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@jowilson8888 @JoyceWhiteVance @BarbMcQuade May be time toencourage DOJ to bring a civil rights case for those with uteruses denied their constitutional rights. RT if you agree. — PolitiTweet.org

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@Meidas_RayRay @JoyceWhiteVance @KimberlyEAtkins @BarbMcQuade I read the transcript and I was unclear. Meant I used to be embarrassed to talk about undergarments, but as I age, I'm not anymore and that I also now talk to strangers in elevators -- usually about liking something they are wearing and making them and me happy. — PolitiTweet.org

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@Robin2xHoo @JoyceWhiteVance @BarbMcQuade @KimberlyEAtkins Thank you. So much bad news this week, which is why we ended dancing to #ABBA (which us midwesterners mispronounce as @BarbMcQuade noted). — PolitiTweet.org

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@JuliaRingma @KimberlyEAtkins @BarbMcQuade @JoyceWhiteVance It's definitely not pro-life of any woman! — PolitiTweet.org

Jill Wine-Banks @JillWineBanks

@HeatherMcgrew @KimberlyEAtkins @JoyceWhiteVance @BarbMcQuade It was our athlete: @BarbMcQuade — PolitiTweet.org

Jill Wine-Banks @JillWineBanks

We can have self-government or we can have rule by judge, but we cannot have both. — PolitiTweet.org

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The shadow docket aside, the extent to which political outcomes in America rest on the opaque machinations of a cloistered, nine-member clique is the clearest possible sign that we’ve given too much power to this institution. ... — PolitiTweet.org

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having to that extent practically resigned their government into the hands of that eminent tribunal.”... — PolitiTweet.org

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“if the policy of the government upon vital questions affecting the whole people is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court,” then the people “will have ceased to be their own rulers, ... — PolitiTweet.org

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One last thing. In his first Inaugural Address, delivered almost four years to the day after the court’s decision in Dred Scott v. Sanford, Abraham Lincoln warned that ... — PolitiTweet.org

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“This power in the judicial will enable them to mould the government into almost any shape they please,” wrote “Brutus” in a January 1788 essay. The majority in the Texas case, three-fifths of it appointed by President Donald Trump, seems intent on proving Brutus’s point. ... — PolitiTweet.org

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with hardly any justification other than its own power to do so. Antifederalist opponents of the Constitution feared that the judiciary’s expansive power would consume all others: — PolitiTweet.org

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The court’s abuse of the shadow docket is in that category: ... actions that threaten to place the rule of men over the rule of law. It’s not that the court is political — that is to be expected — but that its conservative majority is acting in arbitrary, secretive ways, ... — PolitiTweet.org

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in response to the intransigence of conservative justices: “We want a Supreme Court which will do justice under the Constitution and not over it. In our courts we want a government of laws and not of men.” The court’s abuse of the shadow docket is in that category: ... — PolitiTweet.org

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transparently and in good faith. It rests, as well, on the idea of the court as a partner in governance and a safeguard for the rights of the American people. Or, as Franklin Roosevelt said in a 1937 “fireside chat” on his plan to restructure the Supreme Court... — PolitiTweet.org

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It is common enough knowledge that the Supreme Court’s power to shape American society is a function not so much of its formal power under the Constitution as it is of its popular legitimacy. And much of that legitimacy rests on the idea that the court is acting fairly, ... — PolitiTweet.org

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the court has essentially nullified the constitutional rights of millions of American women without so much as an argument...This isn’t judicial review as much as it is a raw exercise of judicial power. ... — PolitiTweet.org

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.@jbouie said so much so powerfully that I'm starting a thread with some of his best lines, but recommend reading the whole piece re SCOTUS threat to our rights and its loss of credibility. https://t.co/Kqki8aZDm6 — PolitiTweet.org

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@spacecadetusa1 Here is the video for Thursday’s episode. https://t.co/VpKmJjZXNN My segment starts around the 29 minute mark of the video. — PolitiTweet.org

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#SistersInLaw will get your blood boiling as we discuss SCOTUS nullifying women's rights, the Theranos case (and ridiculous defense that might work), and Sirhan Sirhan's release (we all oppose it), but then calm you with #TheDancingQueen. LISTEN & FOLLOW: https://t.co/IOS5zQ2MQF https://t.co/TpkqRLVjw8 — PolitiTweet.org

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@LaurieTrth2Powr @BarbMcQuade @JoyceWhiteVance @KimberlyEAtkins That's our aim! TY. — PolitiTweet.org

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@jowilson8888 @JoyceWhiteVance @BarbMcQuade Why look further than Roe and Casey? They are the law of the land now and TX law violates them. — PolitiTweet.org

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A good start. Increase voter registration. But then need a Drive-to-Vote tool on election day(s), and once Republicans are voted out, must repeal voters suppression laws. — PolitiTweet.org

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The best summary of SCOTUS Texas decision in a picture. — PolitiTweet.org

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Texas judge hands narrow win to abortion providers fighting new 6-week ban https://t.co/VAwHVkbmEM — PolitiTweet.org

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@holymackere That's false. They are barred from being bounty hunters under the new TX law — PolitiTweet.org

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@melodyisdestiny @KnightswhosayN2 The defendant if he or she loses pays the $10,000 — PolitiTweet.org

Jill Wine-Banks @JillWineBanks

@spacecadetusa1 I'll try to get a link from.@StephMillerShow to post here. — PolitiTweet.org

Jill Wine-Banks @JillWineBanks

It will be — PolitiTweet.org

Jill Wine-Banks @JillWineBanks

@Faythless @StephMillerShow Thank you. — PolitiTweet.org