Melissa Murray (@ProfMMurray on Threads 🧵)
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OMG!!!
"The Trump Indictments" by me and
@AWeissmann_
is
#1
on the
@nytimes
Bestsellers List!!!!!
Thank you, thank you, thank you to the great folks
@wwnorton
and all of the readers who bought the book!!
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Justice Sotomayor, "WHEN DOES THE LIFE OF A WOMAN... PUTTING HER LIFE AT RISK... WHEN DOES THAT ENTER THE CALCULUS??"
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"And ... for my daughters... I admit that I did not always get the [work/motherhood] balance right... but I love you so much."
OMG. I feel this in my bones.
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Y'all. Justice Sotomayor can count votes. She knows where this is headed... either viability is gone or Roe is gone.
Her questions are for the public... to let us know that abortion isn't the end. It's just beginning of the unraveling of these other rights of intimate life.
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"MAY I FINISH MY INQUIRY?" --Justice Sotomayor giving zero effs.
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The Supremes won this oral argument.
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I'm going to need Justice Alito to stop joking about seeing "Black children in Ku Klux Klan costumes."
Seriously, what am I listening to?
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Narrator voice:
1. The King and Queen of England are divorcees
2. The House of Windsor was until WWI the House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha because they were German (before that it was the House of Hanover--also German)
3. QE2's husband, Philip, was born in Greece
4. Google is free
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I hope folks know where to place the blame for the failure of student loan forgiveness. Say what you will about Joe Biden, but he did what he promised. And it was absolutely undone by the Court that his predecessor built.
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My mom passed away 2 days ago. It is shattering to lose the person who was the absolute constant in my life. She was a remarkable woman who collected friends wherever she went and loved being of service to others. I will love and miss her forever.
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I'm old enough to remember when Gloria Reuben left ER, at the height of the show's popularity, to be a backup singer on Tina Turner's 24-7 tour and the entire industry was like, "yes,
#goals
."
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The
@nytimes
headline really buries the lede.
@jodikantor
&
@Jo_Becker
's reporting reveals a highly coordinated effort to influence SCOTUS justices. THAT is the story. Also, why is this breaking on SATURDAY morning,
@nytimes
?
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The impact of redistricting and gerrymandering on these House races is staggering... and a byproduct of SCOTUS decisions like Rucho v. Common Cause.
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The Daily Fail stays exhausting. She's not publicly funded, she makes her own money, and she can do and buy what she wants.
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On a cross-country flight and my (unmasked) seatmate asks to use my USB charger. I agree... if he'll wear a mask. He agrees! And apparently, free markets are the answer to everything. Am I a libertarian now??
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Justice Thomas saying the quiet part out loud... substantive due process rights originate in the discredited Lochner doctrine...
this won't stop at abortion. All of the rights linked to SDP are at risk with this Court.
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So, we're canceling democracy? Cool. Cool. Cool.
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Your weekly reminder that curbing abortion access was just the beginning.
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Maybe Kate's prolonged and worrisome convalescence *wasn't* the right time for (her uncle) Gary Goldsmith to go on "Celebrity Big Brother?"
There. I fixed it for you,
@CaitlinPacific
!
Maybe Kate's prolonged and worrisome convalescence *wasn't* the right time for Meghan Markle to launch "American Riviera Orchard?"
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Just read the warrant and the inventory list. That's a lot of miscellaneous secret/top secret documents.
And this is someone that almost half the country thinks should be our president.
The bar is so low, it's in hell.
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This is really interesting. For so long, Thomas, as the only Black person on the Court, has gotten to frame race issues for his colleagues with very little pushback.
With KBJ on the Court, there's a competing voice and perspective on race. And he has to respond to her views.
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I thought the upside of SCOTUS dismantling affirmative action was no longer having to see these posts.
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Y'all.
I spent this morning chatting with THE BEST CHRIS (
@ChrisEvans
) and
@MarkKassen
about the post-Dobbs reproductive rights and justice landscape.
Is this what it feels like to capture all of the infinity stones? Obvs, yes.
Our convo drops on Monday, Details below!
