Sahil Kapur

Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur

.@RepKinzinger making his case about bad faith and willful stealing of an election: "The president didn't care about actually investigating the facts. He just wanted the Department of Justice to put his stamp of approval on the lies. Who was going to help him? Jeff Clark." — PolitiTweet.org

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KINZINGER: Did the Department find any evidence to conclude there way anything illegal or corrupt about the 2020 election? DONOGHUE: There were isolated instances of fraud. None of them came close to calling into question the outcome of the election in any individual state. https://t.co/GjGfdSloHx — PolitiTweet.org

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@RichardRubinDC respect — PolitiTweet.org

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@RichardRubinDC this is the ultimate Rich tweet — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @jonathanweisman: Quoting the Dred Scott decision approvingly to justify the right to concealed carry. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @LisaDNews: Former Acting AG Rosen: Trump tried to push him, DOJ to do the following: - appt a special counsel to investigate the elect… — PolitiTweet.org

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And what's not https://t.co/6uy3JCQybe — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @NewDay: JUST NOW: “The whole system of government is being run by a geriatric oligarchy,” says @JoeCunninghamSC, while saying President… — PolitiTweet.org

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GALLUP: Confidence in U.S. Supreme Court Sinks to Historic Low. “25% of Americans have confidence in Supreme Court, down from 36% in 2021” https://t.co/Fro7fH6zEW — PolitiTweet.org

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• Republicans praise SCOTUS 2A ruling — most enthusiastic ones are opponents of Senate bill • Numerous GOP senators backing this gun bill called on justices to overturn NY law • NRA celebrates SCOTUS win just as it braces for a rare legislative defeat https://t.co/YzlJVjtwXf — PolitiTweet.org

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• Dems ratcheting up rhetoric against SCOTUS conservatives as "activists" in robes • Early plans to highlight it in 2022 election • Advocates warn SCOTUS could ax more gun laws, including in new Senate bill • Some on left renew call for adding seats https://t.co/YzlJVjtwXf — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @reidepstein: NEW NEWS: Liz Cheney is sending mail to Wyoming Democrats with instructions on how to switch parties to vote for her in th… — PolitiTweet.org

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WHAT'S IN SENATE GUN BILL —Enhanced background checks 18-21 + juvenile records —Redefines FFL to make more sellers conduct checks —Limits "boyfriend loophole" for non-spouse abuse —State grants for red flag & crisis intervention —New trafficking penalties —Mental health $$$ — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @AaronBlake: Vice President Harris's numbers in New Hampshire: 23% favorable 64% unfavorable Worse off than Biden. https://t.co/UF0LfA… — PolitiTweet.org

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NEW: A momentous day for gun laws in the U.S. The Supreme Court handed down a major ruling to expand gun rights as the Senate advanced the most significant attempt at gun safety legislation in three decades. https://t.co/YzlJVjtwXf — PolitiTweet.org

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Justice Stephen Breyer's parting shot at the new Supreme Court majority, in his gun ruling dissent: https://t.co/3DKsIjxNZF — PolitiTweet.org

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NRSC Chair Rick Scott says he "wouldn't have supported" the Texas GOP resolution calling homosexuality an "abnormal lifestyle choice." Scott says the party should be "inclusive" - via @colvinj: https://t.co/fhfEIgQSpN — PolitiTweet.org

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@igorbobic @ChrisCoons ahh. congrats! — PolitiTweet.org

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@igorbobic @ChrisCoons ? — PolitiTweet.org

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Sen. @ChrisCoons — nobody’s idea of a flamethrower — calls gun ruling “the product of a generations-long right-wing effort to alter the Court.” “Today’s court is led by conservative judicial activists who twist Constitutional analysis to substitute their own policy preferences” — PolitiTweet.org

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These 25 Senate Republicans 👇 had signed an amicus brief urging the Supreme Court to overturn New York’s gun law as unconstitutional. (List includes Cornyn and Tillis, top GOP negotiators on the new gun bill, plus McConnell, who’s voting for it.) https://t.co/gacMUuLOzU — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @darehgregorian: Senate gun violence prevention bill clears key test vote, set for passage this week w/ the unstoppable @sahilkapur http… — PolitiTweet.org

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In the sense that it required a “cloture” vote to proceed, yes. This has become standard in the modern Senate over the last ~15 years. — PolitiTweet.org

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All 50 Democrats plus these 15 Republicans voted to move forward with the Senate gun legislation: Blunt Burr Capito Cassidy Collins Cornyn Ernst Graham McConnell Murkowski Portman Romney Tillis Toomey Young — PolitiTweet.org

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New: Senate votes 65-34 to end debate on the Murphy-Cornyn gun legislation. Filibuster defeated. Bill moves toward a final vote. — PolitiTweet.org

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White House "strongly supports" the Murphy-Cornyn gun legislation getting a procedural vote in the Senate now, @OMBPress says in a formal endorsement. https://t.co/AjbhsZng0p — PolitiTweet.org

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The Senate is voting NOW on ending debate on the gun bill. This requires 60 to break a filibuster. — PolitiTweet.org

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On the Supreme Court expanding gun rights: The writing was on the wall when Brett Kavanuagh was made a justice. As @GregStohr and I reported in 2018 >> https://t.co/Ue5Ie1Kbft — PolitiTweet.org

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.@JohnCornyn on the NRA and Senate gun bill: "We worked with the NRA, listened to their concerns, but in the end I think they simply — they have a membership and a business model that will not allow them to support any legislation." https://t.co/6rTjDUEMmP — PolitiTweet.org

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Breyer, dissenting: "Many States have tried to address some of the dangers of gun violence just described by passing laws that limit...who may purchase, carry, or use firearms of different kinds. The Court today severely burdens States’ efforts to do so." https://t.co/VpOtr4BS1g — PolitiTweet.org