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Senior Fellow, @AEI . Co-editor, Scalia Speaks & On Faith. Tweet about bad teams, good music, great books, old shows, and some politics. m. @AdeleScalia , dad x4.

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Christopher J. Scalia
3 years
Ideas have consequences! In 1978, Waylon and Willie advised, “Mamas, don’t let your babies grow up to be cowboys.” Within a generation, Paula Cole was asking, “Where have all the cowboys gone?”
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I'm very sad to hear about the passing of my parents' good friend, and my father's wonderful colleague, Justice Ginsburg. May her memory be a blessing. I'd like to share a couple of passages that convey what she meant to my dad.../3
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Christopher J. Scalia
4 years
This is a story that Judge Jeffrey Sutton shares about an encounter late in my dad's life, when he bought his friend Ruth two dozen roses for her birthday. "Some things in life are more important than votes."
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Justices never clap, let alone stand, during speeches to joint session, but they did for my mom. Beautiful.
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4 years
This is from a roast he delivered for her 10th anniversary on the DC Circuit Court of Appeals. They'd been colleagues on that court until he went to the Supreme Court; she hadn't joined him there yet—and he missed her.
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Christopher J. Scalia
3 years
Some balls calling the publishers a “mob” the day after an actual mob.
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3 years
My statement on the woke mob at @simonschuster
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5 years
They don’t want anything to go full term.
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Igor Bobic
5 years
inbox: Planned Parenthood Calls on Governor Ralph Northam to Resign
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3 years
I don’t know who needs to hear this again, but voices inside your head don’t count as a reliable source.
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3 years
Can’t believe she went to Harvard Law.
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Reese Witherspoon
3 years
No one should be able to purchase a semi-automatic weapon, cross state lines and kill 2 people, wound another and go free. In what world is this safe ... for any of us ?
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Christopher J. Scalia
3 years
Wish I were there to wear my “the top 1% of American earners pay more in income taxes (40.1%) than the other 90% combined (28.6%)” tux.
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3 years
aoc wearing the words tax the rich on her dress? simply iconic #MetGala
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6 years
Rule #1 : don’t take constitutional advice from people who think the Constitution was written in 1776.
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Joe Concha
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MSNBC's Katy Tur: "Based on where Americans stand on the issues, Americans have really moved in a much more progressive direction over the years. Do you think it’s appropriate to continue to take such a strict originalist view of the Constitution given it’s 2018 and not 1776?”
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“Chocolate chocolate chip,” he says, raising the cone he ordered all by himself. “Oooooh!” says the crowd. “Ahhhhh! We are in the presence of greatness!”
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Charlie Spiering
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"Mr. President what did you order?"
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Christopher J. Scalia
5 years
If it meant so much to you, you should have attended his hearing last week—or better yet, voted yesterday.
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Elizabeth Warren
5 years
This is a disgrace. Eugene Scalia spent his career putting the interests of giant corporations ahead of American workers. I stand ready to fight back to protect worker's rights.
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Hard to believe it's been five years.
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5 years
Cuomo had One World Trade Center lit pink to celebrate New York’s new abortion-rights law but okay.
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The Associated Press
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Enthusiasm to pass abortion bans in Republican-dominated states provides stark contrast to the more muted efforts to protect abortion rights in states controlled by Democrats.
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4 years
How it started How it’s going
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5 years
She’s making progress!
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5 years
As others have pointed out, the phrase “buy back” is inaccurate because it implies that citizens buy their guns from the gov’t. For that reason, the phrasing is also a window into the progressive mind, which believes that the state is the source of *everything* you have.
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Beto O'Rourke
5 years
We need to buy back every single assault weapon.
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Christopher J. Scalia
4 years
You'll be surprised to learn that the Times has an opinion column about the friendship between my father and Justice Ginsburg that spends as much time complaining about him as it does celebrating/admiring them.
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Christopher J. Scalia
4 years
#HappyFathersDay . Missing him a ton.
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Christopher J. Scalia
3 years
Dear reporters: we Catholics call it Mass, not service.
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Christopher J. Scalia
3 years
This is going to end with Meghan Markle playing Meghan Markle in season 7 of The Crown.
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Christopher J. Scalia
6 years
My mom receiving the #MedalOfFreedom for my father.
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Christopher J. Scalia
7 months
Expel these students. This is not a matter of free speech. This is assault.
