@LeahLitman
Judge Jackson's primary qualification is the absence of a "judicial philosophy." By deciding cases on the facts and the law instead of by her views (or her backers' interests) she will be the first proper justice we've had since Souter.
@RBReich
They can't. The Constitution specifies its processes. It specifies that Amdt XIV sec 3 is an impeachment clause (as if we didn't know) by saying a 2/3 vote of both houses could override it. They can't make up new constitutional processes without an amendment.
@NoLieWithBTC
@customcore7
I want to know why no one interrupted her to challenge that statement. They just let her go on as though it was a normal, sane statement.
@GrandOld_Grumpy
@nathaliejacoby1
NATO can change its rules. There's justification. Ukraine isn't fighting anyone in NATO. Nor were they the aggressor. This invasion is the very situation NATO is suppossed to exist to address.
@katieporteroc
@SylvanLane
Oversight needs hard-hitters like you. It's the toughest committee for reformers to crack. Regret losing you from Finance but this one is more important.
@washingtonpost
Revoke them all, please. Noone who no longer works in government needs one, it's a national security risk, and it creates an insider/outsider culture.
@thomaskaine5
We won't have to do anything. NATO's nukes are armed and ready. Moscow would be in flames in minutes.
But he won't. He asked for peace talks because Russia's losing. Losing against Ukraine is just embarrassing. Fighting NATO & losing would give Europe a right to partition Russia
@PalleschiMike
SCOTUS can try Trump. They simply don't want to.
The Senate can't try Trump but they want to.
So they switched roles. They're hoping the Constitution won't notice.
@AaronParnas
@CLC1905
Prosecutors, don't stand back and don't stand by.
Your needless reticence while he was POTUS has cost this country. No POTUS is immune from prosecution. That's one purpose of Amdt XXV.
Let's see some briefs!
@RonFilipkowski
@Sellsworth1963
The Preamble also requires promoting the general welfare. When rights conflict, the consequences are weighed. Preventing mass death has it all over preventing inconvenience.
@welycha
@AOC
Keep Bernie & Castro in Congress, we need them passing bills!
Love Warren in Treasury, but I'd rather have her for Majority Leader since Bernie's not eligible
@kkscott25
@pavameche
@Est1991__
@0hbetave
He's the guy who should have been our president.
And he now chairs the Senate Budget Committee and is already fighting for meaningful COVID relief for all of us.
@WorkingFamilies
@ideologicalized
The answer is not no cops, the answer is better cops.
Make police commissioner an elected office.
Pass laws ending shielding of police records, ending prosecutorial discretion and setting mandatory prison time for police brutality.
@itsJeffTiedrich
He told the protest HE was going to the Capitol to do some undefined thing to keep the "fraudulent" Electoral ballots from being tallied. The terrorist mob fully expected they were going there to support HIS action.
@ClaudetteGGibs1
Reminds me of an old joke: John Belushi asked George Burns (who was about 90), "When did you stop having sex?" Burns replied, "About 2 o'clock this morning."
@erikaherzog
@NewYorkStateAG
Prosecutors work with police all the time so they don't want to make enemies of police. And prosecutors control the grand-jury process. It's a serious defect in the system.
@lucymcbath
💔 I'm so sorry for what happened to your son. You're an amazing person to have channeled your grief and rage into fighting for your community.
Even when our views diverge I'm proud to see a woman like you making a difference in Congress.
@WindsorMann
@bright_kolleen
Impeachment is in three Articles of the Constitution, in addition to two clauses on expulsion. It was plainly intended to be used regularly. We've been letting government officers get away with too much.
@Taniel
The court held in grave error that the Constitution confers rights on the people.
It does not.
It need not.
The people begin with all rights, then by the Constitution confer some on government.
All others we reserve to ourselves.
Right here!
Tell your state reps to pass
100% public campaign funding
&
100% nonpartisan electoral process.
They're the most powerful bills in the US today.
@SHamiltonian
It can end very quickly. Let Ukraine into NATO provisionally. The rules have been tested & failed. Russia gamed "no internal conflict for membership" & is gaming "no wars."
@Nata20826552
@SamRamani2
Thank you, Turkey, and thank you, Ukrainian Crimean Tatars. Upholding the rule of law is hard in wartime, but it is never more needed.
And this "war" is an illegal aggression by Russia in the first place.
@BashingFash
When my EMS instructor was triaging a plane crash he had to walk away from people with no chance of survival. He told us he could only think to himself, "I'm sorry, my friend, but this was not your day."
My first day was 9/11.
You did your best.
Solidarity with Portland.
@CoriBush
How about ending the modern practice of naming bills? These serve only as advertising, are sometimes false & misleading, and make people feel they understand a bill they haven't read. I'd rather see people having to read bills.
Name it the link to the text.
RepairRestoreSafeguard dot org.
When you're sick and tired of "the system is broken."
Repair it.
Restore the government accountability we set down in
the Constitution.
Safeguard your powers, as well as your rights.
It's time.
@designmom
@caveofthedead
Loved this, but 1 error! Ejaculation is not necessary to cause pregnancy. Some seminal fluid is released well before ejaculation. Safe sex means the WHOLE time of intercourse, not just the end!
@MissNyetTrump
Article VI prohibits making a public office dependent on swearing your oath of office on any particular religious book or object. It's entirely up to you.
Blocklists: Subscribers can't see/interact with anyone on the list, & vice versa.
Problem: Parties could use megablocklists to split Twitter, making it like other polarized media. The open forum would be lost!
Idea: Some limit to # of people one person can block?
@RepAdamSchiff
History will not be kind to the current Congress.
Nor will the DOJ. Insurrection against the Constitution when you have sworn an oath to it is a federal offense.
