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Sheldon Whitehouse @SenWhitehouse
The men and women who defend our country deserve the very best physical and mental health care available. Yesterday, I was honored to attend the ribbon-cutting of @VAProvidence’s new Mental Health Building, which will help more veterans access quality programs & support. https://t.co/4kcgdtsayx — PolitiTweet.org
Sheldon Whitehouse @SenWhitehouse
There are lots of options for finally restoring integrity at the Court but this much is undeniable: the Court’s ethics omerta is both wrong and unsustainable. — PolitiTweet.org
Sheldon Whitehouse @SenWhitehouse
Supreme Court justices would not be bound, but would be hard pressed to ignore public findings and recommendations of such a panel. — PolitiTweet.org
Sheldon Whitehouse @SenWhitehouse
Don’t like that? How about an independent review? Chief judges of the eleven Circuits form an ethics panel with power to hear complaints, investigate and make public findings and recommendations. — PolitiTweet.org
Sheldon Whitehouse @SenWhitehouse
My Supreme Court Ethics, Recusal, and Transparency Act would finally require the rest of the justices to weigh in on recusal issues. — PolitiTweet.org
Sheldon Whitehouse @SenWhitehouse
And if not, doesn’t that belie the theory that the Court can clean up its own messes? And if it can’t, doesn’t that prove the need for Congress to step in? — PolitiTweet.org
Sheldon Whitehouse @SenWhitehouse
If Roberts can investigate the Alito draft leak, can’t he investigate the now double-barreled Thomas recusal issue? — PolitiTweet.org
Sheldon Whitehouse @SenWhitehouse
Marcus agrees: “this stacked court has — time after time, but most flagrantly in overruling Roe v. Wade — abandoned normal rules of restraint, twisted or ignored doctrine, and substituted raw power to achieve its desired result.” https://t.co/dNjlgnQJjg — PolitiTweet.org
Sheldon Whitehouse @SenWhitehouse
No wonder they invest so much in nasty dark money politics — to protect that huge fat perk is worth a lot of influence-buying. — PolitiTweet.org
Sheldon Whitehouse @SenWhitehouse
.@rff finds $185/ton social cost of carbon (probably too low actually). In 2020, fossil fuel production and combustion released 4,605 million metric tons of CO2 equivalent in the U.S. alone. At that rate, the fossil fuel industry is scamming us by $852 billion every year! — PolitiTweet.org
Sheldon Whitehouse @SenWhitehouse
The fossil fuel industry failure to fix this is emblematic of its irresponsible and dangerous conduct. They made billions gouging consumers and don’t fix this. https://t.co/1heY8HooUk — PolitiTweet.org
Sheldon Whitehouse @SenWhitehouse
Today, we remember the nine Rhode Islanders we lost. https://t.co/weQfRdgUnb — PolitiTweet.org
Sheldon Whitehouse @SenWhitehouse
On the 21st anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, my thoughts are with all the families forever changed that day, and with the first responders and survivors who still bear scars. We will never forget. — PolitiTweet.org
Sheldon Whitehouse @SenWhitehouse
To cap it all off: Leo also just got a $1.6B political slush fund from a far-right billionaire to influence our politics using right-wing dark money schemes. It worked for Court capture; what’s next? — PolitiTweet.org
Sheldon Whitehouse @SenWhitehouse
Recap: the Justices put on the Court via Leo’s FedSoc are getting marching orders from Leo’s Honest Elections Project, which under a different “fictitious name” also funded the TV ads to confirm the Justices. Not normal. — PolitiTweet.org
Sheldon Whitehouse @SenWhitehouse
The Federalist Society became their dark-money turnstile, grooming and selecting loyal judges. How do we know? Trump plus his White House Counsel plus FedSoc founder plus a Republican Senate Judiciary chair all bragged about it. Not subtle. — PolitiTweet.org
Sheldon Whitehouse @SenWhitehouse
The Judicial Crisis Network took in checks as big as $17 million to run TV political ads for Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett. The whole Court Capture Scheme looks to have cost more than $580 million — the big donors weren’t messing around. — PolitiTweet.org
Sheldon Whitehouse @SenWhitehouse
And Leo’s Honest Elections Project isn’t even a real group. It’s a legal “fictitious name” of another group that also operates under other “fictitious names,” including the Judicial Crisis Network. — PolitiTweet.org
Sheldon Whitehouse @SenWhitehouse
Who was behind this Scheme? The same guy behind the Honest Elections Project: Leonard Leo, who from his Federalist Society perch stocked the Court with Roberts, Alito, and three Trump justices. — PolitiTweet.org
Sheldon Whitehouse @SenWhitehouse
Good to be with Mayor Polisena to dedicate Johnston rec center in memory of Danny Mazzulla, Jr., a lifelong resident of Johnston and beloved coach and mentor to many. https://t.co/WZWrrKPZuB — PolitiTweet.org
Sheldon Whitehouse @SenWhitehouse
Bravo, Ukraine! The early success of your counter-offensive has Russians reeling and retreating. You carry our banner today in the global contest for freedom, and we need to have your back, now and rebuilding after your victory. — PolitiTweet.org
Sheldon Whitehouse @SenWhitehouse
Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the massive Project ZAP cleanup with @TourBlackstone. Grateful to all who had a hand in cleaning up the Blackstone River over the past five decades. https://t.co/QTnMhuhTNn — PolitiTweet.org
Sheldon Whitehouse @SenWhitehouse
It’s the secretly-funded flotillas of fake dark-money “amici” whose instruction the FedSoc justices so scrupulously follow (and whose secrecy they scrupulously protect). This is a pattern, to put it mildly. — PolitiTweet.org
Sheldon Whitehouse @SenWhitehouse
It’s their misalignment with “conservative” judicial principles wherever the “conservative” outcome would run contrary to those interests and desires. — PolitiTweet.org
Sheldon Whitehouse @SenWhitehouse
Don’t be fooled. It’s not that the decisions are “controversial.” It’s their perfect alignment, by the dozen, with the interests and desires of the funders of the $580 million dark-money Court-packing operation. https://t.co/KzZkvElmgG — PolitiTweet.org
Sheldon Whitehouse @SenWhitehouse
This is what the Scheme to capture SCOTUS was for: creating a captured Court amenable to extreme ideologies that serve Republican big donor interests. — PolitiTweet.org
Sheldon Whitehouse @SenWhitehouse
The extremists think they won’t need to sack the Capitol next time. Just (illegally) fix the vote in Republican state legislatures and run it up to the captured Supreme Court for a rubber stamp. Bingo — Bush v. Gore 2.0. — PolitiTweet.org
Sheldon Whitehouse @SenWhitehouse
The fringe doctrine they’re pushing first cropped up in — of all places — Bush v. Gore (three FedSoc Justices were involved in Bush v Gore, btw), but SCOTUS never adopted it. Yet three R justices (Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch) have endorsed it. — PolitiTweet.org
Sheldon Whitehouse @SenWhitehouse
And extremists like Eastman hope that it would even let them pick election winners, overriding the state’s popular vote. — PolitiTweet.org
Sheldon Whitehouse @SenWhitehouse
Under this theory, radical, gerrymandered state legislatures could try to impose almost any voting restrictions. It could end independent commissions that prevent gerrymandering and other laws that protect voting rights. — PolitiTweet.org