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Visegrád 24
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Harvard students protesting against Israel surround a Jewish student and stop him from being able to leave. 🇺🇸🇮🇱
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Christopher J. Scalia
4 years
"I'm sorry! I didn't realize that, when signing a letter that warns of an expanding culture of 'ideological conformity,' I was agreeing with people whose ideology does not conform with my own."
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Jenny Boylan 🍯
4 years
I did not know who else had signed that letter. I thought I was endorsing a well meaning, if vague, message against internet shaming. I did know Chomsky, Steinem, and Atwood were in, and I thought, good company. The consequences are mine to bear. I am so sorry.
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Christopher J. Scalia
4 years
If by “hypothetical” you mean asking a candidate what he’ll do if he wins, then sure, that’s a hypothetical question.
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Christopher J. Scalia
5 years
President Trump and the home plate ump were both booed last night, but one did a much better job of calling strikes this weekend.
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NBC News
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WATCH: President Trump met with loud boos as he is introduced at the World Series in Nationals Park on Sunday night.
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4 years
A productive Saturday morning session with my new writing partner.
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4 years
It’s no coincidence that people who don’t like originalism are basing their understanding of the word “handmaid” on a novel from the 1980s.
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Christopher J. Scalia
5 years
You thinks that's bad, you should see how they treat babies.
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Peter J. Hasson
5 years
Planned Parenthood Is Accused of Mistreating Pregnant Employees
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Christopher J. Scalia
4 years
15 minutes apart.
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Christopher J. Scalia
11 months
Happy birthday to a great Justice and my dad’s old friend!
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Christopher J. Scalia
5 years
Spent lunch working on my disappearing act/Homer Simpson impersonation.
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4 years
Senator Warner (R-VA) suggested that my father's large family was a good qualification: "Finally…his ability to successfully manage, together with his lovely wife, a family of nine children, may indicate something about his temperament as a future justice of the Supreme Court.”
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Seung Min Kim
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Can someone help me do a clip search and find whether Antonin Scalia was asked whether he could be a proper father to nine children when he was nominated to the Supreme Court
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Christopher J. Scalia
3 years
I'll never forget the first time my parents had Justice Thomas over for dinner. I didn't expect that laugh! It boomed through every room in the house and I loved it. (I still love it.)
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Jeremy Art
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Justice Clarence Thomas on Antonin Scalia: "He said, 'Clarence, you like classical music?' I said, 'Oh, I sure do.' He said, 'Come to the Kennedy Center.' I said, 'Oh yeah, but I don't like people who like classical music.'" #SCOTUS (h/t @mikeallen )
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Christopher J. Scalia
3 years
Yesterday’s rejection was a mere flesh wound!!!
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Donald J. Trump
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WE HAVE JUST BEGUN TO FIGHT!!!
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The expression is either “drop the hammer” or “lower the boom.” Lowering the hammer sounds…gentle.
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3 years
It doesn’t matter how many times you see them, the images of the January 6 rioters in the Senate are still disturbing.
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Christopher J. Scalia
6 years
Emmanuel Macron: “Present me the woman who decided, being perfectly educated, to have seven, eight or nine children.” BA in English from Radcliffe. Nine children. 39 grandchildren. Two great-grandchildren. #PostcardsforMacron
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4 years
Consistent, day-long efforts like this are why she’s one of the all-time greats. #RespectRubin
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Christopher J. Scalia
4 years
Day 1: recite On Eagle’s Wings Day 2: pick another fight with nuns.
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6 years
The Post’s humor columnist went to an elite all-girls school in DC, grad from Harvard (like both of her parents), & her father was a Congressman—but she really likes making fun of Kavanaugh’s privileged upbringing and supposed sense of entitlement. Also, his anger makes her mad.
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Alexandra Petri
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HOW VERY DARE
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Christopher J. Scalia
5 years
Remarkable: the only mention of Gov. Northam’s blackface/KKK picture is at the end, in parentheses. No mention of the rape charges against the Democratic Lieutenant Governor; no mention of the AG’s admission that he wore blackface, too. It’s nothing but progress for Dems in VA!
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The Washington Post
5 years
Perspective: A bright blue Virginia leaves the Confederacy behind
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Christopher J. Scalia
3 years
If you're doing your best imitation of the British during the War of 1812, you're probably not the patriot you think you are.
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Christopher J. Scalia
4 years
Consult a physician if you purchased this mask and are experiencing flute-like symptoms.
