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An example of the double standard in attorney discipline. A number of Trump attorneys are facing charges for false statements—some of which were never even in court, and others aren’t false. The four attorneys who misstated facts in a SCOTUS brief will suffer no repercussions. — PolitiTweet.org

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It doesn’t follow that a low-MCAT black doctor would have better results than a high-MCAT white or Asian doctor. It might! But the study doesn’t measure that. It does suggest that maybe we shouldn’t have such stringent licensing for some forms of medical care. — PolitiTweet.org

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This is an interesting study, but all it shows is that among a small sample of blacks, several of whom were illiterate, a small but significant percentage of them had racist views and decisions about having a white doctor. /1 — PolitiTweet.org

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.@JeffClarkUS is facing legal discipline because he wrote a *draft* that putatively wasn’t true (but only wasn’t true because it was never sent). These four lawyers signed a brief to the Supreme Court with a fictional misstatement about a misleading racist study. https://t.co/ngJl5pKgBB — PolitiTweet.org

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Anyway, anyone want to place a bet whether the game of telephone works and takes a bad legal writeup of a bad study and the entirely fictional (but striking!) claim in the brief ends up in a SCOTUS opinion? — PolitiTweet.org

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So the study is confusing correlation with causation: if you have a black doctor, your baby is more likely to survive, but that’s because that means you’re less likely to be in the NICU, where there are fewer black doctors. It has nothing to do with the race of the doctor. — PolitiTweet.org

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So right away that’s not a doubling of anything. But the ceteris isn’t paribus. The white docs aren’t seeing the same infants as the black docs. They’re more likely to get the NICU cases where all infants are less likely to survive, and study doesn’t control for that. — PolitiTweet.org

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The lawyers are lying (or, more likely, mathematically illiterate). The study says no such thing. The study purports to find black-doctor/black-infant have survival rate of 99.8% vs. 99.6% for white-doctor/black-infant. https://t.co/USWCS1p65b — PolitiTweet.org

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Sure enough, that’s what the brief says. Let’s look at the study in the footnote. https://t.co/bn0VX5zEzG https://t.co/O7YjighTyy — PolitiTweet.org

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Saw this in @SCOTUSblog. Wait, what? Affirmative action doctors *double* the chances of black infant survival?!? https://t.co/mMKB58vJey — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @daveweigel: @EsotericCD There are some conspiracy theories about Soros, but “he spent millions to elect DAs who pledged to put fewer pe… — PolitiTweet.org

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@NormaIPresident If he’s six, isn’t that a date? — PolitiTweet.org

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@FrankBednarz Any appeal to racism taints the trial and requires a do-over. And the “stereotypes” were really mundane here, the sort of thing that a lawyer accuses every adverse witness of. Imagine a black class action objector! — PolitiTweet.org

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Yeah, this opinion gets worse and worse the less I skim it and more I read it. — PolitiTweet.org

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My brother is the @RyanRadia of useless data. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @HarryBo96890762: https://t.co/5DHfhk9FBj — PolitiTweet.org

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@jneeley78 That was my impression also, but I was just engaging in small talk before I got seated and didn’t really care about the minion eschatology. — PolitiTweet.org

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I was laid off by Twitter today if you know any open positions. I was in charge of the feature where you see the same irrelevant ad for a movie you’d never want to see over and over and over again. I also innovated the product that switched your timeline from chron to algorithm. — PolitiTweet.org

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Yes, Wash S Ct earlier used CRT to hold that criminal prosecutions of Blacks must be to a different standard than other races. A convicted white should challenge his conviction on these grounds—but will a Wash state criminal defense attorney risk the wrath of the women? — PolitiTweet.org

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Me: Are you Thing One or Thing Two? Host in costume: I’m a minion. Me: Oh! I thought minions were yellow. Host: There are evil minions that are different colors. Me: I apologize, I’m not up on minion canon. (Thing One and Two are red, anyway.) — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @gtconway3d: "Almost every liberal who knows about Harvard’s 'Jewish quota' from the 1920s and 1930s finds it repellent. Yet it bears a… — PolitiTweet.org

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@EdAsante77 @Heminator It was a joke. Read the bio. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @benpershing: What happens when senators say they won’t caucus with either party, as Evan McMullin has pledged? “In the hand­ful of ex­a… — PolitiTweet.org

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@rkylesmith https://t.co/VvsMeNDOB6 — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @PinkertonsBBQ: Ok @davidortiz let’s make it happen Big Papi!!! https://t.co/hWz8IYQU4p — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @ComfortablySmug: Just to get the media story straight, a nudist hippie that was part of a pro BLM commune walked in only underwear from… — PolitiTweet.org

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Anyway, here it is: a state Supreme Court applying critical race theory for the purpose of discriminating against whites in civil litigation. This pseudoscientific nonsense is infecting our institutions. cc: @realchrisrufo — PolitiTweet.org

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If I were a Wash. P lawyer in state court, I’d be sure that my critical expert witness was Black. Free roll! Either I win, or the D rebuttal of the expert was a microaggression of some sort and I get a new trial—or threaten one, to induce better settlement up front. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @sunnyright: It happens all the time. The disappearing of the Waukesha parade massacre and the Texas synagogue attack when the details b… — PolitiTweet.org

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We’ll see what happens on remand (facts are rarely in equipoise, so the burden shifting may not be an issue when the judge was already skeptical of the plaintiff), but this is pernicious going forward—any criticism of a Black party or witness can be characterized as racist. — PolitiTweet.org