NEW: On Monday, August 1st at 12PM ET, NYU Law Professor
@profmmurray
joins ASP's
@ChrisEvans
and
@MarkKassen
for a Chat on abortion law and reproductive rights featuring questions from our viewers across the country.
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Justice Jackson subtweeting the Court's originalists with a meditation on the "history and traditions" of the Fourteenth Amendment's antislavery ethos. I wish she'd been on the bench for Dobbs.
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It's me. Hi. I'm the problem. It's me.
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The best part of this tweet is its complete disregard of facts. Conservative billionaire Richard Uihlein pumped floods of cash into Ohio to support Issue 1.
The projection is staggering.
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👋🏽👋🏽👋🏽 Hey,
@DailyMailUK
, if a gainfully employed woman eating a $20 kale salad makes you clutch your pearls in outrage, you're gonna die when I tell you a guy who owns a golden piano and an actual castle ordered a brand new coach for his first day running the family business.
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This will not be like the pre-Roe landscape. It will be worse. The only way to enforce these bans is to rely on a surveillance state. And we now have to technology to do just that. Buckle up, folx.
10 states where abortion is now illegal have sent Google more than 5,700 demands for location tracking data since 2018.
There's growing alarm about how police or prosecutors could use that data to target abortion providers or people seeking the procedure.
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TFW you leave the party right before someone calls the cops.
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Heads up: This is the strategy. They don't need to win Congress. They just need to win the presidency and then the new DOJ can prioritize the enforcement of the Comstock Act (a law that was enacted in 1873 and has been unenforced, tho still on the books, for much of our lives).
Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito are clearly eager to revive the Comstock Act as a nationwide ban on medication abortion—and maybe procedural abortion, too. That would subject abortion providers in all 50 states to prosecution and imprisonment. No congressional action needed.
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Good morning to women who tell men to "get your finger out of my face," and only women who tell men to "get your finger out of my face."
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The comments on this tweet are insane. The idea that increasing the number of Black doctors necessarily means compromising quality and foregoing excellence and expertise makes it so clear how deeply ingrained anti-blackness is.
Black people make up 13% of the U.S. population, but Black doctors are not equally represented.
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1) State charges so no chance of a federal pardon if convicted.
2) Charged under GA RICO statute, which carries a min 5 year sentence.
3) 18 others charged... which means, given the 5 year min for RICO, lots of opportunities for folks to flip and cooperate.
@jonfavs
Please help me understand why this is so big. The other three indictments have only fueled him. Will this change things?
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Just your weekly reminder that abortion is not the endgame.
@LiveFromAlaska1
Senate Candidate Kelly Tshibaka talks with supporters about using the USPS to prosecute citizens using the morning after bill and moves on to birth control.
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Such a pleasure to discuss the changing repro rights landscape with
@ChrisEvans
@MarkKassen
and these terrific students. Many kudos to the
@ASP
team who coordinated everything! Check it out!
WATCH NOW:
@NYULaw
Professor
@profmmurray
joins ASP to answer student questions about abortion, the overturning of Roe v. Wade, reproductive rights at the state level, and more. Watch:
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So now the question is, did Gary Goldsmith know his niece had cancer when he decided to be in Celebrity Big Brother in the middle of Kate’s health emergency?
Meghan has nothing to do with this. Leave her alone.
So now the question is, did Meghan Markle know her sister-in-law had cancer when she decided to launch her lifestyle brand in the middle of Kate’s health emergency? Lol.
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I'm not going to say I told you so but...
Melissa Murray, NYU Law Professor explains how women could lose constitutional rights if judge
#Kavanaugh
ends up on the Supreme Court. "We can make the protections of Roe utterly meaningless..."
#KavanaughHearings
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How it started. How it's going.
Many thanks to the folks
@TheBeatWithAri
and the incomparable
@AriMelber
for letting me take a spin in the big chair. So great to be in conversation w/
@CecileRichards
@jrpsaki
Howard Dean
@stevenmazie
@JoyceWhiteVance
& Sen. LaTonya Johnson!
