Originally published at: Dueling Missouri Court Decisions Give Us a Preview of the Kind of Midterm We’re In For - TPM – Talking Points Memo
Chaos and the Courts A set of dueling federal court decisions sets the stage for the kind of legal flurry we can expect between now and the midterms. As Kate Riga reported for TPM, Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who oversees appeals for the federal judicial circuit that includes Missouri, denied an effort by the state’s Republican…
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You mean the law that only applies to Democrats as per the Fascists on SCOTUS.
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Go Natalie!! Take it all, girl!!
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Thanks to Hoskins, the state now faces the bizarre situation of having held its primary under different maps than it will use in its general election.
We are approaching the Republican ideal of state legislatures that do nothing except strip Democratic governors and impartial judges of all their powers, approve ruinous corporate welfare for dodgy multinational corporations, and re-gerrymander state and Congressional election maps as frequently and microscopically as needed to ensure GOP majorities/supermajorities.
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Free link:
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Probably not difficult
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From Hamlet, Act I, sc. 2: “Seems, madam? Nay, it is, I know not “seems.” Please stop sugarcoating the criminality and corruption of this “Administration.”
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Did Donald give it from his own pocket or did it come from the taxpayers?
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Its Natalie Harp , who, along with two other aides, apparently got a Christmas gift of $45,000 from President Trump, per the Washington Post — a seeming violation of the law.
Laws are for little people.
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Can the costume designer for the Star Wars empire forces sue for design theft?
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Missouri, previously known as the “Show Me State,” now known as the “Show Me How F_cked Up We Are State.”
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“Competitive democracy does not offer the kind of stability and predictability that allow small investors and business people to confidently invest profitably.”
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Not the first time:
But it does seem to be the kind of iconography that comes from a certain kind of Republican.
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Yeah, I remember all the alleged assaults coming out of S. Cal. when DHS invaded it:
ICE tackles you, you assaulted them; ICE rams your vehicle, you assaulted them; ICE tazes or shoots you with a rubber bullet, you were assaulting them. On and on, a lot of allegations overturned in court.
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We here in the state of Misery have been under total Republican control for going on 25 years or more.
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These should be “never” events. Note that women in blue states also die from this. [Doctors and medical schools have their own biases and it affects care everywhere, especially for Black women.]
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