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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"Good footnote here from Kagan's dissent in tonight's WI ruling at SCOTUS"
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Matt Ford
@fordm
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Oct 26, 2020
Good footnote here from Kagan's dissent in tonight's WI ruling at SCOTUS, calling out Kavanaugh's Trumpian framework on late-arriving votes: https://scotusblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/20A66.pdf
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Matt Ford
@fordm
Kavanaugh favorably cites Bush v. Gore two pages later. So much for "limited to the present circumstances." (Kavanaugh worked on Bush's legal team in that case.)
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Matt Ford
@fordm
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Oct 26, 2020
Good footnote here from Kagan's dissent in tonight's WI ruling at SCOTUS, calling out Kavanaugh's Trumpian framework on late-arriving votes: https://scotusblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/20A66.pdf
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Matt Ford
@fordm
Kavanaugh favorably cites Bush v. Gore two pages later. So much for "limited to the present circumstances." (Kavanaugh worked on Bush's legal team in that case.)
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"Good footnote here from Kagan's dissent in tonight's WI ruling at SCOTUS" (Original Post)
Nevilledog
Oct 2020
OP
riversedge
(70,186 posts)1. the Constitution also says.............
Maru Kitteh
(28,339 posts)4. That right there.
THAT must be our way forward.
Desert grandma
(804 posts)6. Yes. This!
InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,122 posts)2. Got that right!!
FM123
(10,053 posts)3. I dissent too!
Blue Owl
(50,348 posts)5. K&R
pecosbob
(7,535 posts)7. We can limit the SC's power to intervene in legislation
moonscape
(4,673 posts)8. If they ever allow us to have power again.
This has been a scary night