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4 former Sec’ys of Homeland Security, R and D (Tom Ridge, Michael Chertoff, Janet Napolitano, and Jeh Johnson), have called on @GSAEmily to “ascertain” the “apparent” winner now: “At this period of heightened risk, we do not have a single day to spare to begin the transition.” — PolitiTweet.org

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.@ThePlumLineGS and I agree: For @GSAEmily to “ascertain” Biden as the “apparent successful candidate,” in the language of the Presidential Transition Act, would help, not hurt, Republicans and Trumpsters. That’s what might motivate them even if the national interest won’t. — PolitiTweet.org

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All @GSAEmily needs to acknowledge is what @MittRomney noted yesterday: “There’s a very likely prospect that there will be a change in administration.” Clearly enough to trigger a smooth transition to the “apparent” winner. Trump can still call it fake news as long as he wants to — PolitiTweet.org

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Senator @marcorubio was right on Monday: “We need to have that contingency in place. Allowing the GSA to [tigger] the transition work doesn’t prejudice any of the legal claims the president intends to make.” So @GSAEmily shouldn’t hesitate to call Biden the “apparent” winner. — PolitiTweet.org

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What do Trump & GOP have to GAIN by letting Murphy trigger a smooth transition? They can deprive us in 2024 of the argument that failures (if any) during Biden’s first 100 days were caused by their refusal to issue the “ascertainment” needed to get the transition going. — PolitiTweet.org

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Memo to Trump supporters: Your guy could authorize GSA Administrator Murphy to trigger the transition without losing face by conceding the election or dropping the lawsuits you believe will eventually show him to have won. If you’re right, you and Trump have nothing to lose. — PolitiTweet.org

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https://t.co/a2SvEbKP06 — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

As he watches his power ebb, Trump’s nuclear trigger finger will get increasingly itchy. A last-minute strike, cyber or hot, is my biggest fear at the moment. https://t.co/DhX3nMU8j0 — PolitiTweet.org

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“More people may die, if we don't coordinate,” @JoeBiden said on Sunday. Trump is prepared to watch Americans die needlessly just to avoid a smooth transition to the January 20 transfer of power. It’s the moral equivalent of murder. https://t.co/e7v80W5BJY — PolitiTweet.org

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“Georgia’s Republican secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger, said he has come under increasing pressure from fellow Republicans to exclude ballots in an effort to reverse Trump’s loss there.” https://t.co/YZNi5FLD5D — PolitiTweet.org

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Robert O’Brien’s days as Trump’s latest National Security Adviser are numbered — unless Trump himself can finally read the handwriting on the wall https://t.co/oxnVVlxaip — PolitiTweet.org

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I argued the first of the two Bush v. Gore cases against Ted Olson — it was the one Gore didn’t lose — and I agree this is totally different: Biden’s win in 2020 won’t be overturned by any court. It’s legally invulnerable, whatever lawsuits get filed. https://t.co/JnDDbGlALe — PolitiTweet.org

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A spitting image . . . literally! 🌬 https://t.co/3ErYcEcZCO — PolitiTweet.org

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Don’t be surprised if Trump turns on his lawyers for dropping these dumb lawsuits. No doubt he’s beside himself with anger that they’re tossing in the towel. He’ll probably refuse to pay their bill. Come to think of it, when does he ever pay his bills? https://t.co/1Th7MVb5iX — PolitiTweet.org

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This case is a more likely source of enduring harm from the current Court than most people realize. Watch this space. — PolitiTweet.org

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.@BarackObama: “The degree to which these companies are insisting they are more like a phone company than they are like The Atlantic, I do not think is tenable...The First Amendment doesn't require private companies to provide a platform for any view that is out there.” Right! — PolitiTweet.org

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So have over 78 million Americans — PolitiTweet.org

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There’s no known root canal technique that works to correct truth decay — PolitiTweet.org

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Awesome! Brilliant! Rad! — PolitiTweet.org

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Right. It’s like hobbling the runner who’s supposed to pick up the baton in a relay race against a deadly enemy — PolitiTweet.org

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Exactly! — PolitiTweet.org

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Part of the Trump administration’s motive for delaying the “ascertainment” that triggers the transition to a Biden administration is to cripple its successor, but the other part is to delay discovery of its shocking ineptitude and inexplicable inactivity — PolitiTweet.org

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The team that couldn’t sue straight — PolitiTweet.org

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So encouraging! https://t.co/dfQPYI375O — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

“America is the first real experiment in building a large, multiethnic, multicultural democracy. And we don’t know yet if that can hold.” https://t.co/uGJcj2ZcAm — PolitiTweet.org

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“You know how they say listening to Mozart aligns your brain cells in useful ways? That’s [everyone’s] experience in bringing the gnarliest problems to Ron,” one of the most brilliant law students I ever taught. He’s taught me more than I ever taught him. https://t.co/5QGE9b6a8F — PolitiTweet.org

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Sorry, I meant 1-19, though it’s now 1-20. — PolitiTweet.org

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“For much of Trump’s reëlection campaign, he made clear that if he lost he would say that he was robbed & would seek victory in the courts. Trump’s gambit was a variant of election-manipulation schemes familiar in countries like Pakistan and Belarus.” https://t.co/lyVwccWjLY — PolitiTweet.org

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0-20 — PolitiTweet.org

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Tick tock — PolitiTweet.org