Victoria B

@statesunited Sr. Counsel. Co-host Yahoo News' Skullduggery podcast. Author Electoral Dysfunction. Contributor to This is What Democracy Looked Like.

[Victoria B @VBass]

Getting weird here. I can be found at https://t.co/TZW1pL76rq

[Victoria B @VBass]

@LGAairport And actively misinforming your customers is bad.

[Victoria B @VBass]

@LGAairport your website says the wait time to get through terminal B pre check is 13 minutes. It is 2 hours. Please don’t misinform people.

[Victoria B @VBass]

@LGAairport I know TSA is not funded. But the terminals themselves ARE fully funded. Informing your customers accurately seems like something you could do to help everyone and to reiterate you are fully funded. The terminals are not paid for by federal dollars.

[Victoria B @VBass]

@Poshmarkapp Me. I bought something from Poshmark with your authenticity guarantee. You: mailed me an empty box and haven’t responded to six emails I sent to support.

[Kevin R Kosar @kevinrkosar]

1. This Thursday, Walter Oleszek retires from the Congressional Research Service. He arrived there 55 years ago back when CRS was the Legislative Reference Service.

[Norm Eisen @NormEisen]

The great @JackLGoldsmith’s op-ed @NYTOpinion on the Trump 1/6 indictment is articulate & provocative but wrong

The terrible consequences he speculates about are dubious

But the terrible consequences of NOT prosecuting are greater & more certain 1/x
https://t.co/nikm1XFi2z

[Victoria B @VBass]

@BrianLehrer @samanthaellimax @WNYC Reporting crime numbers only by percentage increases tells a distorted story. A 17.5% increase in car thefts sounds bad. But if that is on a base of only 100 last year, it’s not so bad. Reporting rates per 100k gives better data.

[Chris “Law Dork” Geidner @chrisgeidner]

Don’t threaten me with a good time.*

* = Getting to write about the Federal Vacancies Reform Act, and DOJ-specific vacancy laws, like it was the Trump days when they just didn’t even nominate people.

[Michael Beschloss @BeschlossDC]

Sixty years ago today, two heroic, courageous and idealistic young Black Americans, Vivian Malone and James Hood, entered the University of Alabama after JFK federalized the Alabama National Guard and Governor George Wallace stepped aside after trying to bar them:

[Victoria B @VBass]

@KevinTMorris *studies

[Victoria B @VBass]

@KevinTMorris I haven’t looked at the studio, but from personal experience in NYC many of the projects do not get finished often bc the project advocates/proposers have no idea how hard and long the permitting process is.

[southpaw @nycsouthpaw]

Tammany Hall now a Petco.

[Victoria B @VBass]

@BrianLehrer @nycbotanist My community garden planted a yellow "Judy Zuck" magnolia in Red Hook. That cultivar was developed in the Brooklyn Botanical Garden.

[Victoria B @VBass]

@RobertCotter_ Now do the Sopranos.

[Victoria B @VBass]

Incredible job here compiling and analyzing the tidal wave.

[State Democracy Research Initiative @UWLawDemocracy]

We've compiled election-related lawsuits in state & federal courts for 2018, 2020, & 2022. Some takeaways:
▪️ A high volume of litigation persists
▪️ Most suits are in state court
▪️ Litigation often addresses details of election administration

https://t.co/odDhMgJuVw

[Alex Keyssar @AlexKeyssar]

Quite correct; in addition, many states in the 19th century adopted laws enfranchising aliens (not citizens) who had lived in the US for a couple of years and declared their intention to become citizens.

[States United Democracy Center @statesunited]

"As we head toward possibly one of the most consequential and fraught presidential elections in history, we can’t be complacent because the pressure is on...We’re going to see everything thrown at the wall, good and bad."— @VBass explains what's to come.
https://t.co/8j6BEvlulY

[Gene Rossi @rossi4va]

My January 6 radio appearance on LA’s @knxnews with hosts @knxcharles & @KNXarcher, plus fellow guests Congressman @BradSherman & author Victoria @VBass to discuss legacy of #J6. https://t.co/8KaI2BeeIZ

[Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz]

OKAY, here’s the thing about “members-elect”: it obscures more than it clarifies, and the House should legislate to clarify going forward. (1/x)

[Eric Columbus @EricColumbus]

Schrödinger’s House
https://t.co/m5O8GKFFmY