f--- off the Supreme Court'
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WATCH:
@SenJohnKennedy
: “You said, ‘assault weapons may be banned because they’re extraordinarily dangerous and are not appropriate for legitimate self-defense purposes.’ Tell me what you meant by assault weapons?”
Biden’s Seventh Circuit judge nominee Nancy Maldonado: “I’m not…
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Clarence Thomas is a descendant of West African slaves. He was born into poverty and grew up in the Jim Crow south.
Nevertheless, he rose to become one of the greatest Supreme Court justices in American history.
We should tell his incredible story in every classroom.
To celebrate Black History Month, watch the documentary below & read up on Justice Clarence Thomas, our greatest Justice & greatest living American. Start by watching Created Equal: Clarence Thomas in His Own Words & reading these 4 books (links below):👇
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🚨President Biden’s district judge nominee Sara Hill was unable to explain to
@SenJohnKennedy
the difference between a “stay order” and an “injunction.”
How can an individual who wants to be a federal judge possibly not know this?
Senator Durbin even congratulated Hill…
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The reported draft opinion is thoughtful, scholarly, and thorough. It does the work that the majority in Roe and Casey refused to do, looking to the Constitution itself to determine whether it includes a right to an abortion. The opinion concludes it does not. /1
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Justice Scalia would be disappointed that his successor has bungled textualism so badly today, for the sake of appealing to college campuses and editorial boards.
This was not judging, this was legislating—a brute force attack on our constitutional system. (1/x)
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The President of the United States is bragging about defying the Supreme Court after they ruled against his student loan handout plan.
This an affront to the rule of law and a brazen breach of constitutional constraints.
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Exactly thirty years ago today, Justice Thomas was confirmed to the Supreme Court.
And for thirty years, Justice Thomas has consistently shown fearlessness and foresight.
#CT30
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.
@SenBlumenthal
is wrong. The word "radical" does not appear in Judge Barrett's opinion in Kanter v. Barr.
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Final witness in alleged Ford/Kavanaugh incident weighs in for Kavanaugh. So every single one of Ford’s supposed witnesses — all of them, including her female friend/classmate — conclusively refute her account. It doesn’t add up.
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Ironically, because of offering me that deferral, Justice Thomas ended up with four male clerks the term I otherwise would have started. He was criticized for not having any women. Meanwhile he was doing the most pro-woman thing I could imagine. /6
#CTLive
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Justice Scalia’s speech about the Holocaust is important to watch today:
“The one message I want to convey today is that you will have missed the most frightening aspect of it all, if you do not appreciate that it happened in one of the most educated, most progressive, most…
The cheerleading of the murder of innocents from some quarters of the learned professions, and from higher education, reminded me of Scalia’s speech on the Holocaust.
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When I applied to clerk for Justice Thomas I was just finishing my appellate clerkship on the DC Circuit with Judge Sentelle. I was thrilled to get an interview, but nervous about broaching the fact that I was three months pregnant. /1
#CTLive
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Clarence Thomas summed it up best in his documentary, Created Equal:
"People should just tell the truth: 'This is the wrong black guy; he has to be destroyed.' Just say it. Then now we're at least honest with each other."
There's nothing the Left hates more than an independent…
Clarence Thomas Is Not a Black Hero—He's an Enemy of Black People
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Justice Sotomayor laments the loss of RBG, “the court’s only civil rights lawyer.”
She forgot Justice Thomas, who spent eight years heading the EEOC, the largest civil right organization in the country. /1
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Many people are buzzing about a "new allegation" about Kavanaugh. But this is even weaker than the others. The alleged victim HERSELF denies any knowledge of it. Has this smear campaign really gotten that ridiculous?
The book notes, quietly, that the woman Max Stier named as having been supposedly victimized by Kavanaugh and friends denies any memory of the alleged event. Seems, I don’t know, significant.
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Powerful words from Obama-appointed district judge Esther Salas on with
@DanaPerino
. Her only son was murdered at her home in 2020 by a gunman posing as a delivery man, intent on assassinating her.
