Joseph Britt

@Zathras3

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  1. Retweeted
    21 May 2017

    Praise, pity and Trump: a look back.

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    10 minutes ago

    Back in November 2016, Evan Osnos wrote a piece that I've thought about a lot since -- and especially now in light of the Woodward revelations and the NYT op-ed: Resisting Trump from Inside the Government

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  3. 5 hours ago

    Thread. On Kavanaugh, by senior Judiciary Committee Democrat — this was obviously prepared by Leahy & staff prior to today’s hearing, but after Trump WH asserted executive privilege to keep Bush WH records secret.

    THREAD: Between 2001 and 2003, Republican Senate staffers hacked into and stole 4,670 files on controversial Bush judicial nominees from 6 Democrats, including me. This scandal amounted to a digital Watergate, not unlike Russia’s hacking of the DNC.
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  4. 6 hours ago

    Thread. This is probably true.

    A lot of people are shaking their heads and wagging their fingers at all the protesters disrupting the Kavanaugh hearing. But you would be remiss to write it off as rudeness and not realize the real anger on display that is going to have a real impact on the midterm elections.
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  5. 8 hours ago

    A President would be too busy (invading Iraq & watching the economy collapse & such) to be bothered with investigations as Clinton had been. Kavanaugh would now, if confirmed, deploy his conviction on behalf of a President who spends half his time watching TV and playing golf.

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  6. 8 hours ago

    9/11: a terrorist attack made possible by an indolent, careless President asleep at the switch. After it happened, Kavanaugh — having been hired by that same President — adopted the conviction that a President must not be questioned while in office.

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  7. 8 hours ago

    9/11, so Kavanaugh now says, was a seminal event for him, changing the very aggressive attitude he had taken, as part of the Starr inquest of Bill Clinton, about questions a President should have to answer in an investigation of suspected wrongdoing.

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  8. 8 hours ago

    ...without some federal agency telling them they can’t. The Federalist Society crowd from which Kavanaugh springs is lavishly funded by the very sources of concentrated wealth, so he takes their side. This irony isn’t the only one.

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  9. 8 hours ago

    ...complex situations throughout a vast country without specific direction in statute language. This so-called Chevron precedent is loathed by concentrations of economic power; if they want to dump toxic waste in a river to avoid some expense, by God they want to do it...

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  10. 8 hours ago

    Kavanaugh, in particular, would abandon the very sensible reasoning Scalia relied on as to agency discretion in how laws passed by Congress can be applied & enforced. Agencies are established by Congress to have subject matter expertise; Congress expects them to manage...

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  11. 8 hours ago

    Addendum: I can’t keep myself from noting some powerful ironies in the above. Kavanaugh takes a wildly broad view of the Chief Executive’s powers, but a very narrow one of Executive Branch agency authority.

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  12. 8 hours ago

    7. may be right about this. It is a simpler message, and in campaign politics simpler is generally better. In any event, Sargent’s argument deserves careful attention.

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  13. 8 hours ago

    6. In terms of political messaging, an electorate anxious for some kind of check on Trump might be especially receptive to criticism of a “blank-check” Justice, and of the Republicans eager to put him on the Court to defend The Leader.

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  14. 8 hours ago

    5. thinks Kavanaugh’s view of Presidential power is more salient. His record suggests Kavanaugh would rule Constitutional almost anything the President who appointed him did. This could tempt recklessness in a President prone to it.

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  15. 8 hours ago

    4... they make it easier for Republican candidates to win elections. Some of these decisions have trashed precedent in this cause. Kavanaugh would do the same. I still think corruption of justice to serve party is a theme with kick, but takes a different view.

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  16. 8 hours ago

    3....Kavanaugh is giving now — may not have always been consistently conservative, but have absolutely been consistently Republican. Decisions including Shelby County, Citizens United, Husted, Abbott, and Janus have one common thread:

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  17. 8 hours ago

    2. I have thought the best message for Democrats involved the theme of corruption that applies to so much of the Republican Party. Specifically, GOP-appointed Justices on the Court now — who all gave the same assurances about respecting precedent & calling balls and strikes...

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  18. 8 hours ago

    <Thread> on Kavanaugh. I have taken the view that Senate Republicans will most likely unite in defense of Trump & Trump’s Supreme Court nominee. Kavanaugh will therefore be confirmed. Democrats had best come away from this fight with a clear political message.

    Today it's urgent that Dem Senators get Kavanaugh to illuminate how his views bear on this question: Is the president above the law? I spoke to experts about how to do this. If Trump comes away emboldened, that makes a crisis more likely. New post:
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  19. 9 hours ago

    Getting worn down by the continual rain here in southern Wisconsin. I feel like I’m living on Ferenginar.

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    10 hours ago

    Brett Kavanaugh essentially just admitted that he'd overturn Chevron deference if he gets on the court. This is the biggest reason why big business is so pumped about him and has spent millions to get him confirmed. It would dramatically undermine the administrative state.

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  21. 9 hours ago

    Interested in social media’s response to Russian and other information operations? is live-tweeting Senate Intelligence Committee’s overdue hearing on the subject this morning.

    Hi folks -- I'll live-tweet highlights (and frustration) of the Senate Intel hearing with facebook/twiiter this morning in this thread. /1
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