Bill Kristol

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4....and agreeing with the three liberals that Roe is not overturned and there remains a (more limited) right to an abortion. What rationale they find for the 15 weeks is a good question, but maybe they'd simply say that seems a rational balancing test by the state legislature... — PolitiTweet.org

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3. ...but a 15 week limit also keeps over 90% of current abortions legal, so it's a fairly pro-choice outcome in practice. CJ Roberts would write the controlling middle-ground opinion for three justices, agreeing with the three conservatives that the MS law stands... — PolitiTweet.org

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2. ...when you can join CJ Roberts in a swing three-vote bloc that upholds MS's 15 week limit (with I believe an exception later for the life of the mother)? This cuts away at Roe and gives a victory to the pro-life movement... — PolitiTweet.org

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1. A speculative thought: I wonder if Ginny Thomas has helped Roe survive? Won't Justices Kavanaugh and Barrett now be more open to the idea that the Court needs to husband its institutional credibility and preserve as broad public support as possible? Why risk overturning Roe... — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @BulwarkOnline: Listen to the @BulwarkOnline Shield of the Republic! Eric and Eliot consider the first month of Russia-Ukraine War and… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @ESPNFC: NORTH MACEDONIA!!! ONE OF THE GREAT UPSETS OF ALL TIME 🤯 AS IT STANDS, ITALY ARE OUT OF THE WORLD CUP! https://t.co/DBRBcUhZC5 — PolitiTweet.org

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Evergreen tweet. — PolitiTweet.org

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The Republican Accountability Project (@AccountableGOP) approves this message. — PolitiTweet.org

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Kevin McCarthy is right. Liz Cheney IS a "special case." She takes January 6 seriously. She won't lie about the 2020 election. She says Donald Trump should not be president again. These make her special in the House Republican conference. https://t.co/J3ngERJaDg — PolitiTweet.org

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Actually, Kant's 'What is Enlightenment' provides the basis for a pretty good and straightforward argument against both Critical Race Theory and its overbearing and overly protective critics. Sapere aude! — PolitiTweet.org

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It's one thing to be intrigued by authoritarian visions when one lives in a liberal society, sees its problems, and compares it to an imaginary alternative. It's another thing in 2022 to look at Putin's Russia, Xi's China, Syria, and Iran and decide "I'm on Team Authoritarian." — PolitiTweet.org

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"Hawley’s statements shows how the semi-respectable face of conservatism is reaching out to QAnon by incorporating it’s themes and beliefs. It is signaling with denial plausibility. And it’s not just Hawley." https://t.co/yK95f0flKR — PolitiTweet.org

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Well, I'm sure other Republican attorneys general, the Republican senators on the Judiciary committee, etc., will hasten to establish that their party isn't truly refusing to state that President Biden is the duly elected and lawful president of the United States. — PolitiTweet.org

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Mo Brooks on the morning of 1/6: “Start taking down names and kicking ass!” “Are you willing to do what it takes to fight for America!" "The fight begins today!” Not a lot then about choosing the Constitution, peacefully accepting the result of the election, etc. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @bensiegel: .@MoBrooks now talking on-camera about Trump asking him to 'remove' Joe Biden from office. "He always brings up, 'We've go… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @TDISportsClips: March 24, 2001: RIP Bird. https://t.co/WOkYSpdaDb — PolitiTweet.org

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"As God is my witness, these are words I never thought I would write: Too crazy for Mo Brooks. But what Trump was asking was too unconstitutional, too illegal, too undemocratic, too coup-like, and too insane…even for Mo Brooks." https://t.co/tttzranmLC — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @BulwarkOnline: The left should soften its dogmatism, and the right should abandon its cruelty. @monacharen on why Trans Politics Need… — PolitiTweet.org

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For all the problems afflicting liberalism now and perhaps always, I'm truly happy to be on the side of Biden against Trump, Zelensky against Putin, Ketanji Brown Jackson against Ted Cruz, and the old defenders and improvers of liberalism against the new Carl Schmitt wannabes. — PolitiTweet.org

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...watch or listen to the whole thing: https://t.co/qCAyffauwq — PolitiTweet.org

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Aaron Friedberg discussed the danger of aggressors believing "they can use force at lower levels, secure in the knowledge that we are so concerned about escalation, that we won't respond...This is not a new problem, this is something that we dealt with throughout the cold war..." https://t.co/rLYMqvPBW2 — PolitiTweet.org

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In light of this, here's Stephen Rosen's must-read piece from yesterday: https://t.co/zleHLYuqeL https://t.co/sJCHSj2TWN — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @BillKristol: Decline is a choice. The Republican Party and the conservative movement chose it. — PolitiTweet.org

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I'm more of an opera/symphony/piano concerto kind of guy, leaving chamber music to more refined tastes--but wonderful chamber music at Kennedy Center last night, with two Brahms pieces and Ellen Taaffe Zwilich's moving new work, Abgang and Kaddish for Piano Trio and Clarinet. — PolitiTweet.org

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"Hers was an eventful and largely successful tenure as secretary of state—and one got the sense that she enjoyed virtually every minute of it. The refugee who fled totalitarianism became an avatar of democracy." https://t.co/A8VJqnqqs3 — PolitiTweet.org

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Decline is a choice. The Republican Party and the conservative movement chose it. — PolitiTweet.org

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"The time to deter an aggressor isn’t in the period when they finally start amassing troops on the border. You practice deterrence years ahead of the conflict and you do it by spending money and developing plans and postures to deal with aggression." https://t.co/9vNrjdheMD — PolitiTweet.org

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"By deterring ourselves and declaring ourselves deterred, we risk creating a protected domain in which the Russians can do more and more themselves with a certain knowledge that we're not going to intervene. We have to at least introduce some doubt..." https://t.co/qCAyff9WGS https://t.co/EXjYw88M9m — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @JuliaDavisNews: Every program I watched today on Russian state TV had a clip of Tucker Carlson bashing Ukraine. #TuckyoRose https://t.… — PolitiTweet.org

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2. I don't think so. Why not? Because today the Republican Party has been shaped by Donald Trump. Trump corrupts; supporting Trump corrupts; and many Republican senators have been corrupted by Trump. I'll also observe that Ketanji Brown Jackson doesn't look like Elena Kagan. END — PolitiTweet.org