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Joyce Alene

6 years

The first time President Obama met with his US Attorneys, he told us, “I appointed you but you don’t serve me. You serve the American people. And I expect you to act with independence & integrity.” None of us ever forgot that.

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Joyce Alene

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2 years

Abortion, which is lifesaving in cases of miscarriage, ectopic pregnancy, etc, will now be illegal in many states & even criminal in some & women will die as a result of this decision. So don't tell me you're pro-life.

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Joyce Alene

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3 years

Secretary Chao leaving now just means she's ducking the 25th amendment vote

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Joyce Alene

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6 years

Brett Kavanaugh cutting off his wife Ashley so she couldn’t answer a question put to her about whether there should be an FBI investigation was everything I needed to know about his attitude towards women.

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Joyce Alene

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3 years

Can't Mitch McConnell just pretend impeachment is a federal judge he wants to confirm?

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Joyce Alene

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4 years

Ignore Kanye

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Joyce Alene

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4 years

I'm only 2 1/2 paragraphs in to Trump's letter and it's clear to me that our President is unwell, unfit and very uninformed about our government & our legal system. And that fills me with a profound sadness that we're at this point. It's time to fix this. Past time.

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Joyce Alene

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2 years

A party that takes away abortion rights but refuses to provide support for pregnant women who need help with medical care including birth expenses, housing, food, child care & schooling, employment, etc, is most definitely not pro-life.

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Joyce Alene

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3 years

Imagine going down in history as the president who openly considered whether he needed to pardon himself and his kids before leaving office to avoid going to prison.

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Joyce Alene

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2 years

I may not agree with Liz Cheney on policy issues, but she is one brave woman.

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Joyce Alene

@JoyceWhiteVance

2 years

It's very disturbing that a party that is willing to let women suffer & die to ensure fetuses are carried to term won't protect actual living children by restricting gun ownership in sensible ways.

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Joyce Alene

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4 years

As people obsess over Trump's oxygen levels & release date, don't forget he owes $420 million to unknown entities that will come due while he's in office if reelected, continues to flirt with white supremacist allies & has permitted 200,000 Americans to die on his watch.

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Joyce Alene

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4 years

Where are Melania, Ivanka, Jared, Bill Barr & whoever else I’m missing because they’ve been out of sight since the Rose Garden event?

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Joyce Alene

@JoyceWhiteVance

4 years

I’m on an airplane that’s boarding. A woman walking past me leaned down & quietly said thank you & smiled. I can’t tell you all how much the many kindnesses like that these past few years mean to me. It’s an honor to be involved & I appreciate all of you.

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Joyce Alene

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4 years

Every time I see stories like this I’m reminded that I shut down my tiny Etsy business selling hand-dyed yarn while I was US Atty so there wouldn’t be even the appearance of impropriety.

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Ivanka Trump Earned $4 Million From Family’s Hotel While Employed By White House

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Joyce Alene

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1 year

Control of the Senate means a chance to rebuild the federal judiciary, especially SCOTUS.

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Joyce Alene

@JoyceWhiteVance

4 years

After watching the election in Georgia today it’s clear the GOP wants to pick their voters instead of letting the voters pick their leaders.

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Joyce Alene

@JoyceWhiteVance

4 years

I never thought I’d live in a country where I’d have to seriously worry about the President pervasively cheating to steal an election or refusing to participate in a smooth transition of power if he lost.

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Joyce Alene

@JoyceWhiteVance

4 years

If you're the person Trump paid to take the SAT for him, I know a lot of lawyers who'd be willing to represent you pro bono if there's a non-disclosure agreement or anything like that that keeps you from coming forward.

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Joyce Alene

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4 years

Trump is arguing Hunter Biden’s Burisma work warranted a criminal investigation. Which means all the deals, trademarks & loans Ivanka, the Kushners, Don jr & Eric have received during his presidency should get the same.

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Joyce Alene

@JoyceWhiteVance

2 years

Did you ever have to take the 5th? Nope? Me neither.

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Joyce Alene

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5 years

No one prevents a witness who can exonerate them from testifying.

