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@EarlOfEnough Here is my point. Dianne Feinstein is in on the Judiciary Committee and she doesn’t know what fucking year it is. Does that help you understand the point? The 80 and 90 year olds that are sitting atop the Democratic Party are LOSING. How about that? Understand that ? — PolitiTweet.org

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8/lost? It was in 2008 when McCain took them head on and won the Republican nomination. It was their last defeat. McCain came incredibly close to picking a pro choice nominee. I did everything I could to make that happen. It is a true tragedy it didn’t. — PolitiTweet.org

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7/or whether he prayed. He answered with, “There have been times in my life where I’ve prayed to make it through the next two fucking seconds” He got up and walked out. I was never prouder. There is a question that bears asking. When was the last time the Limbaugh wing of the GOP — PolitiTweet.org

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6/hucksters and charlatans that have long been part of the GOP always made my skin crawl. One of the greatest moments of my political career was witnessing John McCain in a meeting answer the question of the interrogator in front of him who doubted whether he was a “Christian” — PolitiTweet.org

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5/are pragmatic, accommodate disagreement, complexity and reality. When it comes to personal freedom my bent is libertarian. I’m more of a Willie Nelson guy than a Preaching Bill Bennett guy. Live and let live. I would never vote for a motorcycle helmet law. The religious — PolitiTweet.org

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4/ One thing is clear. There is no room whatsoever in the GOP for anyone who believes that women should have agency over their bodies, gay marriage is as sacrosanct as any other marriage union or that contraception is between a woman and a doctor. Lastly, my political beliefs — PolitiTweet.org

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3/Commitment to making policy and law as opposed to interpreting it. This was the criticism conservatives offered towards judicial liberals which was that they were in the wrong branch of government if they wanted to write laws. That was a job for Legislators. — PolitiTweet.org

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2/Conservatives have long argued it is inappropriate to ask or answer questions at confirmation hearings about abortion under the rule that it would prejudice a Justice in a future case. Now @baseballcrank is arguing that was a ruse. Part of a kabuki to disguise the political — PolitiTweet.org

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1/👇 Below is how far gone the philosophy of Judicial conservatism is. He’s a Judge, not a senate candidate. There is a difference between a Justice and a Judge. Stare Decisis matters and lower court rulings aren’t preludes of the next decision. — PolitiTweet.org

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The politics around Dred Scott and Alito’s opinion is more comparable in my view. Taney wanted to settle the issue but instead helped precipitate Civil War. The die was cast. Learned all about it @UDelaware which is like the @Stanford of Delaware without the Theranos. — PolitiTweet.org

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We haven’t met but I am familiar. I think it is appalling and a national stain but different than the draft Alito opinion. Dred Scott was an antebellum decision. Abortion has been an unambiguously protected right for 48 years. The stripping of such a right is unprecedented. — PolitiTweet.org

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Jurisprudential history. We have a growing, ascending and merging fascist and theocratic movement in America filled with people who hate American freedom. A lot of them have National Review on their resumes. This isn’t about abortion. It’s about control. That’s what I oppose. — PolitiTweet.org

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then there was a difference between judicial Conservatism and Radicalism. That moment was 10 years before National Review wrote its NEVER TRUMP cover which was 6 years ago. Much has happened since. This Alito draft is one of the most radical opinions written in American — PolitiTweet.org

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never ever be in the room where a Supreme Court nominee is being prepared. I promise you this. When Alito was being prepped 100 💯 percent of the people involved thought he was a main stream conservative jurist who would never obliterate an established precedent because back — PolitiTweet.org

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Extremists, nuts and fanatics. I have never agreed with all of the positions of a candidate I worked for. Who did until Trump? I live in America not the Reich. Also; my views were informed by a small c conservatism which was that precedent would matter. For sure, you will — PolitiTweet.org

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This deserves a response. I was always a pro choice, pro civil rights moderate that felt completely comfortable in the Republican Party. Jacob Javitz, Tom Kean, Christie Whitman, Jack Kemp were the people I was drawn towards. Obviously, today, the party is filled with liars, — PolitiTweet.org

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Must Read if you are interested in the politics of fighting back. The dynamics may doom @RonJohnsonWI in Wisconsin. The 22 races are going to be shaped by this 👇 — PolitiTweet.org

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Read this for an understanding of how deeply and historically radical this Alito opinion is and the consequences for what comes next. This isn’t about abortion. It’s about control and power. This reads like the preamble to Gileads Constitution. — PolitiTweet.org

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@Globalgallop Absolutely. 100 percent. It is coming. We have already seen it, but at the edge. It will move in from that edge and it will ignite. The US Civil War was the first Industrial Age War. It was apocalyptic. It won’t be that but it will be bad. Think OK City but worse and more — PolitiTweet.org

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@socflyny It means that established rights are ALL on the table unless they are explicitly protected by Constitutional Amendment — PolitiTweet.org

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6/ will realign American politics. We are at a big moment in American life. The reverberations from the radical pen of a single man with a life time appointment will be thunderous. That thunder will be nothing compared to the sound of the response from the American people. — PolitiTweet.org

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5/ interracial marriage are all tested and attacked. The only way to stop this is by building massive political operations in the States where rights will be stripped. Voting is the last line of defense. It will mean participation at every level of election in America. This fight — PolitiTweet.org

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4/ come. The Radical Justices have the ball. They have set a devastating precedent and it isn’t judicial. It is political. It is about Taking, punishing and controlling. The precedent at hand is this; Welcome to the era where established rights from voting to gay marriage to — PolitiTweet.org

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3/private meetings with US Senators and private preparation sessions were completely hollow. I believe the confirmation process left the man humiliated, aggrieved and angry. This is the payback. Like Clarence Thomas another aggrieved radical, Alito will be stewing for years to — PolitiTweet.org

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2/ The argument over granting a right is materially different than the debate over stripping a right. Before the right exists, it doesn’t. After it exists, it does. This is what is so radical about this. Alito’s words about his commitment to precedent during his 2006 hearings, — PolitiTweet.org

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The Abortion Debate of 1973 and 2022 are completely different. Before 1973 there was no right to abortion. It didn’t exist. How did it come to exist? The Supreme Court declared it a right. That right has stood for 48 years and now it will be obliterated and stripped. — PolitiTweet.org

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@AllisonStiles9 I will dare because it is true. — PolitiTweet.org

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employees and consumers. Every company @JuddLegum listed is funding this extremism while patting its employees and consumers on the proverbial head like they were idiots. Companies do this because they get away with it. — PolitiTweet.org

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and use the coercive power of the State to regulate Women’s medical agency and personhood also releases statements about Women’s equality and celebrates all the corporate Women’s Day events. These companies are fear based operators. They are more afraid of politicians than their — PolitiTweet.org

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Every company that funds the Members of Congress that voted to throw out millions of black votes also celebrates Black History Month and put out George Floyd statements. Every company that funds Members of Congress and State Legislators who are going to try and ban contraception — PolitiTweet.org