| Title | Date | Im- press | En- gage | Ex- pand | URL- clicks | Like | Re- tweet | Link to Text | Link to Tweet |
| It can be helpful to have rich parents. | 2022-12-23 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1606147729607888896 | 1606147729607888896 |
| State courts and constitutions matter too! | 2022-12-22 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1605831055008616448 | 1605831055008616448 |
| California's prison disaster. | 2022-12-14 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1603149088676978688 | 1603149088676978688 |
| Why police reform is so hard - | 2022-12-02 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1598548152520704002 | 1598548152520704002 |
| The reactionary Supreme Court doesn't always defend | 2022-11-25 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1596292585303445505 | 1596292585303445505 |
| Federalist Society congratulates reactionary wing of | 2022-11-12 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1591309276722925570 | 1591309276722925570 |
| A reactionary Supreme Court signals that it has no more use | 2022-11-01 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1587233680480534528 | 1587233680480534528 |
| Second time was not the charm. | 2022-10-31 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1586917021442224130 | 1586917021442224130 |
| Crime is rising everywhere. Whose fault is that? | 2022-10-25 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1584769533952241665 | 1584769533952241665 |
| We've been asking for trouble for years by electing judges | 2022-10-20 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1583240396498354177 | 1583240396498354177 |
| Can trials of politicians help? | 2022-10-09 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1578990286826401792 | 1578990286826401792 |
| When does prejudice merit recusal? | 2022-10-08 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1578597854150463489 | 1578597854150463489 |
| "The purpose of executive privilege is to benefit the | 2022-10-07 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1578413815087013889 | 1578413815087013889 |
| Originalism cuts both ways! | 2022-10-07 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1578182799764246528 | 1578182799764246528 |
| "They’ve spent a lot of time waiting for this majority | 2022-09-30 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1575909467018866688 | 1575909467018866688 |
| He's too busy prosecuting Biden! And managing his own | 2022-09-30 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1575903195963879424 | 1575903195963879424 |
| It's not easy to serve a Trumpist! | 2022-09-28 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1575010859662815232 | 1575010859662815232 |
| The shadow docket - no explanations required. | 2022-09-27 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1574609334922670081 | 1574609334922670081 |
| A novel plea - | 2022-09-25 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1573891770835824640 | 1573891770835824640 |
| Of course the suit was without merit on its face. | 2022-09-25 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1573869451291697152 | 1573869451291697152 |
| "partisan problems — like the one engineered by Mitch | 2022-09-24 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1573535925925081089 | 1573535925925081089 |
| What do Trump, Cuomo, and Atlanta gangsters have in common? | 2022-09-24 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1573531215251922945 | 1573531215251922945 |
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Vesco | 2022-09-24 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1573514797189976065 | 1573514797189976065 |
| Vigilantism - a sign of decline of the rule of law. | 2022-09-22 | 25 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1573051339948826624 | 1573051339948826624 |
| Does he still have access to sufficient funds to buy | 2022-09-22 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1572995468166303746 | 1572995468166303746 |
| How to use fake children to steal from the government! | 2022-09-22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1572797560120840193 | 1572797560120840193 |
| The quiet conclusion of the Durham investigation. | 2022-09-14 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1570118600257867777 | 1570118600257867777 |
| Who politicized DOJ? | 2022-09-09 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1568108542623911936 | 1568108542623911936 |
| Some crooks are smarter than others. | 2022-09-09 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1568083839028985858 | 1568083839028985858 |
| So when is obstruction criminal in itself? | 2022-08-26 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1563037823908794371 | 1563037823908794371 |
| The FBI is extremely conservative. | 2022-08-18 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1560309012091924482 | 1560309012091924482 |
| Democracy in decline - signaled by attacks on independent | 2022-08-18 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1560072105118470144 | 1560072105118470144 |