"We no longer have our son. And why? Because I was doing my job."
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This is the blockbuster "new allegation" against Kavanaugh. Except it's not actually new. It was shopped to Senate Democrats at the time and they apparently found it impossible to nail down, so they ignored it - the same Senators who found the "rape boat" allegations plausible.
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Today, Chief Justice Roberts strikes again.
In a 5-4 opinion written by the Chief, the Court demonstrates that it is willing to change its standard of review of executive action when the president is named Trump. (1/x)
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Sen.
@MarshaBlackburn
is exactly right.
"I think we all know what this is about. [Senate Democrats] have been after Justice Thomas. We are fully aware of this! ... I think this whole charade is truly disgusting."
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Wow. I had high expectations and I was so impressed by how charming and lovely Amy Coney Barrett is in person. She knocked it out of the park!
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Congrats to Judge Kavanaugh and deep appreciation for Senators who supported him. Leader McConnell & Chairman Grassley showed outstanding leadership. Judge Kavanaugh has been tested by fire and proved himself to be everything we expected and more. He'll be another great justice.
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This is why leaks are dangerous.
This is why doxxing justices is a bad idea.
This is why justices' homes should be off limits.
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Without a doubt, Justice Ginsburg and Justice Sotomayor are the most political justices in recent history.
Who can forget Justice Ginsburg's comments during the presidential election campaign of 2016 about
@RealDonaldTrump
? (1/6)
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The Court's majority should be commended for not bowing to the incredible pressure, intimidation, and threats of violence that it has faced since the leak.
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Stays and injunctions come before district judges all of the time.
This is not a trick question.
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Justice Alito concludes his Notre Dame speech with an exhortation for judges and courts to ignore the media and just "do their jobs." Exactly right.
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@MZHemingway
What's most noteworthy about this Psaki statement is what the White House still WON'T say. They still refuse to condemn plans for protestors to descend upon the justices' private homes. For that reason the statement rings hollow.
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The recent attacks on Justice Thomas’s character are baseless smears that are part of a coordinated campaign to destroy the Supreme Court.
I am proud to join more than 100 of his former clerks in speaking to his unimpeachable integrity and unshakable independence.
America is…
Over 100 former clerks of Justice Thomas sign open letter defending his integrity, independence
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Are. You. Kidding. Me.
Ruth Sent Us is planning to protest at Justice Kavanaugh's home tonight, a day after his attempted murder.
How long will Merrick Garland let this go on?
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This leak is just the latest iteration of the Left's shameful campaign to intimidate and undermine the Court, and it should be seen for exactly what it is. /8
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Reporter: “Why won’t you subpoena Jeffrey Epstein’s flight logs?”
@SenatorDurbin
: “I don’t know anything about his flight logs.”
Reporter: “So why won’t you subpoena them if you can?”
@SenatorDurbin
: “It’s the first time anyone has raised it.”
Is Senator Durbin lying when he…
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Protestors breaking state law outside Senator Schumer’s home get arrested.
Protestors breaking federal law outside Supreme Court justices’ homes get protected.
Is this just because Schumer’s protesters were blocking traffic, or is it a double standard yet again on full display?
Dozens of protesters demanding US end Israel aid arrested outside Schumer’s NYC home
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Have no doubts about what happened today: This was the hijacking of textualism.
You can't redefine the meaning of words themselves and still be doing textualism. This is an ominous sign for anyone concerned about the future of representative democracy. (end)
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Watch Justice Barrett correct the record over criticisms of the Court for overturning precedent:
“The Roberts Court — including my time on it — is at a low when you look at historically how many precedents are overruled a term. We’re at about one and historically it’s about more…
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Merrick Garland apparently dissents from today's decision. Thankfully he does so from DOJ, and not the Supreme Court.
