#Constitutional

This judge in Assange’s extradition hearing is condemning wikileaks saying what they did is not freedom of speech, but rather justification to extradite Assange to the US. Judge appears to
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Why Trump can't steal the election in Michigan“It would take a lot of people violating their duty and not standing up for the law," constitutional law prof @sbagen tells @NBCNews
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Yesterday, Sierra Leone's Supreme Court summarily convicted lawyer & blogger, @Soe_Marrah, for criticising a decision of the court in a #socialmedia post. The circumstances of this case are so outrageous,
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Every healthy democracy in the world imposes checks & balances on the exercise of power. Those checks may be constitutional, legal, conventional or merely ethical, but they're crucial if democracy
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Good analysis by @robertwrighter Timeline1. Trump knows Pence will uphold his constitutional duties, but Trump does not tell crowd2. Trump says: Let’s see what Pence does3. After mob enters Capitol,
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Lots of stuff happened on Capitol Hill yesterday. All sorts of reflexivity and fertile fallacies. And, if you haven't figured it out yet, you are only allowed to believe one
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Trump backs down - on transition, on prosecuting MAGA rioters, on links to far right. Why? Because a felony was committed somewhere in the chain of command that led to
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Today’s summary reversal in Taylor v. Riojas is a big deal. In it, SCOTUS breathed new life into the notion that qualified immunity should be denied if the constitutional violation
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I *do* want to pick it apart!And... Wow. This is art.154 pages.One entry on the table of contents: "Motion for leave... page 1".1/ https://twitter.com/txnewsprincess/status/1336320870722097155 Typically one can sue a group
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Viral strains in the UK. See the orange bit which picks up in December and rapidly crowds out the competition?That strain is just getting going in Canada.We are going to
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Okay a long thread on my thoughts on Brexit.First thing to disabuse is this notion that our membership of the EU was “not an issue five years’ ago.” I imagine
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Some quotes on judicial misconduct – a ThreadWe don’t have any definition of the constitutional standard for removal so here are some interesting passages on that issue for context: ‘When
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Judge asks campaign lawyer if GOP observers are in the room or not.Lawyer says there "is a non-zero number" of them in the room.Judge, losing patience, asks, "Are people repping
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BREAKING: Drivers and consumers have filed a lawsuit over language in #Prop22 that unconstitutionally limits the power of state government and denies drivers their constitutional rights. #Prop22, written by @Uber,
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If you saw Fridays @UKColumn and my segment on the #RussiaGate document release, I can now add from initial reports that the Obama-Biden Admin, FBI & Media did in fact
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Be..Watch dogs with loud mouths and staying in the front as long as we can. Building our bonds with each other &continue to increase our numbers.Even if those of like
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