| Doing nothing is taking a stand too. A stand of asking | 2022-08-15 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1558970859166937088 | 1558970859166937088 |
| Trumpists or Ayatollahs - they think the same - don't | 2022-08-12 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1558145496245346305 | 1558145496245346305 |
| A Supreme Court with five reactionary Catholics and one | 2022-08-11 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1557800448962072576 | 1557800448962072576 |
| Internet facilitates a surge in shoplifting - and resulting | 2022-07-31 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1553586428310798337 | 1553586428310798337 |
| The people who want to control everybody else's private | 2022-07-05 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1544308250765451265 | 1544308250765451265 |
| Supreme Court doesn't care about Indians either. | 2022-07-02 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1543108247447490560 | 1543108247447490560 |
| Trumpism and Trumpists are not conservative - just a | 2022-06-30 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1542366177472544768 | 1542366177472544768 |
| Why "defund the police" has lost its luster. | 2022-06-27 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1541266586929049600 | 1541266586929049600 |
| There is no constitutional right to privacy. | 2022-06-25 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1540690029583839232 | 1540690029583839232 |
| No inconsistency! | 2022-06-25 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1540686726737276929 | 1540686726737276929 |
| You don't have to worry about criminal charges if you're | 2022-05-24 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1528891469133598720 | 1528891469133598720 |
| No more collegiality! | 2022-05-21 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1527813361743802369 | 1527813361743802369 |
| GOP intends to install reactionary judges to support | 2022-05-16 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1526083204494422016 | 1526083204494422016 |
| ICE surveillance of everybody. | 2022-05-13 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1524950322212286465 | 1524950322212286465 |
| If the Supreme Court decides there is no implied | 2022-05-10 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1523889803665715205 | 1523889803665715205 |
| Henry de Bracton | 2022-05-10 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1523884598874152962 | 1523884598874152962 |
| Sir Matthew Hale | 2022-05-10 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1523883222647468032 | 1523883222647468032 |
| Term limits for Supreme Court justices. | 2022-05-09 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1523458344454742017 | 1523458344454742017 |
| Now the project that GOP have been setting up for decades | 2022-05-06 | 16 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1522685371208806400 | 1522685371208806400 |
| If you overturn one precedent you don't like, you might | 2022-05-06 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1522576388129116162 | 1522576388129116162 |
| No wonder there were so many cops among the | 2022-05-01 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1520772719637278721 | 1520772719637278721 |
| Who struck down the Federal travel mask mandate? | 2022-05-01 | 34 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1520577598266302464 | 1520577598266302464 |
| How politicians corrupt non-profits. | 2022-04-22 | 515 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1517339460702130176 | 1517339460702130176 |
| Tim Scott: skin color is only skin deep, but political | 2022-04-14 | 47 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1514453325718073351 | 1514453325718073351 |
| Time for Democrats to quit ringing McConnell's bell! | 2022-04-12 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1513714299537035268 | 1513714299537035268 |
| The new McConnell rule. | 2022-04-08 | 31 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1512449392174804994 | 1512449392174804994 |
| “Republicans could not help themselves” | 2022-04-01 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1509733251295813632 | 1509733251295813632 |
| Unenumerated rights - once those start to fall, due | 2022-03-27 | 29 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1508101673285128193 | 1508101673285128193 |
| Trying to escape his past? | 2022-03-24 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1506972947881230338 | 1506972947881230338 |
| The purpose of Supreme Court nominee hearings, of course, | 2022-03-23 | 27 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1506719053892636672 | 1506719053892636672 |
| $3.6 billion recovered. | 2022-02-09 | 43 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1491256018877427713 | 1491256018877427713 |
| If you're rich enough to afford fancy lawyers, you don't | 2022-02-04 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1489738179586363392 | 1489738179586363392 |