BREAKING: DOJ releases statement that they "respectfully disagree" with Supreme Court's ruling on New York gun law: "The Department of Justice remains committed to saving innocent lives by enforcing and defending federal firearms laws."
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Justice Clarence Thomas predicted this "high-tech lynching" over 30 years ago:
"And from my standpoint as a black American, as far as I'm concerned, it is a high-tech lynching for uppity blacks who in any way deign to think for themselves, to do for themselves, to have different…
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Today six judges acting as advocates opted to rewrite the statute themselves, short-circuiting the legislative process and in the process denying the people a decision that should be theirs to make on a major issue. (3/x)
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Justice Alito's opinion does not mince words about Roe and its progeny. He describes Roe as "an abuse of judicial authority" and as being "on a collision course with the Constitution from the day it was decided." /2
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This is an outstanding opinion, but it is also one that we should not have read tonight. The forces on the radical Left that seek to undermine the institution of the Court have no limit; they will stop at nothing to get what they demand. /7
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He said the whole purpose of the Court and the Constitution was to create a country that allowed its citizens to go about raising their families in peace and so it would be backwards for him to ask me to do anything for him that wasn’t also best fit for my family. /4
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He told me to go home and talk to my family and friends and decide which year would be best to clerk for my situation. I opted to wait a year after I normally would have started so that my daughter was 18 months to 2.5 years during my clerkship instead of an infant. /5
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Meanwhile...
It’s been 42 days since the draft Dobbs opinion leaked, and the Supreme Court leaker has still not been identified.
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29 years ago today, Clarence Thomas was nominated to the Supreme Court.
Justice Thomas began his life in abject poverty in Pin Point, Georgia. Decades later, he had a seat on our nation's highest court.
In his words, "Only in America would this have been possible."
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Justice Thomas getting the respect he deserves.
“His questions are clear, fair and focused on resolving the heart of the dispute before the court, not tangential issues."
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Huge standing ovation for Justice Kavanaugh at
#FedSoc2019
. It's been a big year - "I got a new job!"
👏👏👏
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Unhinged:
Democratic strategist James Carville claimed that Speaker Mike Johnson and “at least two Supreme Court justices” are Christian nationalists who represent a bigger threat to the United States than Al-Qaeda terrorists.
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WATCH:
Senator
@TedCruz
rips apart Senate Democrats for consistently serving as rubber stamps for some of the most unqualified and unfit federal judges in the history of our country.
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So honored to be at the White House to see my former boss Justice Thomas swear in Justice Amy Coney Barrett. What a great night!
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It is shocking that President Biden would refer to the Supreme Court as "destabilizing" on a world stage because he disagreed with an opinion it issued. /1
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If you think the relentless smear campaign from left-wing dark money groups is going to break Clarence Thomas, you don’t know Clarence Thomas.
The Left has tried to destroy him for more than 30 years, and he’s still standing.
This historic moment during his 1991 confirmation…
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And that *is* exactly the Court's job. Here the Court finally takes itself out of the business of legislating abortion - a task for which it it lacks both the authority and expertise. Instead, that job will rightly be returned to the people and their elected representatives. /6
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While Joe Biden is on his apology tour, I have some suggestions of where he could start: acknowledging his cooperation in smear campaigns against Clarence Thomas, Robert Bork, and Brett Kavanaugh.
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More Alito on Roe: "[W]ielding nothing but 'raw judicial power,' the Court usurped the power to address a question of profound moral and social importance that the Constitution unequivocally leaves for the people." /3
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🚨This a must watch:
Senator
@TedCruz
picked apart President Biden's unfit judicial nominees one by one and laid out how damaging their confirmations will be to our federal judiciary.
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32 years ago, Clarence Thomas overcame a "high-tech lynching" by Joe Biden to go on to become one of the staunchest defenders of constitutional originalism and greatest justices in the history of the Supreme Court.
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575 days later, and we still don’t know who leaked the draft Dobbs opinion that led to an assassination attempt on Justice Kavanaugh and targeted attacks on pregnancy centers and churches.