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Jethro Tull
4 years
It has come to our intention that others are trying to profit from the sale of Jethro Tull branded so-called face masks, some claiming to offer protection against the COVID disease. We wish to entirely disassociate ourselves from any such product.
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Christopher J. Scalia
6 months
Your terms are acceptable.
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Eric Segall
6 months
To believe Originalism is a good thing you must think these people are wrong: Erwin Chemerinsky, Adrian Vermule, Richard Fallon, Dick Posner, Eric Posner, Pam Karlan, Linda Greenhouse, Mike Dorf, 99% of justices since the founding, Adam Winkler, Reva Siegel, me, most historians.
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Christopher J. Scalia
4 years
My son may not be a good speller—but gosh darn it, he’s a patriot.
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Christopher J. Scalia
4 years
It's official: Amy Coney Barrett confirmed to the Supreme Court of the United States, 52-48. Awesome. Just awesome.
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Christopher J. Scalia
4 years
Accusing a man of gang rape is “softball.” Another nominee of sexual harassment: wiffle ball. Having everyone vote against, and stoking irrational fears about, highly qualified nominees: hacky-sack circles. Charges of racism: tiddlywinks. Bush-era filibusters? Flag football.
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4 years
@SenMarkey You’re either a dolt or a demogogue.
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Christopher J. Scalia
7 months
Thanks for sharing, actionists! The graffiti was gone by the time I got to the office and nobody mentioned it all day, so I wouldn’t have even known about your bravery if it weren’t for this tweet. Thanks also for making me even prouder to work at AEI, you Jew-hating bastards.
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Christopher J. Scalia
28 days
If you need me I'll be writing my new country song, "Try That at a Large Public University in a Red State."
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Christopher J. Scalia
2 years
Put another way: we conservatives believe that a black child in the womb—who is pre-viability, who cannot exist outside of his or her mother—should have the same legal rights as full-grown white people in America.
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Curtis Houck
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Mad Scientist Fat Albert: "Conservatives want you to think that a fetus--a fetus who is pre-viability, it means it cannot exist outside of its mother, it cannot live outside of--of the womb, has the same--should have the same legal rights as full-grown Black people in" America.
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6 years
To the many admirers of @JusticeWillett : he tells me that his "heroic, angelic mom is in her final hours or days. Please spare a prayer for the extraordinary Doris Willett, and for those who love her."
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4 years
Ruth Marcus got the memo.
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1 year
Just wondering, does this also apply to Democrats’ efforts to delegitimize the Supreme Court or nah?
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2 years
That’s a Freedom Fry, son.
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6 years
My wife, ⁦ @AdeleScalia ⁩, wrote for ⁦ @FDRLST ⁩ about how the Kavanaugh confirmation battle has changed her thinking and made her want to become a citizen.
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Christopher J. Scalia
7 years
Amazon's buying Whole Foods for $13.7 billion? That should get them a 1/2 gallon of soy milk and some organic arugula.
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5 years
“Mr. Flake is hurting the cause of confirming conservative judges who would enforce the Constitution in the name of a bill that is unconstitutional.”
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They’re chanting, “There is only one solution / Intifada revolution.” Do they sound enough like Nazis yet?
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4 years
@onesarahjones That’s three more than Rehnquist, Warren, and Kagan (among others).
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4 years
Progress: Gen X, 2019 Gen X, 2020
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2 years
Users/Rubin/drafts/2024/AsBadAsTrump/DeSantis.doc Users/Rubin/drafts/2024/AsBadAsTrump/Youngkin.doc Users/Rubin/drafts/2024/AsBadAsTrump/Pence.doc Users/Rubin/drafts/2024/AsBadAsTrump/Haley.doc Users/Rubin/drafts/2024/AsBadAsTrump/Hogan.doc
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Christopher J. Scalia
6 years
If Kavanaugh is the nominee, the fever-swamp theory that Trump picked him because he'd protect the president from indictment will gain traction. It's nonsense, and here's why. /1
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Jim Acosta
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Trump SCOTUS team has looked at Kavanaugh's past comments on indicting a sitting president, we've confirmed. In 2009, Kavanaugh wrote: "The indictment and trial of a sitting President, moreover, would cripple the federal government..."
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5 years
“I stand ready—but won’t make the vote.”
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4 years
I miss the good ol' days, when people weren't so nostalgic.