| GOP argues what to do about Supreme Court nominee. | 2022-02-03 | 36 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1489136169438769153 | 1489136169438769153 |
| GOP wants Biden to do something about crime. But not | 2022-02-03 | 32 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1489125746387800064 | 1489125746387800064 |
| A history of Supreme Court diversity. | 2022-02-01 | 55 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1488324472864067586 | 1488324472864067586 |
| Everybody wants an annuity - even if it's illegal. | 2022-01-27 | 44 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1486550162990272514 | 1486550162990272514 |
| Will Manchin and Sinema support Biden's Supreme Court | 2022-01-27 | 48 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1486547404987850759 | 1486547404987850759 |
| Pandemic of repeat armed carjackings by minors. | 2022-01-23 | 63 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1485313167399948289 | 1485313167399948289 |
| Teaching law students where to look for hope | 2022-01-20 | 27 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1484018242527973377 | 1484018242527973377 |
| Supreme Court says full steam ahead on Federal | 2022-01-19 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1483880010964340737 | 1483880010964340737 |
| Missing your shipments? | 2022-01-16 | 41 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1482755359873847302 | 1482755359873847302 |
| Why Garland is being cautious | 2022-01-10 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1480352857442250753 | 1480352857442250753 |
| Guantanamo? | 2022-01-09 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1480218514325577732 | 1480218514325577732 |
| They did their own research! | 2022-01-04 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1478355264583602186 | 1478355264583602186 |
| 12 year terms for Supreme Court justices? | 2022-01-03 | 27 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1477814821206704128 | 1477814821206704128 |
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========== It can be helpful to have rich parents. https://apnews.com/article/ftx-sam-bankman-fried-ny-court-updates-e51c72c60cd76d242a48b19b16fd9998 #PS1justice ===== impress 3 time 2022-12-23 04:40 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1606147729607888896 ========== State courts and constitutions matter too! https://statecourtreport.substack.com/p/introducing-state-court-report #PS1justice ===== impress 4 time 2022-12-22 07:42 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1605831055008616448 ========== California's prison disaster. https://calmatters.org/justice/2022/12/california-prisons-reform/ #PS1justice ===== impress 4 time 2022-12-14 22:05 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1603149088676978688 ========== Why police reform is so hard - https://www.mcall.com/opinion/mc-opi-law-enforcement-reform-20221130-5ctjzxo7tjfx3kzzg6vn2l2fva-story.html The bad apple cops have bad apple politicians supporting them. #PS1justice ===== impress 1 time 2022-12-02 05:22 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1598548152520704002 ========== The reactionary Supreme Court doesn't always defend minority rule over traditional conservative rule of law. Just most of the time! https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/11/24/supreme-court-ideology-partisanship-trump/ #PS1justice ===== impress 4 time 2022-11-25 23:59 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1596292585303445505 ========== Federalist Society congratulates reactionary wing of Supreme Court for defending minority rule - as they'd been groomed to do. https://apnews.com/article/abortion-voting-rights-us-supreme-court-samuel-alito-donald-trump-f0926d7b4a8bbaf7b698ada1a791ab25 #PS1justice ===== impress 7 time 2022-11-12 05:57 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1591309276722925570 ========== A reactionary Supreme Court signals that it has no more use for affirmative action than for reproductive rights - or any other "right to privacy" or "equal protection" issues. https://apnews.com/article/voting-rights-ketanji-brown-jackson-us-supreme-court-college-admissions-affirmative-action-196ab930c799bcdc8b2a4a220641dd48 They're doing their duty to reinforce minority rule. #PS1justice ===== impress 11 time 2022-11-01 00:02 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1587233680480534528 ========== Second time was not the charm. https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2022/oct/28/man-who-helped-run-border-wall-charity-convicted-i/ Looks like he'll go to jail and hope Trump pardons him like he did for Bannon. #PS1justice ===== impress 2 time 2022-10-31 03:04 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1586917021442224130 ========== Crime is rising everywhere. Whose fault is that? And it's worse in rural then urban areas. Whose fault is that? https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/24/opinion/rising-crime-democrats.html #PS1justice ===== impress 5 time 2022-10-25 04:51 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1584769533952241665 ========== We've been asking for trouble for years by electing judges on a partisan basis. Now we're getting it. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/10/18/judicial-elections-time-bomb-democracy/ #PS1justice ===== impress 5 time 2022-10-20 23:35 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1583240396498354177 ========== Can trials of politicians help? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/10/08/trump-prosecution-reconciliation-hunter-biden/ #PS1justice ===== impress 5 time 2022-10-09 06:06 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1578990286826401792 ========== When does prejudice merit recusal? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/10/07/justice-thomas-recuse-mar-a-lago-documents-case/ #PS1justice ===== impress 3 time 2022-10-08 04:07 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1578597854150463489 ========== "The purpose of executive privilege is to benefit the country as a whole — not to benefit presidents as individuals" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/30/us/politics/trump-executive-privilege.html More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1772648463079665 #PS1justice ===== impress 2 time 2022-10-07 15:55 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1578413815087013889 ========== Originalism cuts both ways! https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/10/06/ketanji-brown-jackson-supreme-court-alabama-originalism/ #PS1justice ===== impress 1 time 2022-10-07 00:37 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1578182799764246528 ========== "They’ve spent a lot of time waiting for this majority to happen, and they don’t plan to waste it” "One of the striking things in this area is that originalists do not bring their usual apparatus to bear on these questions" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/09/30/supreme-court-term-conservative-targets/ #PS1justice ===== impress 4 time 2022-09-30 18:04 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1575909467018866688 ========== He's too busy prosecuting Biden! And managing his own legal defense. It's not fair to expect him to go after ordinary criminals too! https://apnews.com/article/elections-texas-presidential-election-2020-ken-paxton-a1bdcfd0a9d25bd6aa3666b70f74f2b2 #PS1justice ===== engage 1 engage-rate 33% impress 3 time 2022-09-30 17:39 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1575903195963879424 ========== It's not easy to serve a Trumpist! https://apnews.com/article/texas-dallas-subpoenas-ken-paxton-3fa293d712fda938142c86aaf5be83c1 Especially a lawyer with lots of legal problems. #PS1justice ===== impress 3 time 2022-09-28 06:33 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1575010859662815232 ========== The shadow docket - no explanations required. https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/26/opinions/supreme-court-shadow-docket-vladeck/index.html #PS1justice ===== impress 4 time 2022-09-27 03:58 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1574609334922670081 ========== A novel plea - "go easy on me because the government made it so easy to steal" https://artdaily.com/news/149110/Prosecutors-struggle-to-catch-up-to-a-tidal-wave-of-pandemic-fraud #PS1justice ===== impress 4 time 2022-09-25 04:26 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1573891770835824640 ========== Of course the suit was without merit on its face. Plaintiffs just wanted publicity for a propaganda win. Who paid their legal fees? https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/24/politics/doj-memo-school-board-threats-dismiss-lawsuit/index.html #PS1justice ===== impress 2 time 2022-09-25 02:58 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1573869451291697152 ========== "partisan problems — like the one engineered by Mitch McConnell, Trump and the Federalist Society — demand partisan solutions" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/23/opinion/cannon-trump-federal-judges.html #PS1justice ===== impress 5 time 2022-09-24 04:52 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1573535925925081089 ========== What do Trump, Cuomo, and Atlanta gangsters have in common? They are all learning what "law and order" is all about - from bad experiences with Howard University graduates! https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/09/23/letitia-james-fani-willis-howard-university-trump/ #PS1justice ===== impress 20 time 2022-09-24 04:34 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1573531215251922945 ========== https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Vesco If you're a fugitive on the run, you're just a pawn in other people's games. Better have acce$$ to lot$ of influence to buy protection. https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-asia-venezuela-navy-fbbe6efc3c566e76c3891c29677973ff #PS1justice ===== impress 4 time 2022-09-24 03:28 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1573514797189976065 ========== Vigilantism - a sign of decline of the rule of law. The people who enjoy hunting and trapping other people will eventually find all sorts of excuses and go far beyond child predators. Wrong person? Mistakes happen! https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/09/22/prredator-catchers-vigilante-justice/ #PS1justice ===== engage 2 engage-rate 8% expands 1 impress 25 time 2022-09-22 20:47 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1573051339948826624 ========== Does he still have access to sufficient funds to buy protection in Venezuela or safe transit to Russia? https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/09/22/fugitive-in-massive-navy-bribery-case-caught-in-venezuela/ Or will he wait and wait and wait in limbo - as in the movie Casablanca. #PS1justice ===== impress 18 time 2022-09-22 17:05 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1572995468166303746 ========== How to use fake children to steal from the government! https://apnews.com/article/health-minnesota-covid-nutrition-cc55a566c806a29a7f2e64c762975a09 #PS1justice ===== engage-rate NaN time 2022-09-22 03:58 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1572797560120840193 ========== The quiet conclusion of the Durham investigation. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/09/14/trump-russia-durham-barr/ #PS1justice ===== impress 12 time 2022-09-14 18:33 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1570118600257867777 ========== Who politicized DOJ? https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/09/08/berman-trump-department-justice-organized/ #PS1justice ===== impress 10 time 2022-09-09 05:26 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1568108542623911936 ========== Some crooks are smarter than others. https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/09/08/fat-leonards-bold-escape-from-california-home-was-judges-worst-fear-come-true/ But if they catch him, he'll never see the light of day again. How big a reward are they offering? It's going to be hard for the next defendant with a valid request for leniency. #PS1justice ===== impress 3 time 2022-09-09 03:48 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1568083839028985858 ========== So when is obstruction criminal in itself? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/08/25/barr-memo-trump-obstruction-justice/ #PS1justice ===== impress 2 time 2022-08-26 05:37 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1563037823908794371 ========== The FBI is extremely conservative. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/18/opinion/trump-fbi-conservative.html But Trump is not a conservative. He's a reactionary populist personality cultist. The FBI had its fill of those, one hopes, with J Edgar Hoover. #PS1justice ===== impress 11 time 2022-08-18 16:53 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1560309012091924482 ========== Democracy in decline - signaled by attacks on independent judiciary. https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-mar-a-lago-democracy-congress-government-and-politics-3e957660956399da07b59808bd9c8a71 #PS1justice ===== impress 1 time 2022-08-18 01:12 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1560072105118470144 ========== Doing nothing is taking a stand too. A stand of asking for more. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/13/opinion/trump-fbi-investigation.html #PS1justice ===== impress 1 time 2022-08-15 00:16 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1558970859166937088 ========== Trumpists or Ayatollahs - they think the same - don't bother with elections or laws, it's more efficient to just send assassins. https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/12/us/fbi-cincinnati-office-armed-suspect-what-we-know/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/12/us/salman-rushdie-attacked/index.html #PS1justice ===== impress 24 time 2022-08-12 17:36 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1558145496245346305 ========== A Supreme Court with five reactionary Catholics and one reactionary Episcopalian. https://news.gallup.com/opinion/polling-matters/391649/religion-supreme-court-justices.aspx Thought America left established religion behind in 1787? https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/11/opinion/religion-supreme-court-alito.html More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1728678387476673 #PS1justice ===== impress 8 time 2022-08-11 18:45 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1557800448962072576 ========== Internet facilitates a surge in shoplifting - and resulting countermeasures. https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/30/business/drug-stores-locked-products/index.html #PS1justice ===== impress 6 time 2022-07-31 03:40 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1553586428310798337 ========== The people who want to control everybody else's private lives won't stop with abortion. Clarence Thomas is the only one willing to admit it, but the other five reactionary