“A man pleaded guilty this week to the 2022 firebombing of a Wisconsin pro-life organization — an attack which occurred just days after someone leaked the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn the invented constitutional ‘right’ to abortion.”
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Brett Kavanaugh is a home run. Like Gorsuch, Kavanaugh is brilliant, fair and independent, committed to following the law and honoring the Constitution. I look forward to the confirmation of another great justice.
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Justice Thomas is one of the most brilliant individuals to ever sit on the Supreme Court.
But his qualifications and intelligence have always been maligned by the Left purely because of his skin color.
@jasonrileywsj
sets the record straight.👇🏻
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He told me that one of the perks of being a Supreme Court justice is that he could hire anyone he wanted for whatever year he wanted. /3
#CTLive
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While the question of whether to amend Title VII to add more categories may be a difficult one as a matter of policy, the question of the Court’s role on this issue was an easy one: Allow the people to decide the issue through their elected representatives. (2/x)
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Great to see the Court taking these cases and, to quote Justice Thomas, addressing the "insidious consequences" of "racial engineering."
BREAKING: The Supreme Court agrees to hear a pair of cases that challenge the race-based affirmative action policies for admission at Harvard University and the University of North Carolina. The cases likely will be argued next term.
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Would he not want to hire someone who was getting ready to have a baby? After getting advice from people who knew him I decided to just tell him in my interview (I wasn’t showing yet). His response was so illustrative of his character. /2
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The opinion's excellent discussion of the stare decisis factors notes that "some of our most important constitutional decisions have overruled prior precedent," including Brown v. Board, West Coast Hotel Co., and Barnette. /4
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With this draft opinion, the Court explicitly rejects attempts to game out the political ramifications of its decision and confines itself to doing its job,"which is to interpret the law, apply longstanding principles of stare decisis, and decide the case accordingly." /5
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During a panel, DC residents voiced their frustrations and demanded accountability from city leaders in addressing the violent crime epidemic that's plaguing our nation’s capital.
DC Attorney General Brian Schwalb’s response: “We cannot prosecute and arrest our way out of it.”
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Publisher's Weekly is the gold standard of bestseller lists because it's actually based on sales numbers. And WE'RE NUMBER ONE! 🥇
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This is a bad case of déjà vu from the Court's decision in the census case a year ago.
Chief Justice Roberts once again has failed to stand up for the institutional interests of the Court by allowing it to be weaponized for partisan ends. (4x)
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Because Democratic senators have no legitimate argument against the confirmation of Judge Barrett, they have made lame arguments attempting to delay the nomination process. /1
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Welker: “How disruptive was the [Dobbs] leak to the Court and to the relationships that you describe?”
Justice Breyer: “It was unfortunate.”
Welker: “Were you angry?”
Justice Breyer: “You try to avoid getting angry…I think it was unfortunate.”
Why would Justice Breyer be…
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President Trump promised to appoint justices in the mold of Scalia and Thomas. He has kept that promise and I look forward to supporting Judge Barrett's confirmation.
#ConfirmAmy
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@MZHemingway
's response to Christine Blasey Ford’s latest smears is exactly right:
"Nobody is buying this book because nobody bought her story. She doesn't know when or where the alleged event happens. Her named witnesses said it didn't happen and even her father supported…
'Bitter' Christine Blasey Ford describes chaotic experience in memoir about accusing Kavanaugh
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Of course, Justices Ginsburg and Breyer also opposed court packing, but that does't seem to matter to Elie.
In fact, it was Justice Breyer expressing concerns about court packing at Harvard Law School last spring that prompted the unseemly dark-money campaign to retire him.
Clarence Thomas went out to decry "cancel culture" and court packing, which is how you know those things are actually good.
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Justice Gorsuch: How come Chevron never benefits the little guy?
“The cases I saw routinely on the courts of appeals—and I think this is what niggles at so many of the lower court judges—are the immigrant, the veteran seeking his benefits, the social security disability…
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Justice Thomas isn’t going anywhere.
