Sheldon Whitehouse

Sheldon Whitehouse @SenWhitehouse

Good overview of what over a billion dollars, a few dozen front groups and a few shady operators can do to wreck democracy and capture a Court. https://t.co/72qYRSPMOK — PolitiTweet.org

Sheldon Whitehouse @SenWhitehouse

Free and fair elections are on the line. Will the Court recognize these arguments for what they are – as dangerous nonsense?  And will SCOTUS clean up amicus disclosures and conflicts of interest? — PolitiTweet.org

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Eastman himself filed a brief urging the Court to embrace this fringe doctrine as law. He has connections to multiple other amici, all of them singing in chorus. @RepHankJohnson and I filed a brief illuminating the amicus mess not disclosed to the Court. https://t.co/irzKOMLgGP — PolitiTweet.org

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The case swarms with special interest “amici” supporting this extreme theory; many with a history of election denial and voter suppression—and some that actually employed this theory in attempts to overturn the election. — PolitiTweet.org

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The independent state legislature theory formed the basis of many of the bogus legal challenges to the 2020 election results—including the arguments Eastman was pushing about fake electors. — PolitiTweet.org

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Against this backdrop, SCOTUS is set to hear argument in Moore v. Harper, where petitioners urge the Court to adopt a fringe legal theory called the “independent state legislature doctrine.” — PolitiTweet.org

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Emails now show Eastman and other Trump lawyers targeting Justice Thomas to cast doubt on the GA results, delay the count there, and induce the state legislature to submit a slate of fake electors. https://t.co/DRYb9upDRc — PolitiTweet.org

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If he didn’t know then, he certainly does now as it’s public record. The facts of what he knew and when he knew it should be determined by the Court, if it wants to be arbiter of its own ethics. — PolitiTweet.org

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Justice Thomas has repeatedly refused to recuse himself in cases involving the 2020 election and the House Select Committee’s investigation into the events leading up to the 1/6 insurrection, despite his wife’s known involvement in the plots. — PolitiTweet.org

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Ginni Thomas was in touch w/ John Eastman after election, inviting him to speak about how state legislatures could overturn 2020 results. Eastman is under investigation for attempting to subvert election, including giving Pence memo on how to reject electors from GA, AZ & WI. — PolitiTweet.org

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We know Ginni Thomas was active in efforts to overturn the 2020 election—she exchanged texts with Mark Meadows about strategy and contacted state officials in AZ and WI to urge them to appoint phony electors. — PolitiTweet.org

Sheldon Whitehouse @SenWhitehouse

Republicans want to dismantle Social Security and Medicare, fundamental benefits that millions of hard-working Americans have earned over decades. Our seniors deserve a dignified retirement, and I won't let the GOP take that away. https://t.co/eMnXEooj4Q — PolitiTweet.org

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Special interests will spend whatever it takes to protect Corporate America's bottom line – even if it comes at the expense of American families. From reducing Rx drug costs to combatting price gouging at the pump, I’ll keep leading the fight to end corporate profiteering. — PolitiTweet.org

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Surprise, surprise. Corporate America, with the @USChamber and @PhRMA leading the charge, unleashed their DC lobbyists over 2,600 times to stamp out efforts to fight corporate profiteering – a 9:1 advantage over supporters of those efforts. https://t.co/2liOTGpBGO — PolitiTweet.org

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Sheldon Whitehouse @SenWhitehouse

As ever, CEOs talk big on climate in public while their companies fund lobbying/political groups & trade assoc that oppose (sometimes vehemently) serious climate bills. When does the BS end? Maybe w/ audited climate political footprint reports that shareholders/customers can see. — PolitiTweet.org

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American professionals should not be helping sanctioned Russian oligarchs stash away their ill-gotten gains. @RepMalinowski and I are leading the bipartisan charge to close loopholes that allow foreign kleptocrats to launder dirty money in the U.S. https://t.co/7qUlmvyBLP — PolitiTweet.org

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Bellingcat figures out who’s doing the targeting of Ukrainian civilians for murder by missile. Look to see their faces one day before the International Criminal Court. https://t.co/KfoTVqSlLB — PolitiTweet.org

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Not holding my breath for apologies from Republicans whose instinct when an 82-year-old man had his skull broken with a hammer was to spread lies about it. https://t.co/ezVy9hI6B0 — PolitiTweet.org

Sheldon Whitehouse @SenWhitehouse

NEWS FROM LONDON:  in UK, excess profit clawback from Big Oil is under way; in US, Republicans serve Big Oil and block our excess profit clawback.   https://t.co/6DdIzDzCxP — PolitiTweet.org

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God’s noble creatures vs. an industry that refuses to clean up after itself.   Sadly, we can predict the polluters win — for sure, unless we act. https://t.co/O7rG1P74RR — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @StopBigOil: Join @SenWhitehouse & @RepRoKhanna at 3:00pm ET to talk about the Big Oil Windfall Profits Tax and President Biden’s call f… — PolitiTweet.org

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Let’s hope this is NOT a SCOTUS effort to run out the clock until Trump flunkies in a Republican Congress can kill the subpoena. Sad to even have to think that. https://t.co/uoDs99GuEK — PolitiTweet.org

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Today we celebrated an $82.5 million federal INFRA Grant that will upgrade the Pell Bridge and prepare it for at least another half century of use amid a changing climate. It’s the third major grant RI has received from the INFRA Program, which I had a key role in creating. https://t.co/2s6KOz2PNU — PolitiTweet.org

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It’s time for Congress to stand up to Big Oil and bring relief to consumers, instead of corporate stock buybacks and bonuses. My Big Oil Windfall Profits Tax would claw back the industry’s excessive profits and send that money directly back to hardworking American families. — PolitiTweet.org

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Big Oil is exploiting Putin’s invasion of Ukraine and a cartel-driven market to rake in tens of billions of dollars, and the American people are paying the price. As the President made clear today, the fossil fuel industry’s price gouging must stop. — PolitiTweet.org

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Not often Pompeo and I agree but this is my bill that will help deny shelter in USA to international criminals and kleptocrats (not a good look for City on a Hill). — PolitiTweet.org

Sheldon Whitehouse @SenWhitehouse

It’s a weird derangement when simple human sympathy cannot be summoned for an 82-year-old battered in a home invasion. https://t.co/l2qNCFWGSg https://t.co/5NHSUpqA33 — PolitiTweet.org

Sheldon Whitehouse @SenWhitehouse

Brilliant pictorial visioning of what fossil fuels are doing to us, and what will come if we don’t change. https://t.co/HMIzrlegUn I wish there was a similar pictorial for the fossil fuel industry lies and corruption that keep us on this fateful track. — PolitiTweet.org

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It was also eerily bipartisan, and shows what could be done if Big Oil would loosen its chokechain on Republicans so we could address fossil fuel emissions like CO2 and methane. — PolitiTweet.org