@greggnunziata How did you feel about dropping the necessary number of votes from 60 to 50?
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Gosh, I can't believe you need to hear this.
PARTISAN FIGHTS OVER FILLING A SCOTUS VACANCY ARE NOT COURT PACKING.
Sheesh.
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@greggnunziata Obama picked Garland in part because he was the example cited by Republicans of the kind of Dem-nominated judge they’d still be willing to support for scotus.
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OK, a lot of, "but Garland" in my replies.
I was a senior Senate staffer at that time and opposed moving on Garland. I argued that we should be clear that we weren't moving on him on the merits and not make a fake argument that precedent controlled. I still think I was right on that.
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@greggnunziata You did destroy the court with Garland and then ACB. You don’t see it that way, but to half the country that is exactly what happened. The court has been stripped of its legitimacy. Adding four justices is the same hardball that Rs have already played with scotus.
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Think about what Roe meant to conservatives.
The Court legalized abortion on demand. Invalidating state laws. Without law, based on penumbras.
Enabling the slaughter of millions of innocents.
A massive illegal power grab to do great harm.
We worked to change, not destroy, the Court.
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@greggnunziata And a new opening every 2 years would mean each confirmation fight isn’t an existential crisis. It would also make the court more responsive to major long term shifts in public sentiment — which is not a bad thing for our system of government.
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@greggnunziata You don’t think 18-year terms with a new seat opening up every 2 years makes more sense? The fate of the court shouldn’t hinge on someone’s health, and nobody should serve 30, 40, 50 years. Serving for life didn’t equal such a long tenure when the Constitution was written.
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They serve for life, but the number of justices is not set. Changing the number of justices would be legal and constitutional, but if done to punish the Court and change its rulings, deeply corrosive to the constitutional order.
John Thorsson@thorsson_john
@greggnunziata Where in the constitution does it set the amount of justices or how long they can serve?
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@Kaisa25Gaming @thorsson_john @greggnunziata What personal ambition? Where is there to go after the court? If they want to run for president or whatever they are welcome to do so now. They can always quit the court. That wasn’t unheard of in the 19th century.
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@thorsson_john @greggnunziata Isolates them from partisan factors, forces people who truly are best for the job, helps its independence and not to worry about personal ambition
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@greggnunziata Between Garland and ACB, that’s two instances where a norm was shredded. Two scotus seats stolen as far as Dems are concerned. So you’re right this is now a partisan rock fight. Dems will add seats to the court if they get the chance, and they’re justified in doing so.
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@greggnunziata You were opposed to moving him on the merits? You don’t think he was qualified?
This whole “they’d have done it too” line is exhausting. Garland deserved a hearing and a vote. And you haven’t addressed ACB being rammed through when folks were already casting ballots.
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@greggnunziata That ship sailed when McConnell blocked Garland for a year and then jammed ACB onto the court when voters were in the middle of voting Trump out of office.
18-year terms make sense. Justices live longer now. A new one every 2 years will make confirmations less contentious.
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This is a naked threat to the rule of law and our Constitutional order. Shameful.
Some Democrats do not really oppose Trump's demagoguery and assault on the rule of law; they just don't like that it's right-coded.
This moment calls for better leadership.
Rep. Ro Khanna@RepRoKhanna
The Supreme Court has engaged in an ugly recidivism that has marked the fastest rollback of Black political rights since Reconstruction. 18 year terms limits on Justices now. Expand the court from 9 to 13 Justices now.
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Rep. Frederica Wilson D-FL missed all 10 votes on Wednesday in the House. Wilson has now missed 43 straight votes - she last voted on April 17.
Wilson's X account this week sent out photos of a Service Academy day - but pictures from the same event were posted last October
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@kennerly @ScarboroughNow @mikebarnicle @NormOrnstein I love how he has his pipe with him. I wonder how many he traveled with on a big trip like that. Maybe it was just the one…?
