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[Neal Katyal @neal_katyal]

It’s a win for Trump. At the same time, remember that the Supreme Court’s decision today did not do what Donald Trump had asked: clear him of insurrection. The Colorado court found that he so was, and Trump had an entire section of his SCOTUS brief arguing he was peaceful on 1/6. The Court didn’t do what he asked; it did not clear him. And the act’s decision leaves space for his criminal trial about Jan 6 to proceed, should the Court dispose of the other Trump immunity case quickly in the Spring (as it can and must). The Court took 25 days to render this decision. Anything longer in the immunity case would be deeply inconsistent with what it did here.

[Left Of Main Street (@leftofmainst.bsky.social) @LeftOfMainSt]

@kylegriffin1 If SCOTUS wants the American people to decide elections then get rid of the Electoral College!

[Twiggy @JillJessMom]

@MichaelOyewole_ @kylegriffin1 He’ll be sentenced to 5 months at Rikers. Not sure why this man keeps going to prison to protect Donald Trump. He’s a fool, a thief and a liar —and so is Weisselberg.
Hopefully Donald will spend some quality time at Rikers sometime soon.

[Twiggy @JillJessMom]

@WORLDDEBT @tribelaw I was w/you until AI.
Biden must take steps to regain public trust in SCOTUS:
—Impeach Thomas
—Add 2 permanent seats for Biden to fill
—Adopt term & age limits
—Enact binding ethical stds
—Appoint new Chief Justice re JR’s failures: CT, ethics stds & wife’s job conflict of int.

[Laurence Tribe 🇺🇦 ⚖️ @tribelaw]

Justice Barrett told us what “message Americans should take home” from today’s ruling that, even if Trump’s role in the insurrection we just barely survived disqualifies him under the Constitution from ever holding office again, only congressional legislation under Sec 5 of the 14th Amendment can implement that absolutely vital ban.

The message Barrett tells us to “take home” from that fiat is that we should just chill because all 9 justices agreed that Colorado overstepped what any one state should’ve been able to do.

I’ll discuss that point later, but for now I’d stress what Justices Sotomayor, Kagan, and Jackson rightly reminded Justice Barrett and Chief Justice Roberts about: as Roberts rightly wrote in Dobbs, the Court should avoid deciding any more than it needs to decide when ruling on a case.

To reach out and resolve in advance all sorts of issues that might arise in the future is to take on the role of a super-legislature, not a court of law.

[Twiggy @JillJessMom]

@magrampip @JoyceWhiteVance 2/ There was a gang initiation shortly after we moved there to kill a white mother & her kids that was concerning. Hubby was less than thrilled. But the work was rewarding, I took on juvenile cases as I had done earlier. There were a lot of great people doing difficult work.

[Twiggy @JillJessMom]

@magrampip @JoyceWhiteVance That was mostly generally understood back then but some smaller time gangs don’t follow those principles or had to learn them. Being an alt to PD we were/are appreciated so I’ve never felt unsafe. Can’t say the same in Memphis, although nothing happened, but it felt …heavy. 1/

[Twiggy @JillJessMom]

@magrampip @JoyceWhiteVance Of course.

[Twiggy @JillJessMom]

@magrampip @JoyceWhiteVance Armstrong left in 2016 to head safety & security at St. Jude’s Hospital. He deserved it after having a target on his back while he cleaned up the dept. Now, they have a lot of work to do, again. The open corruption was normal, ie mayor & pols under FBI invest., “no biggie”.😳

[Twiggy @JillJessMom]

@magrampip @JoyceWhiteVance Sounds like some Memphis PD antics, let’s just say I was not surprised by what’s been happening there. Toney Armstrong cleaned house when he was chief but when he left it went right back to a cesspool. I miss our friends there but was happy to move back to the Midwest.

[Twiggy @JillJessMom]

@magrampip @JoyceWhiteVance 🤦‍♀️

[Twiggy @JillJessMom]

@magrampip @JoyceWhiteVance We had plenty of gang activity but not mafia, at least in cases we got, keep in mind we were NGO alt. to PD. But he shared some pretty hairy situations from his days in Chicago. I brought him on when I was a county prosecutor. A good investigator is worth their weight in gold.

[Twiggy @JillJessMom]

@magrampip @DonLew87 No one is saying, but I bet his views on abortion changed the millisecond he found out she was pregnant. It’s disgusting that these politicians prey upon impressionable young girls on their staff.
My daughters are 18 & 22 and this generation’s 20 isn’t the same as it was in mine.

[Twiggy @JillJessMom]

@MargaretHenzig Preaching to the choir. Republicans are seeing their % of voters die out so instead of changing/adapting to new voters they opt to try to cheat/game the system to get power & not relinquish it via gerrymandering, pushing voter suppression, gutting the Voting Rights Act & etc.

[Twiggy @JillJessMom]

@AntiToxicPeople @gtconway3d Delaying his trials so he’s stuck in court could have a hidden benefit — Donald Trump’s dementia, slurred speech and incoherence are increasing at a steady pace, the more he’s out on the campaign trail interacting, the more ppl will see it for themselves.
He can’t hide/stop it.

[Twiggy @JillJessMom]

@TheseDogsownme @duty2warn To be fair, I refer to her as Melatonin, Menopause, Meningitis, Melanoma and other diseases and I’m not suffering from dementia (I just think the gold digging, former porn model is a horrible person).😊

[Twiggy @JillJessMom]

@joshgerstein @gtconway3d It’s unfortunate bc they’re making the wrong decision bc if Donald Trump’s actions (& inactions) re J6 don’t qualify under the 14th Amendment, Section 3, no one’s could. Presidents *are* referred to as officers and as the office, etc but fine, we’ll beat him at the ballot box.

[Josh Gerstein @joshgerstein]

JUST IN: #SCOTUS sets unusual, short-notice opinion release for Monday morning. Appears to signal that ruling on Trump ballot eligibility is looming. Earlier:
https://t.co/tWUv8rxpsX

[Twiggy @JillJessMom]

@BeschlossDC @neal_katyal We must act to reform SCOTUS. Biden can do it in his 2nd term,
FDR did so in the 1930s when faced w similar problems.
Add seats, term limits, age limits and enact binding ethics standards!

[Neal Katyal @neal_katyal]

Trump facing a criminal trial on March 25 is significant. To understand, review the bidding.

First, before Trump was President, he hid his payments (the hush money) to avoid a criminal indictment then.

Second, he then became President, and said he couldn’t be indicted for his past crimes like the hush money while in office.

Third, he then committed more serious crimes in office (the Mueller report lists 10), and he said he couldn’t be prosecuted for his crimes as a sitting President while in office.

Fourth, he then got voted out of office, and so committed even more crimes to try to stay in office (the Jan. 6 charges, some of the most significant charges in the book), and said he couldn’t be prosecuted for them while he was still President.

Fifth, b/c he couldn't be prosecuted, Congress impeached him and he said he couldn’t be impeached because the only remedy was to prosecute him after he leaves office, not to impeach him.

Sixth, he then leaves office and he’s prosecuted (as per exactly what his lawyers said could happen to him), and he now says he can’t be prosecuted because he is absolutely immune from prosecution for acts while he was President.

Seventh, for crimes he committed when he was NOT President (like the New York ones), he is now saying he can’t be prosecuted for those either, b/c he’s he’s a candidate for President again (as his lawyer argued in court today).

And oh, eighth, he filed a brief in the US Supreme Court today saying because he was not impeached, he can't be convicted.

What is this? What Constitution on earth would permit this?