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FYI coastal CA can be cold and damp in the summer b/c of the marine layer. It's not unusual for CA residents to wear heavy layers in the morning or evening.
But even without the temp change, if someone wants to wear clothes SHE bought, that's her business, not yours.
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Just your weekly reminder that this won't end with abortion.... protections for same-sex marriage, contraception, and individual autonomy that are not explicit in the Constitution are up for grabs, too.
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After this week, this was the tweet I needed.
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A KBJ appreciation thread.
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This really did not get the attention it deserved today.
Litigants allegedly holding prayer circles with SCOTUS justices who are reviewing their cases.
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Originalism.
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HAPPY SUSSEX INDEPENDENCE DAY TO ALL WHO CELEBRATE!
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Did not have Diddy as statesman on my OSCAR bingo card.
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Not gonna say I told you so, but....
Meghan Markle wins defamation lawsuit filed by half-sister via
@cbsmoneywatch
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Can we please discuss this response? It's giving drama club audition monologue. Just me?
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How it started. How it's going.
Moral of the story: Take a chance, take some risks, be true to yourself, and always say yes to paradise.
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Who among us hasn't managed to finally unload a property (that had been on the market for 2 years) just 9 days after becoming a SCOTUS justice?
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The state of confusion is the point. Chaos and confusion is as effective in limiting access as an absolute ban.
In Wisconsin, a woman bled for more than 10 days from an incomplete miscarriage after emergency room staff would not remove the fetal tissue out of fear that doing so might run afoul of state abortion restrictions.
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This you?
Announcers for this Eagles-49ers game just spotted the First Lady in a box and of course call her “Dr. Jill Biden.” Wonder if she realizes what a wannabe she looks like insisting on this fake title. Get a real MD or just work on your self-esteem.
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Alito: "What is required for a stable democratic society, which we all want?"
America: Court reform.
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Not to make everything about SCOTUS, but the GOP super-majority that voted 72-25 to expel
@brotherjones_
is a result of partisan gerrymandering and other anti-democracy efforts that SCOTUS has blessed.
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How it started. How it's going.
On a positive note, at least the BM has gotten over its antipathy toward denim.
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I am deceased.
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Narrator voice: Meghan and Harry have absolutely no idea who Sue is.
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Me watching Spare break every record.
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How it started. How it's going.
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Some initial thoughts on Allen v. Milligan.
Media is trumpeting this as a "victory" for the Voting Rights Act. And it is. And I don't want to be a turd in the punchbowl... but this is pretty weak sauce from this Court.
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Quick reflection on today's oral argument in Milligan. The outcome of this case seems pre-ordained given the Court's composition and prior stances on voting rights. But it was so heartening to see the Court's liberal minority showing up refusing to give in.
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🚨🚨This is happening tonight. Wish me luck as I do my best to live up to
@AriMelber
's example on
@TheBeatWithAri
on
@msnbc
! 🚨🚨
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Just finished teaching and learned that the Queen passed away peacefully this afternoon at Balmoral.
A 🧵
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Is this real? Are we actually living in a TL where the legislature of Virginia is proposing to reform education by teaching its students that the Lincoln-Douglas debates featured Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass?
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THIS!!!!! Today, SCOTUS agreed that the unlawful map it allowed to be used in the 2022 midterms was... unlawful.
This is a victory, but the damage has been done.
It also puts into rather harsh perspective the Court's unsigned, unexplained order in February 2022 that *allowed* Alabama to use its unlawful map for the 2022 midterms (like a similar order with respect to Louisiana).
Only Justice Kavanaugh changed sides from that 5-4 ruling...
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He looks innocent.
Biden's dog Commander bites Secret Service agent at the White House, causing injuries which were treated by medical personnel, spokesman says
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Posting without comment. HT someone on FB.
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She's been saying this for a long time. You're delusional if you think banning birth control is off the table.
Top Trump supporter Marsha Blackburn says Griswold v. Connecticut is “constitutionally unsound”
(Griswold v. Connecticut is the 1965 Supreme Court ruling that legalized birth control)
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@Jeopardy
, when are you going to do a
#JeopardyHSRT
for 90s Teen Tournament alums????? Let's do this!