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Joyce Alene

@JoyceWhiteVance

4 years

I don't want to have to read Michael Cohen's sad, tawdry book that details how low our country has been taken by Donald Trump, but I do want @Maddow to read the whole book to me.

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Joyce Alene

@JoyceWhiteVance

10 months

Saw this in another Tweet. Harsh, but fair.

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Joyce Alene

@JoyceWhiteVance

3 years

Trying to figure out how Black people singing to protest the Senate’s failure to pass voting rights laws got arrested yesterday while Jan 6 insurrectionists walked freely out of the building after they violently overran it.

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Joyce Alene

@JoyceWhiteVance

4 years

I have a question for Postmaster General Louis DeJoy: How does removing high speed sorters from Post Offices improve mail service?

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Joyce Alene

@JoyceWhiteVance

3 years

If we want to reopen K-12, shouldn’t teachers and staff be a top priority for vaccination? Am I missing something?

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Joyce Alene

@JoyceWhiteVance

5 years

With all due respect, if you’re a Democrat & you can win a Senate seat that would otherwise go to the GOP, that should be your race.

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Joyce Alene

@JoyceWhiteVance

5 years

Hillary Clinton's understanding of foreign affairs is jaw dropping & I'm feeling very sad for our country right now.

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Joyce Alene

@JoyceWhiteVance

2 years

If Mitch McConnell won't stand up against Trump for his own wife, why would any voter think he'd stand up for them?

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Joyce Alene

@JoyceWhiteVance

3 years

Neera Tanden is being forced to pay the price for all the women of color who stood up, spoke truth to power & beat Trump. I have no doubt she’ll land on her feet & do great things. But it’s wrong & we should speak up & stand with her.

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Joyce Alene

@JoyceWhiteVance

3 years

Real question - do men have to apologize for dropping f-bombs or only women?

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Joyce Alene

@JoyceWhiteVance

4 years

If we had any other president, everyone would be wearing masks. The federal government would be handing them out for free.

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Joyce Alene

@JoyceWhiteVance

2 years

Cipollone isn't a hero & Pence isn't a hero. If they were we would know all the details, & would have known them during the 2nd impeachment, about the 12/21 meeting where sitting members of Congress who are currently running for re-election, got together to subvert the election.

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Joyce Alene

@JoyceWhiteVance

4 years

Barrett is coming off as rude & patronizing towards @KamalaHarris . Buttons pushed.

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Joyce Alene

@JoyceWhiteVance

3 years

Men don’t give women drugs like quaaludes that knock them out ahead of consensual sex. That’s it. That’s the tweet.

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Joyce Alene

@JoyceWhiteVance

2 years

The Justice Department has offered Judge Cannon a path back from disaster she has created. She would be wise to take it.

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Joyce Alene

@JoyceWhiteVance

4 years

Who do you want your kids to grow up to be, Jim Jordan or Alexander Vindman?

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Joyce Alene

@JoyceWhiteVance

3 years

It's time for the Republican party to go to the president & tell him he must concede & publicly agree to a peaceful transfer of power. Four years in, we are talking about the bare minimum the party can do to retain even a semblance of legitimacy. This is it.

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Joyce Alene

@JoyceWhiteVance

3 years

History will look back on the Trump presidency & wonder how Americans fell for him, why they tolerated him & his crimes for so long & how slowly they shook it off, even when it was clear it was over. It will seem inexplicable.

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Joyce Alene

@JoyceWhiteVance

4 years

I can’t even count how many times Trump has tweeted & re-tweeted this morning. He’s really worried about the Supreme Court argument & the possibility his taxes may finally be released. Anyone with this much to hide doesn’t belong in the office.

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Joyce Alene

@JoyceWhiteVance

3 years

My Grandad didn’t fight in WWII, along with his four brothers, 2 of whom didn’t make it home, so a sore loser with autocratic aspirations could try to overthrow the results of a democratic election.

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Joyce Alene

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3 years

Not a single career prosecutor at DOJ will miss Bill Barr.