@Sandra49932387
@NathanJRobinson
1. Even the UN condemns it: striking one nation on another nation's land, without authorization.
2. We pulled out of both Syria (2 yrs ago) & Iraq (last year). Biden moved us back in. We weren't supposed to be there.
3. Only Congress can authorize acts of war.
@robreiner
@umanoid
Congress can also enforce its own subpoenas. They can fine people, including daily escalating fines.
For that matter, because of Art I, sec 8 they can have federal police make arrests. There are federal police in every state.
Tell them to enforce the subpoenas!
@DumpingDog
@TheRynheart
There are more vulnerable Democratic Senators than Republicans. If you live in ND, WV, OH, FL, MT, WI, MI, MN, NJ, PA, or TN & want the Senate to move left, you need to get involved!
@SDonziger
@alanekennedylaw
@esquire
@nytimes
This entire situation reeks of corruption.
(New q: This is the first I've heard that the statute allowing private prosecution means "private but paid by the taxpayers." Private prosecutors were traditionally paid by their clients.)
@ggreenwald
1. We already have a "partnership for peace." The UN.
2. Dissolving Europe's military alliance would return it to constant wars among its nations.
3. No nation has a right to the "sphere of influence" the superpowers claim. We're seeing what Russia, for one, really means.
@JamaalBowmanNY
@PROTECTION777
The insider investigation must be the
@FBI
's top priority. Members, employees & staff have the right to know their work environment is secure.
@MondaireJones
@KathyStickel
Agree! If a well-regulated militia bears arms, how can those be any but well-regulated arms? The amendment commands Congress to regulate arms.
@LLCatlett
@margil9000
@BernieSanders
I'm concerned about those superdelegates. They can defeat the voters' choice. They're like an electoral college inside a party.
@ellievhall
@Georgiemutt
I'm asking people to tweet the FBI and ask them to investigate the Kenosha police. Nobody strolls through a perimeter armed. Police may not hire hit men.
@nytimes
@BillieO2
Dear
@nytimes
, This is awful, but please don't sacrifice accuracy. The thermometer was invented in the sixteenth century, and accurate recorded air temperatures are less than 200 years old. "Ever recorded" is misleading.
@karenheff
@washingtonpost
Still violates the Constitution. Should never have been done. What's wrong with current FBI and CIA officials? BS. Creates a ruling lcass.
Alaska’s ending 2-party elections.
In AZ AR CA CO ID MO ND OK OR SD UT or WA*
draft a nonpartisan elections bill for your state
using Alaska's just-passed 19AKBE as a template
& get a petition going!
*all ballot-initiative states with senatorial elex in '22
1 down, 49 to go
@iskandrah
@davidsirota
When the GOP no longer has majorities the first statute we need to repeal is the Telecommunications Act of 1996 deregulating mass media.
@vonderleyen
@JustinTrudeau
@GlblCtzn
This is wonderful.
But I hope the EU is still fast-tracking Ukraine's admission, ma'am.
The best thing anyone can do for those affected by the war? Making the invader withdraw. Ukraininan EU membership would do it without a further shot fired.
@JessicaMasonTX
@MozFrame
@ninaturner
34 states do not require deescalation training.
In 40 years there've been 60 studies on this training for nurses & hospital staff but just 1 for police (last year).
But when a 2016 consent decree ordered Newark, NJ PD to have it they later went 1 full year w/o firing a weapon.
@KrisA37039217
Thanks for clearing us all past the paywall.
Sotomayor's recent decisions show she's been focusing hard on textualism. The better you construe text, the harder it is to refute you. Adding it to her already strong grasp of Enlightenment law could develop a great Justice.
@JohnOriel3
@Tesscatbird
@60Minutes
And not just by state law. The Constitution requires militias to be run by states under Congress (art I sec 8). Private militias are barred.
@VABVOX
@JonathanTurley
If Mr. Trump wins he won't serve.
Congress (not states) verifies qualifications
after (not before) the tally
(amdt XX).
They must wait for relevant trials to conclude.
If it goes beyond Jan 20 the VP acts as POTUS until a qualified winner is determined.
#focusonCongress2024
@MalaikaJabali
@Aimee_Arti
Tweet the FBI and ask them to investigate what this video appears to show. Don't fall into an us-v-them mindset. If police are aiding killers that is a federal crime. Protesters are entitled to police protection.
@CagilKasapoglu
@ikalin1
@JohnSimpsonNews
Russia demands?!
Let Ukraine into NATO. NATO would call a ceasefire & make 1 demand:
"Withdraw immediately or face the combined forces of Europe's 2nd largest army and NATO."
Russia would withdraw.
"Nuclear war" = empty threat to prevent this. Pay attention: Who's repeating it?
@MrsRabbitResist
IDK how the church got the idea of banning people from communion but it's not really for the church to decide. If someone wants communion with their God I never heard of the Christian God refusing.
@OccupyDemocrats
@PerkinsJanie
Thanks, Netherlands!
But by only protecting NATO countries you abandon Ukraine to its fate. Please move to bring Ukraine into NATO.
@KlasfeldReports
@valentine_fa
Utter nonsense. That's what we have a Vice President for. Amdt XXV is not just for literal inability but situational inability.
@RepCori
@PamelaLaatz1
@OversightDems
Thank you for forgoing your right of privacy to stand before your colleagues and show America that this issue affects even members of Congress.💔
@painting_tlc
Get a checkup before dieting - including your thyroid. When I suddenly started gaining weight (65 lbs!) I thought it was just "the age." Turned out a medication had damaged my thyroid. Synthroid helps a lot, lost 38 lbs so far & my concentration is back.