James Hohmann

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RT @joshrogin: "Roughly 20 firms are registered to lobby for Saudi interests, compared with more than 25 before Khashoggi’s death." Disgrac… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @badler: "the balance of power is changing on the courts each week to become more favorable to Trump," via @jameshohmann https://t.co/H2… — PolitiTweet.org

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NEW: Trump pushed Acosta to hold news conference about how he handled Epstein case. And House Democrats want Acosta to testify in 2 weeks. By @seungminkim @damianpaletta @Reinlwapo @jdawsey1 https://t.co/8po5F1xUjn — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @FrancesSSellers: Trump might win a Pyrrhic victory against Obamacare, as the balance of judicial power shifts his way. @jameshohmann w/… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @pw_cunningham: The Trump appointee on the 3-judge panel hearing O-care arguments yesterday was the most outspoken -- reflecting the hug… — PolitiTweet.org

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The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, the Democratic Attorneys General Association and the Democrat-affiliated group Protect Our Care launched hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of print and digital ads around the country. https://t.co/UuQSaEKoed — PolitiTweet.org

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3) The House Oversight Committee will hold a hearing this morning dubbed "The Trump Administration's Attack on the ACA." House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) said he's also planning a hearing on the lawsuit. — PolitiTweet.org

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2) Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), who cast a key vote for the tax bill that could be used as a pretext by judicial activists to repeal Obamacare, keeps trying to distance herself from the lawsuit trying to throw out the ACA and put out a statement saying Trump should defend it. — PolitiTweet.org

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Here are three telling illustrations of how the 5th Circuit could hand Trump a Pyrrhic victory: 1) Despite a decade of efforts to kill Obamacare, Mitch McConnell refused to say yesterday whether he supports the suit to invalidate the law. https://t.co/rlEducYKud — PolitiTweet.org

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If Trump gets what he’s hoping for in New Orleans, there’s a strong argument to be made that the president will be like the proverbial dog that catches up with the truck. https://t.co/rlEducYKud — PolitiTweet.org

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2 of the three judges on the panel expressed skepticism during arguments that Obamacare can remain intact. Judge Kurt Engelhardt, whom Trump put on the bench just last year, was the more outspoken of the two. He grilled Democratic lawyers because the DOJ won't defend the law. — PolitiTweet.org

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But the balance of power is changing on the courts each week to become more favorable to Trump, and it sure sounded like the 5th Circuit might be ready to uphold a district judge’s decision that the entire 2010 health-care law is unconstitutional. https://t.co/ycXg89JCt3 — PolitiTweet.org

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Separately, an appellate court in New York upheld a lower court’s decision that it is unconstitutional for Trump to block critics on Twitter because he’s a public official who uses the platform to communicate with constituents. https://t.co/Mb4g2yVwhU — PolitiTweet.org

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For now, Trump continues to suffer legal setbacks. In a case involving his push to add a citizenship question to the 2020 Census, a district court judge rejected the Justice Department’s request to change out its team of lawyers. https://t.co/3UUoFp33k9 — PolitiTweet.org

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Oral arguments in New Orleans over the future of the ACA foreshadowed the massive impact that President Trump’s free rein to fill the courts with like-minded judges will probably have on American jurisprudence over the next generation. https://t.co/rlEducYKud — PolitiTweet.org

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The Daily 202: Trump might win a Pyrrhic victory against Obamacare, as the balance of judicial power shifts his way. https://t.co/rlEducYKud — PolitiTweet.org

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Alex Acosta says new evidence was uncovered recently about sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Others say that evidence was there all along – Acosta just didn’t pursue it. By @WPJohnWagner @Reinlwapo https://t.co/w9IkHpR9Ke — PolitiTweet.org

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A strip club is hosting a charity golf tournament at one of Trump’s South Florida resorts, via @Fahrenthold https://t.co/yCWDTjFeq6 — PolitiTweet.org

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@bononymous Thank you, Bonnie! — PolitiTweet.org

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@jmartNYT @harrispolitico @peterbakernyt And a star of The Perfect Candidate! — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @joanegreve: "@ShopFloorNAM launches a $10 million campaign ahead of 2020 to make manufacturing jobs more appealing," @jameshohmann repo… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @postpolitics: The Daily 202: NAM launches a $10 million campaign ahead of 2020 to make manufacturing jobs more appealing https://t.co/3… — PolitiTweet.org

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The Daily 202: NAM launches a $10 million campaign ahead of 2020 to make manufacturing jobs more appealing https://t.co/rxAsltTOvP — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @jdawsey1: There was no substantial vetting done on Acosta until after Trump decided to nominate him, according to current and former ad… — PolitiTweet.org

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Epstein indictment renews scrutiny of Labor secretary Alexander Acosta, who as U.S. attorney negotiated a plea deal for the multimillionaire viewed as lenient, via @ReinLWapo @PostKranish @jdawsey1 https://t.co/aSfchBPqyX — PolitiTweet.org

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House Democrats have little recourse here, unless they're willing to hold Donaldson — who is unable to travel because she is v pregnant — in civil contempt and take her to court to try to get a judge to force her to answer questions over the objections of White House officials. — PolitiTweet.org

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But administration attorneys kept Donaldson from elaborating on Trump’s stated worries that Sessions’s recusal would leave him exposed in the Russia investigation. In her notes she had written “No contact w/Sessions” and “No comms/Serious concerns about obstruction.” — PolitiTweet.org

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Donaldson did confirm several events in the Mueller report, including that White House lawyers ordered that Attorney General Jeff Sessions should not be contacted by anyone in the White House about his decision to recuse himself. https://t.co/TuHeuqycA3 — PolitiTweet.org

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Annie Donaldson affirmed that she too intended to resign in June 2017 after Don McGahn told her he was making plans to resign rather than follow through with a directive from Trump that made him uncomfortable. Ultimately, they stayed when he let it drop. https://t.co/TuHeuqycA3 — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump's lawyers BLOCKED Annie Donaldson from elaborating on her thinking at the time she captured several exchanges between Trump & McGahn — including the note in which she scribbled concern that Trump firing Comey would trigger the end of his presidency. https://t.co/TuHeuqycA3 — PolitiTweet.org