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Joyce Alene

@JoyceWhiteVance

9 months

Free speech is one thing, but this is over the line. As a prosecutor, I'd be sorely tempted to make a motion to revoke Trump's pre-trial bond & put him in custody. Let him explain it to the judge.

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Joyce Alene

@JoyceWhiteVance

4 years

Trump has shown more outrage in the last few days about Americans voting by mail during a pandemic than he has ever shown about Russian efforts to interfere with our elections.

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Joyce Alene

@JoyceWhiteVance

6 years

Watching Obama speak & I feel like I could start crying over what we’ve lost as a nation.

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Joyce Alene

@JoyceWhiteVance

2 years

Why is Louis De Joy still in place as the Postmaster General?

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Joyce Alene

@JoyceWhiteVance

4 years

I honest to God still can't believe that this is coming from the president of the United States. Removed or not, this is what a failed presidency looks like.

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

4 years

Our case against lyin’, cheatin’, liddle’ Adam “Shifty” Schiff, Cryin’ Chuck Schumer, Nervous Nancy Pelosi, their leader, dumb as a rock AOC, & the entire Radical Left, Do Nothing Democrat Party, starts today at 10:00 A.M. on @FoxNews , @OANN or Fake News @CNN or Fake News MSDNC!

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Joyce Alene

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2 years

Something that's hard to convey to people who don't walk in their shoes: there are a lot of women walking around today who aren't just sad. They're frightened. They're terrified.

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Joyce Alene

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5 years

I feel sick when I listen to the President talk.

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Joyce Alene

@JoyceWhiteVance

4 years

I really don’t care, do you?

Melania Trump 45 Archived

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4 years

I encourage everyone who chooses to be negative & question my work at the @WhiteHouse to take time and contribute something good & productive in their own communities. #BeBest

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Joyce Alene

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3 years

Alabama doctor says this about her Covid patients, some of whom are dying: “One of the last things they do before they’re intubated is beg me for the vaccine. I hold their hand and tell them that I’m sorry, but it’s too late.”

‘I’m sorry, but it’s too late’: Alabama doctor tells unvaccinated, dying COVID patients

“And now all you really see is their fear and their regret. And even though I may walk into the room thinking, ‘Okay, this is your fault, you did this to yourself,’ when I leave the room, I just see...

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Joyce Alene

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4 years

Senator Grassley: If people don’t like what we do, they can vote us out of office.

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Joyce Alene

@JoyceWhiteVance

4 years

I look forward to hearing Judge Barrett explain the hypocrisy that will permit her to accept the nomination after arguing Merrick Garland could not be confirmed to SCOTUS 8 months before the 2016 election because his views were too different from Justice Scalia’s.

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4 years

🚨 WATCH THIS VIDEO: Judge Amy Coney Barrett asserts that it’s wrong to fill a SCOTUS vacancy during a presidential election year and when it will “dramatically flip the balance of power.”

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Joyce Alene

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2 years

So, the President assaulted a Secret Service agent.

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Joyce Alene

@JoyceWhiteVance

4 years

Just turned on Trump’s Rose Garden spiel in time to hear him claim people should vote for him because he’s the law & order President & Biden isn’t. This, 4 days after commuting the sentence of Roger Stone, who lied about Russian interference in our election to protect Trump.

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Joyce Alene

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4 years

Tomorrow we find out if SCOTUS will require that Trump's taxes be turned over to Congress and/or Manhattan DA Cy Vance. It's sort of a big moment for our country.

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Joyce Alene

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I know from experience how the Secret Service interacts with people who make threats against POTUS, even ones they can't carry out. This, from a former President, is totally out of bounds. It's time to stop letting Trump break the rules. Long past time.

Trump Posts Image of Joe Biden Kidnapped And Bound With Rope

Trump signals approval of violent imagery targeting his political opponents

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Joyce Alene

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3 years

A year ago tonight, Trump gave his final #stateoftheunion address & Nancy Pelosi tore it up afterwards.

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Joyce Alene

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5 years

I took this picture this morning after I finished reading the Cohen information & plea agreement because I wanted to make sure I could always remember the moment when it became clear Mueller was preparing to lay down a royal flush.

