Chris “Law Dork” Geidner
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It really is amazing that all of the networks just aired an hourlong show celebrating students graduating during a global pandemic and everyone thought it made complete sense not only for the current president not to be involved but for the former president to be the keynote.
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I was so much younger when I wrote this tweet.
Well ... we made it through the first day of October. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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BREAKING: Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson announces he has VETOED anti-trans bill HB 1570.
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You should consider taking dad next time?
Arabella & me at the Supreme Court today. I'm grateful for the opportunity to teach her about the judicial system in our country firsthand.
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Just in case you were wondering, a member of Congress cannot “formally request[]” that the 25th Amendment be invoked.
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Ten years ago tonight, I went to bed sober, having finally reached the realization—or more accurately, admitted the realization I’d long known—that drinking just wasn’t working for me any more. I did not know what would come next, so I took it one day at a time. For 10 years.
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NEW LAWSUIT: "Hamburger Mary’s in Orlando, famous for its burgers and drag shows, is suing the state of Florida and DeSantis in federal court, claiming the bill is a violation of their First Amendment rights."
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So, I know I’m not paying as close attention to everything as I normally do, but I have a few questions:
• Did anyone see Trump on Thursday?
• Did we figure out why Pence canceled Friday’s trip?
• Where’s Barr?
• Is Christie still in the hospital? What’s his status?
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"What do you want me to say about slavery?" should be the end of Nikki Haley's political career.
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BREAKING: Late Friday night, a federal judge declared Tennessee’s anti-drag Adult Entertainment Act to be unconstitutional following a two-day trial last month. More to come at Law Dork:
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This is the way Sean should be treated by every reporter, every day, forever.
BBC interviewer to Sean Spicer: "You have corrupted discourse for the entire world by going along with these lies"
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Trump is acting more quickly to stop TikTok than the coronavirus.
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BREAKING: Federal judge rules Florida bans on gender-affirming care for minors is likely unconstitutional, issues injunction halting enforcement of the bans against the plaintiffs who challenged the regulatory and statutory bans. More to come at Law Dork:
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Incredible stuff happening out in Montana, folks. Don’t let those Republicans in the Montana House confuse you.
yeah you could say missoula is pretty amped to have our representative, THE zooey zephyr, back home. silenced no more—shrouded in love from her hometown and her district
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Sometime in the next hour or so, 11 years ago tonight, I ordered a drink at Cobalt. It was a totally ordinary moment. I was blacked out, also ordinary, so I really have no recollection of it. I had no clue that I would choose for 4,019 days since then not to have another drink.
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Kennedy says ridiculous things all the time, but it’s really easy to imagine how truly horrible things can happen when you watch a United States senator go here just to show off to Trump how mean and nasty he can be to a woman with power who’s using it to hold Trump accountable.
Senator John Kennedy on Nancy Pelosi: I don’t mean any disrespect but it must suck to be that dumb
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Honestly, the past 70 minutes of Trump's tweets should be enough to end any presidency.
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They made DeVos education secretary on a 50-50 vote — after losing two Republicans — with Pence breaking the tie! In Trump’s first month in office!
Why is there this weird obsession with "bIPaRtiSanShiP" only when Democrats have power? I don't remember anybody grilling Republicans in early 2017 about why they weren't bending over backwards to work with Dems.
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Good for Trump there's no very clear and topical evidence of him using "hope" as a threat. Wait.
James Comey better hope that there are no "tapes" of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press!
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RIP, Keith Haring, who died 31 years ago today, at the age of 31. There are so many lifetimes that we lost — in art, in love, in life — to the early years of AIDS. I will forever be grateful, though, to Haring and others like him whose work lives on for all of us to this day.
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🚨 BREAKING: RODNEY REED'S EXECUTION IS STAYED. By order of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. Reed's "Brady, false testimony, and actual innocence claims" will be considered by the trial court in his case before any further action is taken.
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BREAKING: In a May 19th court filing, John Eastman’s lawyer claimed constitutional protection against disclosure of THIRTY emails relating to a group he spoke with TWICE about “current events.” His release of an email today shows the group was Frontliners, the Ginni Thomas group.
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Today marks three-quarters of a decade — 7.5 years — since I last had a drink. A reality that happens day by day, but, nonetheless, one that I never could have imagined ever being ~my~ reality.
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BREAKING: Federal judge rules Florida is barred from enforcing the state's new anti-drag law (SB 1438), granting a preliminary injunction in the case brought by Hamburger Mary's. More to come at Law Dork:
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Every person should read Justice Sotomayor's dissent tonight. It lays bare the extreme cruelty of the administration's killing spree — and the Supreme Court's role in allowing it.
Justice Sotomayor lays out the abhorrent reality of the past year, mincing no words and refusing to leave her thoughts in the form of a question: "This is not justice. ... I dissent."
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Two years later, the nation's first trans lawmaker becomes the nation's first trans lawmaker to be re-elected to office.