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"He was there to pick up *my* kids when I couldn't."
Girl. Whut???
The bar is truly in hell.
We should vote for Ron because he **checks notes** picked up his own kids when his wife had cancer. 🥴
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Not sure who needs to hear this, but SCOTUS justices don't get to decide about court-packing. That's a policy issue for Congress.
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When are folks going to understand that I am not the one and that I have time today?
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"Strong Families Make Strong Nations." "Reclaim America."
If you don't see the connection between the assault on reproductive rights and ethno-nationalism, you're not paying attention.
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TFW you're hitting all the right notes.
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To all the naysayers (that's the G-rated term) who insisted that we were hysterical ladies and no one on SCOTUS was interested in revisiting same-sex marriage and contraception ... behold Justice Clarence Thomas concurring in the majority opinion.
Laying out the next 10 years.
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Quick thoughts on Trump v. Anderson.
1) This could have been a one-pager....
2) But 5 Justices wanted to go further to answer questions that weren't on the table
3) Something that Sotomayor, Kagan, and Jackson called them on
4) The SS, EK, KBJ dissent is dripping in snark. 🔥
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Republicans refusing to stand up and applaud for IVF and families? And refusing to stand up for Kate Cox, who had to leave TX to get an abortion in order to deal with a miscarriage and protect her future fertility?
I'm just taking notes here.
We all are.
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The part of Thomas's opinion that is directed at KBJ is, frankly, unhinged. Leaving aside the utter weirdness of talking to your colleague like you're her elderly uncle who's done and seen more. . . the absolute disregard for facts and context is breathtaking. Emmett Till much?
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Gonna go out on a limb here and say that your "economy" problem may actually be a "single malt scotch" problem.
This meal just cost me $78 at Newark Airport. This is why Americans think the economy is terrible.
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Nicole Kidman reacting to Will Smith punching Chris Rock is more Lucy than Being the Ricardos.
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TFW you wake up and casually break the internet.
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In what world is the guy who appointed three SCOTUS justices who voted to overrule Roe and Casey a "moderate"?
Do better,
@NYMag
.
What Trump’s moderate abortion rhetoric says about the presidential race.
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If only the right to eat at Morton's was explicit in the text of the Constitution and deeply rooted in the history and traditions of this country.🧐
NEW: Justice Brett Kavanaugh had to exit through the rear of Morton's on Wednesday night after DC protestors showed up out front. A Morton's rep told me: "Politics … should not trample the freedom at play of the right to congregate and eat dinner."
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I am no longer running a struggly Zoom school, rationing toilet paper, and sterilizing my groceries.
Seriously, how did you forget a global pandemic in which over a million Americans died?
Stefanik: Are you better off today than you were four years ago? The answer is a resounding no
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It takes real cheek to write
@WSJ
op-eds criticizing
@ProPublica
's reporting on SCOTUS ethics issues when you haven't yet filed your financial disclosure forms....
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2020 was the best!!!! Homeschooling my kids whilst trying to work. Washing my packages and groceries because we weren't clear about how COVID was spread. Not seeing my elderly mom as her health declined because we were worried about infecting her. Good times. 🙃
Trump: Think of it, two years ago everything was so good in our country
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What a gracious answer. Hats off to Professor Omarova for standing her ground on this.
Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA): “I don’t know whether to call you professor or comrade.”
Someone off-camera: “Oh my goodness.”
Dr. Saule Omarova, Biden’s comptroller currency pick: “I’m not a communist. I do not subscribe to that ideology. I could not choose where I was born.”
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Guess who's teaching Schechter Poultry and the non-delegation doctrine today??? Con law... but make it fashion.
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How it started. How it's going. SCOTUS edition.
🎉🎁🎈🥳🎂HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THIS FIERCE QUEEN!👸👑👸👑👸👑
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Just little ol' me filling for the great
@AriMelber
on
@TheBeatWithAri
today! Big shoes to fill on a big news day! Tune in on
@MSNBC
!
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