McKenzie Edwards
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Alumna @UTAustin, @NorthwesternLaw, #txlege, & SCOTX. Capital defense attorney, AFPD. Support your local Buc-ee's and Taylor Swift.
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Shane Gillis nails it: immigration is serious policy, not content. If you have to make deportations into jokes and TikToks, you’re admitting you can’t defend what you’re doing on the merits. Serious governments don’t need punchlines.
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I'm going to try, one more time, to explain something: Due process isn't about protecting the offender. It's about protecting the innocent from false allegations. EXAMPLE: If there isn't due process for people who are accused of being here illegally, then the government can
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Every member of my family has a PhD in economics. We have a quaint, gift-giving tradition where we all sit in a circle around the Christmas tree. We each take out a crisp 100 dollar bill and gift it to the person sitting to our right.
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Twas the night before Christmas When all through the house The air conditioner was running Because you live in the south
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JUST IN: A federal judge ordered Texas to pay $1.2 million in atty’s fees the plaintiffs in a successful challenge to Texas’ HB 900/ the READER Act. #txlege Background: https://t.co/7FXDSKx8Md
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This story is incredible. Please watch.
Charlie Hicks ate his lunch and dinner at the Shrimp Basket in Pensacola, Florida, every day for 10 years. When he suddenly stopped showing up, the chef went looking for him – ultimately saving his life. @SteveHartmanCBS is On the Road.
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Think I'd fail to not lose my shit if a prosecutor said this in closing
On Tuesday I presented oral argument in the 14th Court of Appeals of Texas in Houston. #appellatetwitter The issue is whether a trial judge in a criminal case may tell the jury that "beyond a reasonable doubt" can be "60 percent." I argued that the answer is "no."
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Even the most raw recruit knows this would be a grave OPSEC violation. The fact that a senior leader (SECDEF!) would do this is unthinkable. He has no business sitting in his chair, and a responsible Congress would tell Trump to fire Hegseth, or they'll impeach him.
This report is now public. Here's one passage: "The Secretary sent nonpublic DoD information identifying the quantity and strike times of manned U.S. aircraft over hostile territory over an unapproved, unsecure network approximately 2 to 4 hours before the execution of those
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The last time the Aggies beat the Longhorns in football, this is what the Austin skyline looked like
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At 51-ish minutes they do this again, using it to buffer their claim that the Holocaust is a new religion, because it needed fire, smoke, ash, and burnt offerings. But it is PATENTLY RIDICULOUS because the whole reason why Jews began saying Shoah — catastrophe — instead of
I have thoughts. It's hard to know where to begin with the historic and factual ignorance of this nonsense. One example... a few minutes in, while defining the Holocaust, one of the hosts says that "Shoah... has the symbolism of burnt offering." This is simply wrong. The whole
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I've had a missile blow up next to my airplane, been shot at dozens of times by anti-aircraft fire, and launched into orbit — all for my country. I never thought I'd see a President call for my execution. Trump doesn’t understand the Constitution, and we're all less safe for it.
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An FBI employee is suing Kash Patel after being fired for displaying a pride flag at his workstation. Patel's letter terminating him said he "exercised poor judgment with an inappropriate display of political signage." The flag was a gift from the FBI in recognition of his
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JUST IN: A wild and extraordinary dissent from Judge Jerry Smith dissenting from the order that invalidated Texas’ map yesterday. Not sure I’ve ever seen one like it. https://t.co/tlAk83Be8h
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This is getting ugly fast. 🧵
The D.C. Circuit has cleared Judge Boasberg to proceed with his stalled contempt proceeding against DOJ. And the counterattack by MAGA DOJ is already underway. https://t.co/lScxYcONq3
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Right after Tremane Wood's death sentence was commuted, he was found unresponsive in his cell, due to "dehydration and stress." Great story from @apseanmurphy: https://t.co/rQeFlAiomm
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An Oklahoma inmate whose life was spared by the governor just moments before he was to receive a lethal injection was later found unresponsive inside his cell.
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More than 252 Venezuelans expelled to El Salvador under Trump’s mass deportation policy suffered systematic and prolonged torture and abuse, including sexual assault, during their detention, according to a Human Rights Watch report published on Wednesday.
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Human rights groups accuse Trump officials of complicity and draw comparison with scandal at Abu Ghraib prison
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The officer Sandwich Guy is charged with assaulting testifies that he could feel the impact of the sandwich through his ballistic vest, and it “exploded all over my uniform.” He says he could “smell the onions and the mustard.”
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BREAKING: Austin police and other authorities are responding to a shooting at the Austin public library downtown, and there are early reports of one person shot. Authorities are working now to clear the building.
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