justices will have to follow sooner or later. https://washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/06/26/surpreme-court-abortion-thomas-threatens-contraception-gay-rights/ #PS1justice ===== impress 10 time 2022-07-05 13:12 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1544308250765451265 ========== Supreme Court doesn't care about Indians either. https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/opinion-once-again-supreme-court-180333774.html After all, how much do Indians donate to support minority rule? #PS1justice ===== impress 8 time 2022-07-02 05:44 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1543108247447490560 ========== Trumpism and Trumpists are not conservative - just a reactionary cult of personality. The conservative viewpoint is irrelevant: that Roe v Wade was bad, but repealing it after 50 years is just as bad. https://nytimes.com/2022/05/03/opinion/abortion-supreme-court-conservative.html More at https://facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1656268181384361 #PS1justice ===== impress 13 time 2022-06-30 04:35 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1542366177472544768 ========== Why "defund the police" has lost its luster. https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/06/26/mysterious-bay-area-criminal-organization-had-nationwide-reach-law-enforcement-imposter-ties-to-shootings-and-notorious-murder-feds-say/ #PS1justice ===== impress 10 time 2022-06-27 03:46 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1541266586929049600 ========== There is no constitutional right to privacy. https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/24/opinions/clarence-thomas-what-next-toobin/index.html A lot more than Roe has been shot down. It's all red meat for a certain essential part of the GOP voting base. But can swing voters get their minds off gas prices long enough to understand? #PS1justice ===== impress 8 time 2022-06-25 13:35 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1540690029583839232 ========== No inconsistency! https://apnews.com/article/abortion-us-supreme-court-health-constitutions-7c23635f8a992f4f24a915f9179463f2 The Trumpist justices were groomed by the Federalist Society to do exactly what they did - say whatever was needed to get confirmed, and then support minority rule at every opportunity once confirmed. #PS1justice ===== impress 3 time 2022-06-25 13:21 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1540686726737276929 ========== You don't have to worry about criminal charges if you're a Trumpist! https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-dallas-houston-ken-paxton-62273089acc4feb70dd64349bc398f5d Especially in Texas! #PS1justice ===== impress 3 time 2022-05-24 00:11 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1528891469133598720 ========== No more collegiality! https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/20/politics/clarence-thomas-john-roberts-supreme-court-roe-wade/index.html The reactionary right wants a decisive moment and a decisive victory. #PS1justice ===== impress 17 time 2022-05-21 00:47 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1527813361743802369 ========== GOP intends to install reactionary judges to support its minority rule in the states as well as the Federal judiciary. https://apnews.com/article/abortion-2022-midterm-elections-us-supreme-court-raleigh-9233470c6557fff307a24cd97db3453c #PS1justice ===== impress 14 time 2022-05-16 06:12 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1526083204494422016 ========== ICE surveillance of everybody. https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-05-10/report-immigration-officials-spying-on-majority-of-americans #PS1justice ===== impress 17 time 2022-05-13 03:11 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1524950322212286465 ========== If the Supreme Court decides there is no implied constitutional right to privacy, red state legislators will certainly run that ball as far as they can. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/05/09/gop-beyond-roe-restrictions/ Abortion is just the beginning. #PS1justice ===== impress 24 time 2022-05-10 04:56 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1523889803665715205 ========== Henry de Bracton https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/05/09/alito-13th-century-law-roe-opinion-snl/ #PS1justice ===== impress 25 time 2022-05-10 04:36 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1523884598874152962 ========== Sir Matthew Hale https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/05/09/alito-roe-sir-matthew-hale-misogynist/ #PS1justice ===== impress 23 time 2022-05-10 04:30 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1523883222647468032 ========== Term limits for Supreme Court justices. https://www.arcamax.com/politics/opeds/s-2672926 Unfortunately that requires a constitutional amendment, probably impossible these days. Increasing the court size is not as good a solution, but it does not require an amendment. #PS1justice ===== impress 23 time 2022-05-09 00:22 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1523458344454742017 ========== Now the project that GOP have been setting up for decades is ready to bear fruit, to demolish any judicial precedents their donors find inconvenient. That's the real scandal. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/06/opinion/supreme-court-roe-dobbs-legitimacy.html More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/pfbid02dd5QicJDdB6DvjERqgrw5cjtc3pjAyeZxiaa15QVyyXhz1o4pqcZhMcR1FtwdoH7l #PS1justice ===== engage 1 engage-rate 6% impress 16 likes 1 time 2022-05-06 21:10 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1522685371208806400 ========== If you overturn one precedent you don't like, you might as well overturn them all. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/05/us/abortion-precedent-alito.html #PS1justice ===== impress 15 time 2022-05-06 13:57 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1522576388129116162 ========== No wonder there were so many cops among the insurrectionists! https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-04-28/audit-of-california-law-enforcement-finds-extreme-bias-among-officers-goes-unchecked #PS1justice ===== impress 23 time 2022-05-01 14:30 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1520772719637278721 ========== Who struck down the Federal travel mask mandate? https://news.yahoo.com/column-bogus-decision-strike-travel-100017007.html An inexperienced groomee of the Federalist Society and Mitch McConnell. That's where nearly all Federal judges come from now. #PS1justice ===== impress 34 time 2022-05-01 01:35 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1520577598266302464 ========== How politicians corrupt non-profits. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/21/us/politics/crime-stoppers-houston.html #PS1justice ===== impress 515 time 2022-04-22 03:08 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1517339460702130176 ========== Tim Scott: skin color is only skin deep, but political ambition goes straight to the core. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/04/12/tim-scott-ketanji-jackson-brown/ #PS1justice ===== impress 47 time 2022-04-14 03:59 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1514453325718073351 ========== Time for Democrats to quit ringing McConnell's bell! https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/11/opinions/mitch-mcconell-scotus-williams/index.html #PS1justice ===== impress 17 time 2022-04-12 03:03 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1513714299537035268 ========== The new McConnell rule. https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/08/politics/mitch-mcconnell-supreme-court-nominee/index.html A GOP Senate will not even consider a Supreme Court nominee by a Democratic president. Maybe no judicial nominees at all. #PS1justice ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% impress 31 time 2022-04-08 15:16 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1512449392174804994 ========== “Republicans could not help themselves” https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/03/27/by-trashing-jackson-gop-magnified-right-wing-courts-legitimacy-problem/ #PS1justice ===== impress 17 time 2022-04-01 03:23 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1509733251295813632 ========== Unenumerated rights - once those start to fall, due process is next - to be limited to the processes in the Bill of Rights. And then a Constitutional Convention dominated by rural GOP to get rid of the Bill of Rights - except firearms. https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/03/25/ketanji-brown-jackson-roe/ #PS1justice ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% impress 29 time 2022-03-27 15:20 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1508101673285128193 ========== Trying to escape his past? https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/23/politics/manafort-passport-revoked/index.html What better proof of criminality than a pardon from Trump? #PS1justice ===== impress 20 time 2022-03-24 12:35 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1506972947881230338 ========== The purpose of Supreme Court nominee hearings, of course, is to rally support of Senators' voter bases. The actual qualifications of the nominee are irrelevant. https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/23/politics/gop-criticism-ketanji-brown-jackson/index.html #PS1justice ===== engage 3 engage-rate 11% hashclicks 1 impress 27 likes 1 time 2022-03-23 19:46 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1506719053892636672 ========== $3.6 billion recovered. https://apnews.com/article/cryptocurrency-stolen-arrest-7e83f7188e8e1580e9678d8a47d6ab32 Covering your tracks must be harder than it seems. #PS1justice ===== impress 43 time 2022-02-09 03:41 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1491256018877427713 ========== If you're rich enough to afford fancy lawyers, you don't have to obey the