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Pres and Mrs Ford, Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping in Peking, 1975. Ford didn't pack Air Force 1 with billionaires, took China experts. The translator was inspiration for Garry Trudeau’s “Honey Huan” in Doonesbury, that was rich enough! @ScarboroughNow @mikebarnicle @NormOrnstein
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Off to Buckingham Palace to be the “hostage” ensuring HM The King’s safe return when he opens Parliament - a tradition dating back to Charles I. Not sure I’m looking forward to it, but glad to play my part!
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@jpodhoretz I hate the “it’s not who I am” line. It’s exactly who he is. When you drink you lose your social filter and the truth comes out.
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@TastyBrew1776 @jchristenson_ @lawler4ny @reesejgorman People drop their inhibitions when they drink too much. They lose their filter and say what they actually think.
Those “things” you said represent exactly who you are. You’re an anti-Semite.
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Last night, I had too much to drink and said some things that don’t represent who I really am. I’m sorry and today I am seeking help for my drinking problem. @jchristenson_ @lawler4ny @reesejgorman
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@DaniellaMicaela @stephen_neukam @avanidkalra Ferguson is only budging now because he’s going to lose his primary if he doesn’t.
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NEWS with @stephen_neukam @avanidkalra:
Top Maryland Democrats this week restarted talks about possibly redrawing the state’s congressional map after recent court rulings have given Republicans an edge on redistricting in Southern states.
notus.org/house/maryland…
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It looks like Streeting's meeting with the PM went as well as Margaret Thatcher's visit to Ted Heath's house after the Tory leadership contest in 1975.
After 5 minutes, in which Heath refused to give her any advice or join the Shadow Cabinet, Thatcher spent 10 minutes ... (1/2)
Politics UK@PolitlcsUK
🚨 WATCH: Wes Streeting leaves No 10 after just 16 minutes
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@MetsFanInTexas @ECaliberSeven Sherrill just won by 14 points. It’s the first time in generations that the same party has won the governorship 3 times in a row. Rs have zero change of winning a Senate seat there.
It’s not trending right by a long shot.
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@ECaliberSeven Can’t eliminate another district without backfiring. There’s no way around the fact that New Jersey is a right trending state.
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BREAKING: in the opening remarks of the NJ-07 Dem debate, NJ Senate President Nick Scutari says in light of SCOTUS greenlighting GOP gerrymandering of nonwhite Dem seats, NJ is strongly considering redrawing its own congressional districts mid-decade to counter them.
New Jersey Globe@TheNJGlobe
NJ-7 Congressional Debate x.com/i/broadcasts/1…
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@greggnunziata A) Rs are packing state supreme courts.
B) It was long understood that keeping a scotus seat open for nearly a year before a prez election and then filling another seat days before the next one was a major norm violation.
@greggnunziata I’m not sure you get how angry Ds are.
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Is was long properly understood in America that Court packing amounts to a knife to the heart of of the Constitutional order and the rule of law. If the next Democratic White House does this, it will accelerate, not reverse, the damage Trump has done to our democracy.
Ro Khanna@RoKhanna
The next Democratic White House does not need a court reform commission like some college seminar. We need action. We need term limits for Justices. We need to expand this morally bankrupt Court from 9 to 13.
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The federal gasoline tax was introduced to build the interstate highway system
That system is now built
We should now repeal the federal gasoline tax and let each state maintain its portion of the interstate highway system—with its own revenue—as was the plan from the beginning
Josh Hawley@HawleyMO
I’m introducing legislation today to suspend the gas tax
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@RonBrownstein Here's the challenge for Democrats: as @RonBrownstein notes, they're skeptical of D's.
In @LatestCNNpoll: the GOP still has a sizable lead (45%-26%) on the economy among white non-college voters. Sizable minority - 28% - says 'neither'.
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We've now passed half a dozen national polls w/Trump's approval among Whites w/out a four year college degree falling to about 50-50. He won 2/3 of those voters in each of his three races . They're still mostly skeptical of Ds but Trump has given Dems their best opening in years
.@GregTSargent
Useful, informative piece by @RonBrownstein: Of all the GOP-held House districts Dems are targeting, around two dozen are heavy on working class whites. Trump's failures have created a great opportunity to win back those voters: bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…
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