Calls for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to resign or be impeached have grown.
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30 YEARS AGO TODAY
Justice Thomas began his life in abject poverty in Pin Point, Georgia. Decades later, he had a seat on our nation's highest court.
In his words, "Only in America would this have been possible." 👏 🇺🇸👏
#CT30
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If Roe is overturned, the battle over abortion is going to be fought in each state and the American people will have the right to come up with these compromises.
This is for the people and legislatures—not the courts—to decide.
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.
@JohnKennedyLA
asks Biden nominee Jennifer Sung if she stands by the letter she signed stating that Brett Kavanaugh is morally bankrupt:
"How can a litigant possibly think that you're not going to act on personal beliefs if you were so intemperate to say something like that?"
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The nomination—and soon confirmation—of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court is a huge milestone for constitutionalism and the rule of law.
But if the Democrats win in November and succeed in packing the Supreme Court, it will be meaningless.
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Max Stier is not a victim. He is a partisan Democrat whose story isn’t even corroborated by the people allegedly involved. No one involved wants to talk about it or can even remember it. In lawyer talk, this is what we might call “unreliable” yet some are treating it as gospel.
@jackiekcalmes
@rtraister
Partisan attacks like this are why people feel they can’t afford to speak out. They are designed to intimidate witnesses and distract from the truth.
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🚨This helps explain why they’re targeting Justices Thomas and Alito:
“ProPublica has received more than $40 million from a group connected to liberal dark money network, Arabella Advisors.”
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.
@SenJohnKennedy
’s friendly advice to President Biden and Senate Democrats on judicial selection:
“Just because you’ve seen My Cousin Vinny doesn’t qualify you to be on the federal bench.”
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Another insightful Q from Justice Thomas in Morrissey-Berru:
“Don’t you think it’s a bit odd that things that would violate the Establishment Clause when done in a public school are not considered religious enough for Free Exercise protection when done in a parochial school?"
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🚨
Senator
@TedCruz
asked Biden district judge nominee Mustafa Taher Kasubhai about his past Marxist writings that discussed the need for a “creative struggle toward redefining property”:
“What the hell does that mean?”
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Senator Leahy criticizes DC Circuit nominee Naomi Rao for not having prior judicial experience for an appellate seat - which isn’t uncommon. But he supported Elena Kagan for the *Supreme Court* with no prior judicial experience. 🤔🤔🤔
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Reminder: Blocking the entrance or threatening physical force at a place of religious worship is a federal crime under FACE that - even for non-violent first offenses - that could result in up to six months in prison or a $10,000 fine. 18 USC 248
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🚨Justice Sotomayor explains why putting cameras in the Supreme Court would be a bad idea:
“I remember when I was being interviewed for my Supreme Court nomination that I met with many many Senators. And I asked them when things had changed in the sort of partisan nature of…
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Doxxing judges is extremely dangerous. Joe Biden should condemn in the strongest terms the efforts of left-wing dark money groups to publish and descend upon the justices' home addresses.
An Obama-appointed district judge knows the danger all too well:
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(Their description of Stier as a "respected thought leader" and BK classmate overlooks another time his paths crossed Kavanaugh's: he was a member of Bill Clinton's defense team back during the Lewinsky investigation.)
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Congratulations to Patrick Bumatay on his confirmation to the Ninth Circuit today. The son of Filipino immigrants who instilled in him a love for this country, Bumatay has dedicated his career to public service. (1/3)
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Justice Thomas administers the oath of office to Justice Barrett.
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I'm not aware of another day in Justice Thomas's 30 years on the bench when he asked more questions from the bench.
It's great to hear so much from him with this new format.
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“This is a political campaign designed to smear Justice Thomas. And the reason is simple — the Left despises Clarence Thomas. They do not despite him because he’s a conservative. The Left despises Clarence Thomas because he’s a conservative, African-American.” - Senator
@TedCruz
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