laws. https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/02/04/bay-area-town-says-big-cats-make-it-exempt-from-state-housing-law/ #PS1justice ===== impress 18 time 2022-02-04 23:10 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1489738179586363392 ========== GOP argues what to do about Supreme Court nominee. If Trump opposes the nominee, as seems likely, will they go along? https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/02/politics/republican-strategy-supreme-court-fight/index.html #PS1justice ===== impress 36 time 2022-02-03 07:18 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1489136169438769153 ========== GOP wants Biden to do something about crime. But not do anything about the guns used to commit crimes. It's a win-win for the GOP in an election year. https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-joe-biden-health-police-new-york-d48859bb905b90b56e833eea83bc1b67 #PS1justice ===== impress 32 time 2022-02-03 06:36 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1489125746387800064 ========== A history of Supreme Court diversity. https://www.arcamax.com/politics/opeds/s-2625353 There's nothing new about Biden's promise. #PS1justice ===== impress 55 time 2022-02-01 01:33 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1488324472864067586 ========== Everybody wants an annuity - even if it's illegal. https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/26/politics/winred-political-fundraising-investigation/index.html Nobody wants to enable a monthly deduction BY DEFAULT. #PS1justice ===== impress 44 time 2022-01-27 04:02 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1486550162990272514 ========== Will Manchin and Sinema support Biden's Supreme Court nomination? https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/26/opinions/biden-nominee-stephen-breyer-replacement-manchin-sinema-zelizer/index.html #PS1justice ===== impress 48 time 2022-01-27 03:51 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1486547404987850759 ========== Pandemic of repeat armed carjackings by minors. https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/23/us/carjackings-rise-major-cities-pandemic/index.html Should repeat armed felons be charged as adults? In any case, defunding police is pretty unlikely. Most departments are short-handed already. #PS1justice ===== impress 63 time 2022-01-23 18:07 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1485313167399948289 ========== Teaching law students where to look for hope https://wacotrib.com/opinion/columnists/erwin-chemerinsky-jeffrey-abramson-what-do-we-teach-law-students-when-we-have-no-faith/article_d72e5cc2-1fd5-52e8-85a9-a57abd858acd.html #PS1justice ===== impress 27 time 2022-01-20 04:21 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1484018242527973377 ========== Supreme Court says full steam ahead on Federal deregulation, a critical goal of GOP major donors. https://www.arcamax.com/politics/opeds/s-2620086 #PS1justice ===== impress 26 time 2022-01-19 19:12 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1483880010964340737 ========== Missing your shipments? https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/14/economy/la-freight-railroad-theft/index.html #PS1justice ===== impress 41 time 2022-01-16 16:43 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1482755359873847302 ========== Why Garland is being cautious https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/01/09/garlands-caution-is-an-asset-when-it-comes-holding-trump-accountable/ He's recreating the Justice Dept in its original form, undoing the Trump metastases. #PS1justice ===== impress 17 time 2022-01-10 01:36 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1480352857442250753 ========== Guantanamo? https://www.political-scrapbook.net/controversial.html#guantanamo "I want to hold them as long as it takes to keep us safe" Lindsey Graham makes it clear that he favors permanent detention without charges or trial. Hitler, Stalin, Kim - they'd all be proud. https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-cuba-prisons-congress-01da0f22b22c0a56b91c146ba2d2f4fc #PS1justice ===== impress 25 time 2022-01-09 16:42 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1480218514325577732 ========== They did their own research! https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/01/03/louisville-evacuee-accused-of-threatening-firefighter-found-with-loaded-weapons/ https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/01/04/staff-are-attacked-at-tustin-vaccination-site-by-man-claiming-pandemic-is-a-hoax-suspect-arrested/ Now they'll continue to research the legal system and the mental health system. #PS1justice ===== impress 24 time 2022-01-04 13:18 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1478355264583602186 ========== 12 year terms for Supreme Court justices? https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/31/opinion/supreme-court-term-limits.html #PS1justice ===== impress 27 time 2022-01-03 01:31 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1477814821206704128