Glenn Greenwald

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@RogerAramayo2 You people are absolute idiots, suffering from severe adolescent entitlement syndrome. You're so accustomed to demanding people lie to please you that when someone merely points out a factual truth, you whine in the corner as if it's offensive. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@JohnBurgJr You're an imbecile. Gay marriage was not legal in Brazil. David and I were legally married in New York, after that state democratically enacted marriage equality for same-sex couples. Brazil only had judicially recognized civil unions for immigration and other purposes. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@DgFontanella Yes, both the majority and dissent believe Roberts is engaged in sophistry. That doesn't change the fact that his vote is what it was: he said he'd uphold the MS law without overruling Roe because, with modifications, Roe and the MS law can coexist, hence no reason for overrule. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@MarkSoveign Yes, Democrats always find a way to convince their idiot followers that they can't do any of the things they promised they'd do if they won -- even when they win -- so you have to just keep voting harder and harder for them. I wrote about it in 2010: https://t.co/e7q9nMxGBs — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@TRichUtah In exactly the same way that conservatives believe they can enact a federal law banning abortions (Mike Pence vowed that today), so, too, could Dems do the opposite. There'd be legal challenges both ways but the arguments would be the same. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@ete_jo @GavinNewsom You don't speak for everyone. You're just an anonymous coward, while my life speaks for itself in terms of the causes and values I believe in, and what I'm wiling to risk and sacrifice in support of them. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@AMF2440 @GavinNewsom I didn't say either of those two things but, as the Court noted in the second page of its ruling, Professor Laurence Tribe said exactly that: Roe has no constitutional basis, but he'd support pro-abortion laws. https://t.co/vVmzoEMhuH — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@knickstrahm https://t.co/jvDAOAXXTb — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@MarkSoveign They could vote to eliminate the filibuster -- either in general or for this. They just can't get the votes to do so democratically despite winning the WH and both houses of Congress. Stop making excuses for your party. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Last month, California Governor @GavinNewsom included in his budget significant funding increases to enable people facing economic barriers to travel to California to obtain abortions (California democratically enshrined Roe into state law): https://t.co/Mh8tx7ypN9 — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Instead of signing songs and reading poems, Dems -- holding the WH and both houses of Congress -- could 1) enshrine Roe as federal law (which just failed); 2) create funds to allow people to travel to states where abortions are allowed; 3) stop campaigning for pro-life Dems. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@dcp54466257 I'm sorry, but you are extremely ignorant of how the court works. Their votes are about nothing other than which party wins in a particular case. Often, they have violently different rationale for why one party wins. If 4 Justices had voted with Roberts, Roe would still be law. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@CharlotteRuse3 What was abolished is the constitutional right to have a pre-viability abortion, a right recognized by Roe and reaffirmed by Casey. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@ark0n @SmoothCat I'm sorry I forced Ruth Bader Ginsburg to reject Obama's pleas to retire so that he could replace her, causing her instead to die on the Court under Trump and be replaced by Amy Coney Barrett, aka: the 5th vote to overrule Roe. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@BradMcRae_NS @Corpulace @areader59 @joshgerstein I spent 8 years barred from being able to live in my own country with my husband because a law signed by Bill Clinton called "The Defense of Marriage Act" banned recognition of my marriage for immigration purposes. I don't need lectures from Brad McRae on anything. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@DgFontanella That's what I just said. He wanted to modify Roe to get rid of the "viability" standard but he wrote separately to explain why he was refusing to overrule Roe and Casey. The majority devoted paragraphs to mocking him for refusing to overrule Roe. You can read it in his own words. https://t.co/rOgyC5THn7 — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@SmoothCat That tweet is probably the least controversial tweet about this ruling has been posted all day or will be posted in the next week. It does nothing but correct a clear but common factual error on the vote and encourage people to read the ruling. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@bitcoinhistoric @chanceitup The majority devoted multiple paragraphs to mocking the shit out of Roberts for his argument that there was no need to overrule Roe to decide the case. Roberts' opinion contains long sections about why he wouldn't overrule Roe. There's no doubt about this. https://t.co/KLznoIofyK — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@FeriaInvestor @dcp54466257 Why do I try to reason with and educate obviously ignorant, low-IQ anonymous trolls? One of life's enduring mysteries. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@areader59 @joshgerstein I'm pretty sure Thomas is only one vote and 5 are needed. Kavanaugh insists that you're wrong about the impact of this ruling. Either way, I didn't "help them accomplish this": I single-handedly caused it. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@HawassHat @sluggahjells I personally wouldn't put the blame on any individuals besides the Justices who ruled the way you don't like, but there's no question that what delivered the 5th vote to overrule Roe was RBG's rejection of Obama's pleas to retire, leading her to die on the Court under Trump. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@FeriaInvestor @dcp54466257 You have no fucking idea what you're talking about. The judgment is just about who wins in the case. Roberts voted in favor of the MS law because he believes it's compatible with Roe and that overruling Roe is not necessary to decide the case. He did not vote to overrule Roe. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@chanceitup Yes, I agree it's important to get the vote right on the most consequential Supreme Court decisions rather than inaccurately and falsely describing the Chief Justice's ruling. I also think it's important to encourage the public to read the ruling, not rely on biased pundits. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@dcp54466257 Roberts explicitly said he disagreed with the part of the opinion that overruled Roe and Casey. He concurred in the judgment because his vote on the outcome of this specific case was the same as the majority's - upholding the MS law - but he did not support overruling Roe. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@sluggahjells The reason I recommended the first 8-10 pages of the ruling and dissent is, especially for cases the judges know are controversial, they often use that first section to explain their reasoning and its impact to the broader public, not people with specialized degrees in law. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

When the very similar if not identical Dobbs ruling was first leaked to @joshgerstein in early May, I wrote about some of the key principles and facts about the case that were being deliberately distorted by all sorts of activist/pundit types: https://t.co/K7D9svm6A5 — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

1) The vote to overrule Roe was not 6-3 but 5-4 (Roberts voted to uphold the MS law and change Roe's "viability" standard but not overrule it). 2) Even if not the whole thing, it's very worth reading the first 8-10 pages of the Dobbs ruling and dissent: https://t.co/xktAm2775F — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

RT @ggreenwald: Por algum motivo, estou me lembrando da entrevista que fiz em 2018 com @MarinaSilva, que explicou que no momento em que voc… — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

RT @madeleinelacsko: Se for para defender a seita luloafetiva e bater no @ggreenwald e no @davidmirandario, homofobia não é homofobia, é pi… — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

RT @davidmirandario: Visitamos a sede do Instituto Vida Livre, que faz um lindo trabalho na reabilitação e soltura de animais em situação e… — PolitiTweet.org