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Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, sworn in today, is the first out bi senator in US history, and only the second out LGBT member of the Senate, following Sen. Tammy Baldwin.
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JUST IN: House Judiciary Dems to send letter to WH counsel McGahn asking him to explain what he was doing this weekend regarding FBI & FISA.
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Alert: Obama may be reaching IDGAF phase.
Obama is wilding out, sharing an anecdote about how he and his friends smoked cigarettes while they were getting kicked out of Disneyland during a trip to California to see Kool and the Gang
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BREAKING: The Supreme Court rules that an employer who fires an individual merely for being gay or transgender violates Title VII.
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Hey you people scare-sharing Linda Sarsour's speech, read this transcription, which I just made because you all are trash misquoting her.
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BREAKING: Federal court rules against Florida's administrative and regulatory bans on Medicaid coverage for gender-affirming medical care for minors (puberty blockers and hormones) following a trial.
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Imagine being the Attorney General of the United States and making your staff go out and tell reporters that you couldn’t find anywhere other than the Trump hotel to hold your holiday party.
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The secrecy surrounding large portions of Brett Kavanaugh’s records by Presidents George W. Bush and Donald Trump, and Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Chuck Grassley’s outright support of it, is something that should be a much bigger deal.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is withholding more than 100,000 pages of Brett Kavanaugh’s records from the Bush White House on the basis of presidential privilege, according to letter obtained by
@AP
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Here’s the 18th paragraph of this story:
Walgreens will close five stores in San Francisco next month, citing what it described as a continuing problem of "organized" shoplifting in the city. One of the stores was targeted at least five times by the same man, the authorities said.
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That’s ... a piano.
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The very same morning Pence said the Trump campaign wasn't "in cahoots" with WikiLeaks, Don Jr. tweeted out a link provided to him by ... WikiLeaks.
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Lamar Alexander pulled a Susan Collins as Susan Collins pulled a Lisa Murkowski while Lisa Murkoski is pulling a Jeff Flake? Did I get that right?
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I love the idea that — at any time — Cher could be around the corner, ready to take your picture.
When we were coming out of movie I saw beautiful
Couple.He Was taking
Her pic….She had flowers
I said … can I take your
Pic….Had my mask on so they didn’t Know Who I was. MAYBE Just a crazy woman..
THAT ME
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Special counsel’s office spokesperson Peter Carr: “When we learned last week of allegations that women were offered money to make false claims about the Special Counsel, we immediately referred the matter to the FBI for investigation.” (confirming his comment, reported elsewhere)
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Every sentence I read of this story makes me madder and madder. 1. This included coloring. 2. THEY INCLUDED A $50 TIP IN THE $300. 3. They included a line from someone at the salon saying she was nice, but twisted into a negative. 4. The author’s a lawyer.
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Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) is up in the Garland hearing, and his first question is about DOJ protecting voting rights; his second question is about public defender funding; and his third is about civil rights pattern and practice investigations, referencing the South Fulton Jail.
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BREAKING: Feinstein statement details Benczkowski’s representation of Alfa Bank, and, wow.
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Any time a journalist tells you they "just report the facts" or "go where the story leads" them, ask them how they chose their story subject, ask them how they chose their sources, ask them how they chose which anecdotes to highlight, ask them what they cut.
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1. They’re not “instructions;” it’s a “certificate.”
2. As I can read because it is a bilingual certificate that includes English.
3. Do you need instructions for how to put on a mask in January of the year of our Lord two thousand and twenty-two?
Speaker Pelosi sent out N-95 masks to every House office. Unfortunately, I can’t read the instructions.
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BREAKING: US District Judge Reed O’Connor in Texas rules that requiring employers to provide coverage for PrEP drugs (preventing the transmission of HIV) violates the religious rights of employers under federal law (RFRA).
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This was my ninth sober Christmas, and while I still have much to work on to improve myself, it’s impossible to imagine the Christmases I have now existing as they do if I were still drinking.
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So, it’s really starting to look like the hope was that the circle of who tested positive stayed small, Trump’s condition didn’t worsen, and they could get away with putting out Hope’s positive test to set up a scenario where they could later announce Trump’s positive test.
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Someone trying to get in, or someone trying to get out?
There's been another fence-jumper at the White House, according to an officer near the gates
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This is the tweet that 2019 deserves.
Roger Stone is now seated at the defense table for a hearing on his Instagram post.
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*the most chef’s kiss that ever did chef’s kiss*
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I am literally stopped on the sidewalk. This is as bad as you think it is.
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“Believe me, I can see a dick.” -
@JKCorden
, responding to
@billmaher
, yet again, being a dick
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I think seeing Hunter on that stage tonight meant a lot to a lot of us.
If Hunter Biden ever worried that his struggle with addiction would derail his dad's career, I hope he goes to bed tonight knowing that in the end it did not.
