Sen. Patrick Leahy

Sen. Patrick Leahy @SenatorLeahy

This is just a sampling of the more than **300 lawsuits** that have been filed arising out of mostly COVID-related election disputes. https://t.co/G1WDhOKY8a — PolitiTweet.org

Sen. Patrick Leahy @SenatorLeahy

Exhibit G: Rs in AZ tried to prevent extension for officials to remedy unsigned ballots up to 5 days after election. Nearly 80% of AZ voters cast ballots each election by mail, & this deadline extension is a small burden to ensure that their voices are heard. — PolitiTweet.org

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Exhibit F: Amid concerns of armed militias intimidating voters at the polls, a MI judge overturned an order that would have restricted open carry of firearms at polling places on Election Day. — PolitiTweet.org

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Exhibit E: Rs in TX have limited each county to a single drop-off box for mailed ballots. In some counties that means one box for literally millions of voters and their ballots. — PolitiTweet.org

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Exhibit D: With the help of SCOTUS, Rs in WI blocked a deadline extension that would have allowed ballots postmarked by Election Day and received up to 6 days after from being counted. — PolitiTweet.org

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Exhibit C: Rs in NC, like in PA, just suffered a setback at SCOTUS following their attempt to prevent a deadline extension for mail-in ballots postmarked by Election Day. — PolitiTweet.org

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Exhibit B: Trump campaign trying to block NV from mailing absentee ballots to every registered voter in the middle of a global pandemic. — PolitiTweet.org

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Exhibit A: Rs in PA just suffered a setback at SCOTUS following their repeated efforts to prevent legitimately cast ballots postmarked by the election and received within 3 days of the election from being counted. — PolitiTweet.org

Sen. Patrick Leahy @SenatorLeahy

Days from an historic election, Republicans are doing everything they can to prevent Americans from participating in it. They’re waging an all-out war on voting in courts across the country. A THREAD: — PolitiTweet.org

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My paid #internship program provides an opportunity to experience the legislative process at work, while becoming an integral part of the staff. My Vermont office is accepting applications through 11/15. Learn more HERE: https://t.co/aQb0OqnZvX — PolitiTweet.org

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Make no mistake: Safeguarding the independence of our Justice Department, maintaining the integrity of our foreign policy, preventing shameless corruption — everything is on the line. — PolitiTweet.org

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Just unreal: A Turkish bank facilitates a multibillion $$$ scheme to evade Iranian sanctions. The Trump admin—under pressure from Turkey, & with the President making millions from personal business in Turkey—tried for years to undermine the investigation. https://t.co/pdhamFAkM6 — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @vtdigger: Kavanaugh’s claim about Vermont came as the U.S. Supreme Court decided to quash a court order in Wisconsin that would have al… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @SenatorDurbin: President Trump wants to turn Voice of America into his own state-run propaganda machine like other autocrats he admires… — PolitiTweet.org

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TRANSLATION: I, President Trump, don't want thousands upon thousands of Americans to have their legitimately cast votes counted because I'm too afraid to accept the results of our democracy… I'd expect these words from an autocrat. Not from an American President. — PolitiTweet.org

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Once again, the Trump Admin is putting corporate profits over people and our environment. I’m a proud cosponsor of the Roadless Area Conservation Act led by @SenatorCantwell, which would #ProtectTheTongass and other publicly owned wild places like it. — PolitiTweet.org

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This reckless decision not only ignores climate change, opening the nation's largest carbon sink to destructive logging and development. It also completely ignores the public. More than 95% of public comments OPPOSED stripping protections from @TongassNF. https://t.co/pV1sLjaSrY — PolitiTweet.org

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Under the law of recusal, the decision may be hers, but she really has no choice: Justice Barrett MUST recuse. — PolitiTweet.org

Sen. Patrick Leahy @SenatorLeahy

RT @AJCongress: Today we remember the victims of the deadly #Antisemitic attack in Pittsburgh's #TreeofLife Synagogue. Our hearts go out to… — PolitiTweet.org

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Important to get the facts right, ESPECIALLY when invoking them in a decision to suppress the vote. As @VermontSoS has pointed out, VT actually authorized automatic mailing of ballots to ALL registered voters, which WAS a change to its election procedures during the pandemic. — PolitiTweet.org

Sen. Patrick Leahy @SenatorLeahy

The Republican argument boils down to this: we have the power, so ANYTHING goes. But might doesn't make right. Justice Ginsburg would have dissented against this raw, shameless power grab. I will, too. https://t.co/f2jv9vLM8r — PolitiTweet.org

Sen. Patrick Leahy @SenatorLeahy

Republicans are waging an ALL-OUT WAR on voting rights in the courts, and there's NO QUESTION they view Judge Barrett as an ally in their scheme to suppress the vote. https://t.co/R2ysuL9Y4S — PolitiTweet.org

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Republicans have been ACTIVELY, OBSESSIVELY seeking to kill the #ACA for a decade. They’ve failed each time. But they think that will change w/ Barrett on the Court for a Republican-led lawsuit to overturn the ACA on Nov. 10. https://t.co/XmaTwOGEEM — PolitiTweet.org

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This process has been illegitimate since the day Republicans celebrated Judge Barrett’s nomination at a Rose Garden ceremony BEFORE Justice Ginsburg was even buried. Then, and until now, Republicans’ masks have been off. I will vote NO on this nomination. https://t.co/94KXDNPjtD — PolitiTweet.org

Sen. Patrick Leahy @SenatorLeahy

Republicans’ masks are off in more ways than one. Rs are hell bent on ramming thru this nom b/c they are HELL BENT on stripping millions of Americans of their health care & hard-fought rights. Justice Ginsburg would have dissented. I will too & will vote NO. My statement: https://t.co/deUaGevBCI — PolitiTweet.org

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Heading to the Senate Floor to give my closing argument, “The Masks Are Off,” in the debate on the Barrett/SCOTUS nomination. LIVE, C-SPAN2. — PolitiTweet.org

Sen. Patrick Leahy @SenatorLeahy

RT @SenateAgDems: Last month, USDA inexplicably chose to decrease eligibility for COVID-19 relief available to dairy farmers. Today, @SenSt… — PolitiTweet.org

Sen. Patrick Leahy @SenatorLeahy

In his obsession to twist our govt to benefit him personally, Pres. Trump is now attacking the idea of a professional Civil Service, which dates back 100 years to the time of Vermonter Pres. Chester Arthur. We must stand up for Federal Employees serving America, not Trump. — PolitiTweet.org

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Sen. Patrick Leahy @SenatorLeahy

This is NOT business as usual. No matter the odds, we need to keep fighting and be clear about what’s at stake with this #SCOTUS nomination. Healthcare, voting, Roe, LGBTQ equality, the environment, so much more—we cannot turn the clock back DECADES on these hard-earned rights. https://t.co/dYuYOd6zCO — PolitiTweet.org