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Law, democracy, and the courts, . Past: . Nothing unreal exists. matt@tnr.com

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  1. Pinned Tweet
    14 Feb 2017

    It's less of a "news cycle" these days and more of that BSG episode where the Cylons attack every 33 minutes.

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  2. 4 hours ago

    Utah officials have discovered a mysterious 10-foot metal monolith in a remote part of the state.

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    8 hours ago

    “the earnest attempt to subvert and overturn the election didn’t pan out so the people who urged vigilance were being hysterical” is the probably going to be conventional wisdom for the professional contrarian set

    What was predicted: mass election violence, chaos, and the end of democracy What happened: rage tweeting, comical lawsuits, and an otherwise fairly robust voter turnout
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    8 hours ago

    Finally, November 3rd comes to an end

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  5. 8 hours ago

    Also, Trump himself is now undermining her claim that she acted independently:

    ...fight, and I believe we will prevail! Nevertheless, in the best interest of our Country, I am recommending that Emily and her team do what needs to be done with regard to initial protocols, and have told my team to do the same.
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  6. 8 hours ago

    Despite what Murphy writes in the third paragraph, the statute itself was not really the problem here.

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  7. 8 hours ago

    The transition begins:

    Here's the full letter from Murphy to Biden:
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  8. 9 hours ago

    Big "three-hour losing streak at a blackjack table in Atlantic City" energy

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    Rudy Giuliani is complaining that all the courts have been unfair so far, but "one good hearing, and this will turn all around"
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  9. 9 hours ago

    Trump hasn’t tweeted in more than 16 hours.

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  10. Retweeted
    11 hours ago

    Weird how all these people are being nominated without having to parade in front of cameras to give free advertising to properties owned by the president-elect.

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    11 hours ago

    NEW: The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has rejected the Trump campaign's challenge to 8,329 absentee ballots in Philadelphia missing certain info on the envelope AND reversed an order that invalidated 2,349 ballots in Allegheny County for the same reason

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    15 hours ago

    In other news, 15 Philly mob members and associates -- including underboss Steven Mazzone and a guy nicknamed "Tony Meatballs" -- indicted in biggest LCN RICO case in city in years.

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  13. 13 hours ago

    The universe is twice as luminous as it should be, and scientists can't figure out where the rest of the light is coming from.

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  14. 14 hours ago

    The White House should've named the turkeys Gorpman and Bleemer.

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    15 hours ago

    NEW: sued for a years-long cover-up of child sex abuse in violation of post-2002 church policies & state law on the fiduciary duty of charities. It’s a novel legal approach + first NY legal action against the church in years

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  16. 17 hours ago

    No new grants from SCOTUS this AM, including no action on the PA absentee ballot case (which won't affect the outcome either way):

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  17. Nov 22

    This guy rules and I hope he lands on his feet somewhere that appreciates him.

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  18. Nov 22

    Sherwin-Williams found out it employed one of the few millennials who was truly passionate about their job and fired him for it.

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  19. Nov 22

    It’s not every day that you see a client commenting on his lawyer’s behalf.

    . has been suspended from Twitter for 12 hours. She understands the WH press release & agrees with it. She is staying the course to prove the massive deliberate election fraud that robbed of our votes for President Trump & other Republican candidates.
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  20. Nov 22

    It’s pretty clear what happened here: She got too close to the truth.

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  21. Nov 22

    Sidney Powell is off the Trump legal team in less than a Scarimucci.

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