I don't mean that as a political statement, just a hope from one recovering addict to another.
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The more we learn about this, the more it appears that Bill Barr executed a man without trial last week.
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A reminder that curfews, in practice, are used by law enforcement and prosecutors — and, ultimately, cities and states — to criminalize behavior that otherwise would be legal and, in fact, protected free speech and assembly.
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Midnight line for FIRE AND FURY at
@kramerbooks
in DC. Well done, Charles Harder and
@realDonaldTrump
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Adam Schiff Asking Carter Page Whether He's Invoking The Fifth Amendment Is Something Else.
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SCOOP: "Pregnant women in immigration detention under the Trump administration say they have been denied medical care, shackled around the stomach, and abused." from
@o_ema
and
@nidhiprakash
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BREAKING: After trial, federal judge declares Texas's anti-drag law, SB12, unconstitutional and issues a permanent injunction barring — through AG Paxton — all state officials from enforcing it. More to come at Law Dork:
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BREAKING: PA Attorney General: Trump told us "sometimes it's the reverse," when asked about anti-Semitic threats and attacks.
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Counterpoint: Andrew Yang was never a Democrat. He ran as a Democrat.
Andrew Yang no longer identifies as a Democrat and is planning to launch a third party next month, sources tell us
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Private prisons honoring the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.
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UPDATE: Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has been discharged from the hospital, per the Supreme Court. "She is doing well and plans to work from home today," the public information officer tells us.
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It was only 18 years ago today that the Supreme Court held that sodomy laws—laws effectively criminalizing queer people’s lives—were unconstitutional. In other words, if you turned 18 before today, same-sex sexual activity could be prosecuted in parts of the US during your life.
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BREAKING: Federal judge — appointed by Trump — rules that Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming medical care for minors is likely unconstitutional, issues statewide injunction, the second such ruling TODAY. More to come at Law Dork:
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Very interesting travel ban news today: A judge ordered the defense to turn over Giuliani's memo regarding how to make the Muslim ban legal.
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I’m still sober.
this year was rough - brag on yourself a bit :)! what did you accomplish this year?
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Lollllllllllll. Rick Santorum just feigned outrage at Kamala Harris only calling Trump “Donald Trump” and not “President Trump.” Like, Trump is the guy who literally creates offensive nicknames for officials for fun! Go home.
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It would have been literally impossible for the person on the right (me) to have imagined going 100 hours without drinking, let alone 100,000 hours. And yet, earlier today, that’s the marker I passed.
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🚨 Trump PA Case Dismissed: "this Court has been presented with strained legal arguments without merit and speculative accusations... this cannot justify the disenfranchisement of a single voter, let alone all the voters of its sixth most populated state."
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BREAKING: Federal judge blocks enforcement of Indiana’s ban on gender-affirming medical care, aside from the provision addressing gender confirmation surgery. The injunction includes the new law’s ban on “aiding and abetting.” More to come at Law Dork:
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Alito is done, meaning, “Alito is just beginning.” This was a hyper-political, partisan speech, and his message in sum was: “I’m free to say this now. We have the votes.”
Alito is done.
That was easily the most political speech I’ve ever seen delivered by a Supreme Court justice. Wow. Same-sex marriage, guns, abortion, contraception, persecution of the Federalist Society ... he really squeezed it all in there. Yikes.
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Big news out of the 11th Circuit this morning —>
BREAKING: An appeals court just ruled that Florida can’t require the payment of fines and fees to vote
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BREAKING: The company owned by a foreign country that is challenging a grand jury subpoena in federal court in DC, and lost its challenge at the DC Circuit, has asked the US Supreme Court to step in. The case is under seal, so we have no additional information at this time.
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BREAKING: Federal judge rules that the military must move forward with policy allowing transgender military recruits starting on Jan. 1, 2018.
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I cannot get over how, in 2021, police departments—which we pay for—still put out posts like this, where the actions of non-officers are active voice and the actions of officers—generally shooting at people—are not only passive but obscured to the point of non-recognition.
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The president has banned nearly a quarter of the people on the African continent from the US, but go off on Nancy Pelosi ripping up some sheets of paper.
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HUGE: "DeSantis has rendered 3.3 million Floridians without their elected choice of prosecutor. That means that more than 15% of the people of the state of Florida have had one of their elections nullified unilaterally by the governor."
New, at Law Dork:
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Depression sucks. Particularly so in the midst of being isolated during a global pandemic. Going t h r o u g h it this morning. But I’ll get there.
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Sotomayor: "History will not look kindly on the court's decision today, nor should it."
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The simplest rapid response I’ve seen in some time.
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THE ROBERTS LETTER WAS NOT SIGNED BY ALL NINE JUSTICES.
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Hutchinson says the bill was overbroad, restricted people’s decisions, and sent a message about Arkansas that he did not want to send. At the same time, he notes that the legislature can still make an override vote (by a simple majority).
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