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2 years
This passage, about AOC’s reluctance to marry someone of another race, illustrates the regressive impulse of some progressives. @charlescwcooke ’s response is exactly right.
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Dan McLaughlin
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Unsparing, from @charlescwcooke @NRO : AOC's Biggest Problem Is That She's AOC
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5 years
Definitely not a religious test for office, though.
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3 years
Son: What day and month is it? Me: March 1st. Son, stomping across the kitchen floor: Okay, now will you tell me? #SonJokes
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I love that she acts as though she’s defying the Court here, when this is exactly what the Court says she needs to do.
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This thread is best understood as a late-night voice message. “Anyway, call me back when you have a chance. Or don’t. Whatever. This is Steve, by the way.”
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Dear Hollywood, In your movie about the Wagner Group, please cast Michael Ehrmantraut to play Prigozhin. Sincerely, [sign here]
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@DanRather For those of you under the impression that Kenneth here knows the frequency: originalists don’t believe the Constitution should never change; they just realize it’s not judges but citizens through their representatives who should make those changes. Read!
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President Obama “politely disagreed” with a straw man version of the opinion. And the justices didn’t just happen to be in attendance—they were in the first two rows (right in front of the president) and were surrounded by Democrats who stood to applaud.
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6 years
Honored to be mentioned by David Brooks in his new column.
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Imagine this logic applied to something that’s clearly protected by the Bill of Rights, like—I don’t know—the right to keep and bear arms.
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Bernie Sanders
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Abortion is a constitutional right – not a privilege for those who can afford it.
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Twitter’s done for the day.
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4 years
Before we were married, I wrote a poem for @AdeleScalia about what life would be like together, describing a Saturday afternoon where I watched college football and raked leaves with the the kids. Not the most romantic stuff, but I’m pretty happy it came true.
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@JohnJHarwood Why did you make such a dumb thought public? Are you paid by the tweet?
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Watching the snow fall, holding a sleeping infant, reading the paper, smelling bacon.
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3 years
Traditional "first day of in-person school" picture:
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@axios Does @MSNBC realize how obnoxious this is?
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4 years
Picture of the day: my father and the great constitutional scholar Walter Berns just chillin' at an AEI event, circa 1970-something.
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3 years
Really hard to describe what it’s like in Virginia this weekend. There are tons of them out, roaming around joyfully, excitedly, living for the moment and getting together and making tons of noise after being underground for what seems like ages. Lots of cicadas out, too.
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Style guide update: When progressives restrict access to certain works, they're protecting children. When conservatives do the same thing, they're banning books.
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The Washington Post
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Four progressive teachers in Washington’s Mukilteo School District wanted to protect students from a book they saw as outdated and harmful. The blowback was fierce.
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What my wife said: "I like that one Cheap Trick song." What I heard: "I'd like you to play 50 consecutive Cheap Trick songs for me, supplementing each one with trivia, opinions, and your personal memories. Also, please provide lip-syncing and air guitar."
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Some of the stories about Justice Ginsburg skipping Trump’s State of the Union mention that my father didn’t attend Pres Obama’s SOTUs—which is true, but not the whole story. He stopped attending them altogether in the late 90s.
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Super Bowl party tip: all the Super Bowl ads are already online. Watch them now so that when they air during the game, you can shush everyone and announce, “This one’s really good!” Then, let them know when the best part is about to start by declaring, “here it is here it is!”
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4 years
@bariweiss I’m old enough to remember when bands broke up because of Yoko Ono.
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4 years
They usually reserve this sound effect for when they deny cert.
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Jeremy Art
4 years
LISTEN: Toilet flush during U.S. Supreme Court oral argument (h/t @nicninh )
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2 years
This guy’s coming after @3YearLetterman ’s title.
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Christopher J. Scalia
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It’s a photoshopped picture of a dog, so technically it’s a *veterinarianed* image.
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S.V. Dáte
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Fine, just the president of the United States disseminating a doctored image created by a right-wing propaganda site.
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Georgina Edith Scalia. @AdeleScalia and the newbie (my mom’s 40th grandkid!!!) are doing well. Thanks for all the prayers and love!
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Christopher J. Scalia
6 years
The rising red star of the Democratic party is a dim-witted demagogue.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
6 years
The fact that #ScotusPick Kavanuaugh believes that a President cannot be indicted is an automatic disqualification from Supreme Court consideration. Plain and simple.
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