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“If the Alito draft stands, . . . the court’s position as a court of law will be irretrievably damaged. The case will rank with Dred Scott and the Japanese internment cases as the greatest betrayals of ‘equal justice under law’ in the court’s history.” https://t.co/IM8omTOa2h — PolitiTweet.org

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From women now, from everyone else soon. Handmaidens to fascism, these justices. — PolitiTweet.org

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Of course they lied. Under oath. To the Senate Judiciary Committee. But perjury prosecutions aren’t remotely plausible for Alito, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, or Barrett. Each was careful enough to say nothing that could be shown beyond a reasonable doubt to have been deliberately false. — PolitiTweet.org

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“Of course the original Constitution says nothing about abortion, or about women at all. It was written in the late 18th century by a conclave of a few dozen men, all white and most wealthy, including more than a few slaveholders.” https://t.co/56zBE6mDQ7 — PolitiTweet.org

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A roadmap for the House 1/6 Committee to follow in order to get Meadows, Bannon, Navarro, and Scavino to spill the beans and tell all they know about the failed coup and the violent insurrection 👇🏼 https://t.co/LovR0hyowJ — PolitiTweet.org

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Here’s a usefully annotated version of the Alito majority’s frontal assault on all our freedoms and on an enlightened rule of law. Here’s originalism in its ugliest, most retrograde form, a form that fetishizes the darkest angels of our oppressive past: https://t.co/LUezMoxQ4L — PolitiTweet.org

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“We cannot dismiss this as anything less than a probable attack against our freedom. A uterus should not be necessary to understand this as an act of oppression.” https://t.co/7hBv7iw69z — PolitiTweet.org

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Alito’s saying abortion “is not deeply rooted in the Nation’s history and traditions” is the tell ― neither are the rights of women, Blacks or the LGBTQ community.” Same-sex marriage, civil rights, contraceptives — all are now in the Court’s crosshairs. https://t.co/yrnGfghhPm — PolitiTweet.org

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“The real issue with Twitter—and with Musk’s acquisition—relates to the business model. Like Facebook and others, Twitter uses algorithms to amplify content that increases user engagement with the platform.” That’s content from which we cannot look away. https://t.co/SOkfuWsHMj — PolitiTweet.org

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“Millions of Americans now wonder which of our rights could be stripped away from us, our friends and family, our communities. The sky is falling, and a great many of us are desperately trying to hold it up.” Rage, rage against the dying of the light! https://t.co/MkIS7vzSCb — PolitiTweet.org

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“We can expect waiting times to increase as out-of-state patients pour in. Some will have illegal abortions. Some women will end up in prison. Some, facing pregnancy complications, will see necessary treatment postponed. Some will probably die.” Dark times https://t.co/riAm2TF3kz — PolitiTweet.org

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“The substance of the opinion will do more damage to the diminishing legitimacy of the Court than the leak. And in this case, the damage to the Court is subsidiary to the damage to tens of millions of women who looked to the Constitution to protect them.” https://t.co/LlbQ2bl0vd — PolitiTweet.org

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Although the leak story is way, way less consequential than the story of what Alito’s monstrous draft opinion says and would do, it’s interesting enough to tweet about . . . briefly. So: — PolitiTweet.org

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Only in cases involving financial secrets is a leak of a SCOTUS decision minutes before it’s handed down likely to matter much. But a leak of a decision months in advance, while drafts are still flying among chambers, is another matter altogether. https://t.co/yxrkqv1CMW — PolitiTweet.org

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And they don’t deserve ever again to be returned to the Senate! — PolitiTweet.org

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Instead of “4 more years,” the battle cry should be “4 more Justices”! — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @RWPUSA: Justice Alito says he doesn't see a woman's right to choose in the Constitution. I do. What I don't see in the Constitution… — PolitiTweet.org

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On MSNBC tonight at 8:45 pm ET, NYU law professor Melissa Murray and I will be talking with @chrislhayes about the leaked Alito opinion overturning Roe v Wade. What will this decision mean to everyone going forward? Hope you can join us! — PolitiTweet.org

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My take on the Alito abomination in @GlobeOpinion: the disasters that loom are many and varied. Read about them here: https://t.co/qzRfLnUVWD — PolitiTweet.org

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Because Roberts wouldn’t join an opinion this vicious in tone even if he joins in the result, any of the 4 joining Alito has the leverage to demand changes in the language. Leaking this maximally harsh version as a trial balloon would magnify that leverage. — PolitiTweet.org

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Anyone who understands the political dynamics of the Court can offer a half dozen explanations for the Alito leak. But beware: Don’t let any softening of the language in the final version fool you. The impact will be no less brutal even if the iron fist wears a velvet glove. — PolitiTweet.org

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In Casey, the Court reasoned that even a woman’s right to bring her pregnancy to term if that’s her choice would be vulnerable if her right to terminate that pregnancy were no longer deemed to be constitutionally protected. So the Alito position isn’t pro-life. It’s anti-choice. — PolitiTweet.org

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Predictable next steps after the Alito opinion becomes law: a nationwide abortion ban, followed by a push to roll back rights to contraception, same-sex marriage, sexual privacy, and the full array of textually unenumerated rights long taken for granted. https://t.co/l1s0K8NJss — PolitiTweet.org

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If the Alito opinion savaging Roe and Casey ends up being the Opinion of the Court, it will unravel many basic rights beyond abortion and will go further than returning the issue to the states: It will enable a GOP Congress to enact a nationwide ban on abortion and contraception. — PolitiTweet.org

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This was a decision I predicted -- and, frankly, that anybody familiar with the First Amendment could have predicted. How my home town of Boston and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit could've gotten this so totally wrong baffles me. https://t.co/YkumkqOlV1 — PolitiTweet.org

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I wonder "who" might turn up as having criminally sought to procure election fraud by the officials Trump pressed to "find" him the 11,780 votes he'd have needed in order to win Georgia's electoral votes . . . — PolitiTweet.org

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Having declined to join Speaker Pelosi, the Republicans will no doubt later complain that hers was a partisan trip. They love playing the "heads, we win; tails, you lose" game. But the only people they're fooling are the fools. — PolitiTweet.org

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I share @danielsgoldman's belief that DOJ needs to investigate the entire sprawling effort to overturn the 2020 election but hope it's already doing so and in any event wouldn't want to see DOJ pushing DA Fani Willis aside; it should supplement, not supplant, her work. — PolitiTweet.org

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Why on God's green earth is Putin picking on Ireland? — PolitiTweet.org