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Joyce Alene

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4 years

Barr refuses to reject the use of teargas on peaceful protestors. Resign now.

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Joyce Alene

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3 years

I'm not up for listening to Ted Cruz lecture Merrick Garland about politicization and weaponization of the Justice Department by the Obama administration.

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Joyce Alene

@JoyceWhiteVance

2 years

When do we get to the visitor lists of everyone who's visited Mar-a-Lago in the last 18 months?

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Joyce Alene

@JoyceWhiteVance

2 years

Here's the thing: Trump was an elected president, there to serve the country for 4 years. Once gone, he had no more right to gov't property than any other citizen. He is acting like a king exercising royal prerogatives when in fact, he's just a law breaker.

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Joyce Alene

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3 years

No one who pushed, and especially those who continue to push, the big lie about the election should be permitted to serve on any Jan. 6 commission.

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Joyce Alene

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2 years

Kanye West has more than 3 million followers. He threatened to go "death con 3" on Jewish people. I don't hear his GOP supporters coming out to condemn this. Instead, Jewish people are being told to get over it because he isn't serious.

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Joyce Alene

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2 years

Thanks, Susan Collins

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Joyce Alene

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11 months

This case fills me with such a pervasive sadness. That a president would do what Trump did and that his party would continue to support him should be unthinkable.

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Joyce Alene

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1 year

Hi DOJ. You up?

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Joyce Alene

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2 years

We have work to do, America!

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Joyce Alene

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4 years

I'd rather live in an America that looks like the Democratic convention than the Republican one.

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Joyce Alene

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4 years

Joe Biden doesn't need negative ads. The President is doing that for him in real time.

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Joyce Alene

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4 years

So, I'm up at 4am trying to help my kid, whose college foreign study program has just been canceled (they've been given a week to leave the country) change a flight & get home & all I can think is, but her emails...

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Joyce Alene

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2 years

Biden has it right. If we lose the House & the Senate in November, Republicans will pass a nationwide ban on abortion. That means Democrats must fight for every seat.

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Joyce Alene

@JoyceWhiteVance

4 years

Your honor, I move to disqualify this juror. He was out playing golf with the defendant just before the trial.

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4 years

Another South Carolinian is golfing with President Trump today: Sen. Lindsey Graham.

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Joyce Alene

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4 years

If you & your son shoot & kill a man jogging down the street, you’re a danger to the community & should be arrested pending charges. If the murder is motivated by racism & state authorities won’t do their job, DOJ has the jurisdiction to indict & arrest.

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Joyce Alene

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5 years

This is an interesting point & reminder that @AOC 's generation doesn't remember a more moderate Republican party that people my age remember. Because her views aren't clouded by memories of a party that no longer exists, they may be more accurate.

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"Ocasio-Cortez told me that she treats Republicans like buffoons because that’s how they’ve behaved for as long as she can remember."

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Joyce Alene

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2 years

I'm glad Pence did what he did at the end, but it's important to remember he & others we're hearing from permitted Trump to do great damage to this country for far too long. Pence should never be a viable candidate again.

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Joyce Alene

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2 years

If Alito gets a majority for his opinion in current form, the dissents are going to be very powerful. Saying women shouldn’t have rights today b/c it wasn’t custom & history in this country for men to grant them to them may not turn be the compelling argument he thinks it is.

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Joyce Alene

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6 years

The Democratic Party has called for more accountability from Congresswoman Maxine Waters in the last 24 hours than the GOP has demanded from Trump in 2+ years of hate, bigotry, slurs, bullying & even suggestions of violence.

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Joyce Alene

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4 years

No one blocks a report that fully exonerates them from becoming public.

Supreme Court temporarily blocks Mueller grand jury material from being turned over to House

The House Judiciary Committee said it needed the material for its investigations into President Donald Trump.

www.nbcnews.com

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Joyce Alene

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3 years

. @KamalaHarris in a white pantsuit. Honoring @HillaryClinton

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Joyce Alene

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6 years

I have four children. Their father is a judge. Their mother was a federal prosecutor. None of them could have “represented” themselves at the age of 5 in an asylum proceeding. This is a stain on our history & our commitment to justice & the rule of law.

