David Weigel

David Weigel @daveweigel

RT @jmartNYT: “Thanks to three decades of precedents, Supreme Court confirmation hearings now exist mainly for the president’s party to pra… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @DrewSav: It's a new experience for many Republican Senators to be on the losing side of a Supreme Court nomination. Only 13 GOP Senator… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @JeremyBWhite: Should note here that the gun control measures @SenFeinstein is proposing here -- background checks, bans on high-capacit… — PolitiTweet.org

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Saying "human, human, human" until I get someone to pick up at a call center, wondering why they can't just hire some of the 10 million people making spam calls. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @KDbyProxy: So… I looked through SJC's "Questions for the Record" and Judge Jackson's answers and here's a 🧵 on some small things that c… — PolitiTweet.org

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Senate dealmakers have agreed on a package with $10B in funds for the US covid response — but $0 for global aid, people familiar tell @ddiamond @rachel_roubein. https://t.co/ElLJw9A42k — PolitiTweet.org

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@tregas He's not lying, it's just selective history that pretends GOP presidents were powerless to nominate Brown bc Biden said he'd filibuster her. — PolitiTweet.org

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@mikedebonis Biden did indeed say he'd filibuster her, but he ended up voting against cloture on Alito anyway. "Dem in minority says he'll filibuster" doesn't mean he had the power to sink her. — PolitiTweet.org

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Instead, Bush passed her over and picked Alito. Then, when Dems won the Senate in 2006, Bush's team leaked that he would appoint a woman and/or minority judge if he got another opening. He didn't. https://t.co/7gznMQQv2h — PolitiTweet.org

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@jonmladd Estrada never got any kind of judgeship, Brown had been a state supreme court justice for seven years when Bush nominated her. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @jonmladd: It seems like what happened here is that: Republicans had an accurate talking point about Miguel Estrada, who was never confi… — PolitiTweet.org

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I said this the last time it came up, but when Bush picked Harriet Miers in 2005, she had no judicial experience - Brown already had years on the California Supreme Court. She absolutely would have been confirmed that year with a 55-seat GOP majority. — PolitiTweet.org

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Bush and Trump had five chances to nominate JRB and never did, the persistence of this talking point is strange — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @isaiah_bb: My friend you are describing the entire fucking franchise. — PolitiTweet.org

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@nweiskoff Ted Cruz said that, to me! https://t.co/2J9wUOHHCF — PolitiTweet.org

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@Atrios I should say “gotten confirmed.” But I can imagine Durbin sticking to the Grassley Standard and saying they should wait til Americans decide in this rare case where voting was underway already. The pressure would have been Rs saying not holding a hearing was anti-Catholic. — PolitiTweet.org

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You don’t really need to speculate, the fact that Garland couldn’t get a vote means that opposing party senates just won’t let POTUS fill the bench anymore. If Dems had the Senate majority in 2020, you think Barrett would have gotten a vote? Be serious. — PolitiTweet.org

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You don’t really need to speculate, the fact that Garland couldn’t get a vote means that opposing party senates just won’t let POTUS fill the bench anymore. If Dems had 51 votes in 2020, you think Barrett would have gotten a vote? Be serious. — PolitiTweet.org

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The last Supreme Court nominee confirmed when the president’s party didn’t control the Senate? You guessed it: Clarence Thomas. Too busy to Google rn but I assume that was a low-key bipartisan process. — PolitiTweet.org

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@pbump Too soon — PolitiTweet.org

David Weigel @daveweigel

RT @pbump: if i were a young blonde lady i would simply choose not to startle OJ https://t.co/ZLw6Z6vBNk — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @Nick_B_Nick: @daveweigel It's a wasteful requirement that should be changed especially for people who have the means to provide their o… — PolitiTweet.org

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@badtakesalaska The first clue that a pundit should clam up is if they don't refer to the other 49 states as "Outside." — PolitiTweet.org

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@chrisgeidner Geidner-pitch: What are the chances of the current SCOTUS revisiting Obergefell and reversing it? — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @tjl: such a striking photo. look at the monuments to our democracy! the grid of homes in a booming and vibrant city! the pastoral beaut… — PolitiTweet.org

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@annamerlan @darth I think we've moved on to arguing that any vaccinated person who dies was killed by the vaccine; or in the Bruce Willis case, that the vaccine gave him the aphasia he'd had since before the pandemic. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @maxberger: House Democratic leaders who have yet to comment on Amazon Labor Union's historic victory: - @SpeakerPelosi - Majority @Le… — PolitiTweet.org

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It would be a fun sequel to "Merrick Garland will obviously get a vote, look at all the Republicans on record saying they could support him!" (Biden didn't fall for this on Childs.) — PolitiTweet.org

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"Women hold up half the sky, but men rule the party" is something more and more people are saying. — PolitiTweet.org

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That's right. https://t.co/TBgqErDkfZ https://t.co/iFuY6Tfjfu — PolitiTweet.org