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Senior Fellow at Brookings. Editor in Chief: Lawfare (). It was evening all afternoon. It was snowing And it was going to snow.

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  1. Pinned Tweet
    12 Jul 2017

    The word, from Alexander Hamilton, 1792. It never gets old.

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  2. 2 hours ago

    Word

    I'm curious to know what makes of this (I'm not being snarky; I genuinely want to know).
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  3. 6 hours ago

    Out of respect for both her and Kavanaugh, I will wait and see which is the reality.

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  4. 6 hours ago

    I would put this slightly differently: Either Kamala Harris has something significant to reveal about Kavanaugh’s having improper discussions about the Mueller probe with someone from the Kasowitz firm or she engaged in a shocking piece of demagoguery yesterday.

    "Kamala Harris must know something and is cleverly keeping it hidden" is, I suppose, one theory for her bizarre line of questioning. Or maybe she heard some rumor and decided to go fishing. Kavanaugh charitably assumed that she was actually trying to learn something.
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  5. Retweeted
    18 hours ago

    The op-ed doesn’t tell us anything we didn’t already know. This, from June 2017, aged just fine:

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  6. 7 hours ago

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    Trump likes to say disloyal staffers are guilty of TREASON, but I came across an amazing document that actually defines TREASON, and disloyalty to him doesn't cut it. Not sure of the document's name, but it begins, "We the People...." Link to it here:
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  7. 13 hours ago

    Do swamps fight?

    I’m draining the Swamp, and the Swamp is trying to fight back. Don’t worry, we will win!
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  8. 17 hours ago

    I have no respect for someone who would say these things—of whose truth I have no doubt—in an anonymous oped, rather than in a public resignation letter copied to the House Judiciary Committee.

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  9. 18 hours ago

    Tonight a special edition of the Lawfare Podcast will isolate everything interesting from a perspective in today’s Kavanaugh hearing. What will we be cutting? distills it all for you.

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  10. 22 hours ago

    Moving into the . For ⁦⁩’s eighth birthday, we got a new podcast studio! With ⁦⁩, ⁦⁩, ⁦⁩, ⁦⁩ & ⁦⁩.

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    Sep 5

    Wondering what article they are talking about in the ? Ask !

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  12. Sep 5

    I very much agree with Ed on this. Of all the things for Democratic senators to spend time on with a SCOTUS nominee... this?

    Very strange line of questioning for second Dem to waste his time on.
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  13. Sep 4

    boom

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  14. Retweeted
    Sep 4

    remember yesterday when the president argued in front of the entire world that the department of justice shouldn't have brought charges against two republican lawmakers because it is politically inconvenient for him

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    Sep 4

    Senior DOJ official: 👉 Trump tweet “shows how POTUS thinks DOJ should be used: As a weapon against enemies and a tool to win elections.” 👉 “Both cases [Collins and Hunter] are not even close, the facts are very bad.”

    With a tweet complaining that indictments of two congressmen "by the Jeff Sessions Justice Department" put GOP seats at risk, President Trump guaranteed a confirmation minefield for any future attorney general.
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  16. Sep 4

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    What's remarkable about Trump’s attack on Sessions re GOP congressmen is that, like similar episodes, (a) he openly abuses his office, (b) his abuse is verbal, not operational, (c) he's ineffective in executing his corrupts aims, (d) his openness is one key to his ineffectiveness
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  17. Sep 4

    At last I have found a second thing that’s cuddly in the Mueller investigation...

    Mueller’s investigators told Randy Credico that he can bring a dog to his grand jury appearance
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  18. Sep 4

    . just said—twice—that Congress could end life tenure for judges by “legislation.” Senator, meet Article III, sec. 1.

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  19. Sep 4

    I found this split screen, which I saw from the set this morning, strangely moving.

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    A split screen from the weekend, as Sen. McCain is laid to rest.
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  20. Sep 4

    Amy Klobuchar () just said that the days of the divine right of kings ended with Magna Carta. That’s not right. The Stuarts claimed it much later in Britain and it’s associated with Louis XIV in France.

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