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Joyce Alene

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4 years

Women got the vote 100 years a ago, in August of 1920. Only one way to celebrate that come November.

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Joyce Alene

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4 years

We should honor the life of RBG, American hero, by refusing to give in, refusing to back down, fighting for the civil rights of all people & demanding our leaders honor the the rule of law. This is our fight now. May her memory be for a blessing.

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Joyce Alene

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2 years

Still blown away that when Mike Flynn, a retired General, was asked if he believed in the peaceful transition of power, instead of saying yes, he asserted his 5th amendment right to avoid giving an answer that would incriminate him.

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Joyce Alene

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4 years

Prof Karlan wasn’t mocking Barron, she was explaining a legal point with an example. But coming from a woman who runs a Be Best campaign while her husband separates thousands of children from their parents with no plans to reunite them, this is just a sham argument.

Melania Trump 45 Archived

@FLOTUS45

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A minor child deserves privacy and should be kept out of politics. Pamela Karlan, you should be ashamed of your very angry and obviously biased public pandering, and using a child to do it.

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Joyce Alene

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6 years

Tonight’s election in Ohio 12 serves as a reminder that we are not a parliamentary system of government, so votes for the Green Party made by people who believe the Democratic Party is not progressive enough are in effect votes for the Republican candidate.

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Joyce Alene

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4 years

Actually, it is. You see, the federal bribery statute, 18 USC 201, defines bribery to include attempted bribery. It's enough to "seek" a bribe - you don't actually have to pull your illegal scheme off.

Jason S. Campbell

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Laura Ingraham: "Attempted bribery isn't in the Constitution"

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Joyce Alene

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4 years

If the country reopens on May 1, let’s have a rule than business owners should be there alongside their employees, with the same protective gear & exposure to risks. Same for the politicians who authorize this.

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Joyce Alene

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4 years

By that same logic, we should quit funding his presidency.

BBC News (World)

@BBCWorld

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US President Donald Trump says he is halting funding to the World Health Organization because it "failed in its basic duty" in response to the coronavirus outbreak

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Joyce Alene

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2 years

If you need a reason to vote, remember Ruby Freeman, who the FBI advised to leave her home for 2 months because of threats from Trump supporters. Trump accused her of giving her daughter a usb drive & committing voter fraud. She was giving her daughter a ginger mint.

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Joyce Alene

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A friend texted me this morning: Do you realize how crazy it is that police groups are endorsing a man who refuses to condemn white supremacy? Then they wonder why there is a lack of trust for the police in the black community?

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If the only reason you don’t get prosecuted for committing crimes - twice- is that you’re the president, maybe you shouldn’t be the president anymore.

Prosecutors weighed DOJ policy blocking indictment of a sitting president in closing Trump hush-m...

Prosecutors told a judge Monday that they had "effectively concluded" a probe of efforts to silence two women in the final months of the 2016 campaign

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Joyce Alene

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4 years

She's back.

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Joyce Alene

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5 years

If this turns out to be what the whistleblower complaint is about & it’s accurate, Trump must leave office immediately. A president can’t offer US aid to a foreign country in exchange for prosecution of a political opponent. Heaven help us if we can’t all agree on that.

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Joyce Alene

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Rachel Maddow just spoke for all of us when she said sometimes she thinks she’s died and gone to hell and this is what the news is like in hell.

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Joyce Alene

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4 years

If Republicans want to call Hunter Biden, maybe we should also hear from women who’ve accused Trump of sexual assault, because their testimony would have about as much relevance to the charges in the articles of impeachment as Biden’s would.

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Joyce Alene

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Katie Hill resigned over a consensual affair with a staffer. Bill Clinton was impeached. Jim Jordan stood by silently while tens if not hundreds of young men entrusted to his care as their coach were subjected to sexual abuse & did nothing.

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Joyce Alene

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Every woman who has ever been told "that's no way to talk" knew exactly where this was headed.

Sarah Reese Jones

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This was Trump's epic meltdown on 60 Minutes and it was even worse than reported. Trump literally ran away because he didn't like the questions.

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