Ron Nelson

Ron Nelson

@ronels.bsky.social

Lawyer, Constitutionalist. Kansas Progressive. I think. Therefore, I am not a Republican.

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Democracy dies with solitude

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The protests are not for Trump to see, they are so you can all see each other and grow. It's not the protest itself that tyrants are afraid of, but the networks and community you can grow from them. Your strength is your unity and that's why the enemy thrives by demoralizing and dividing you. #3E

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A judge recently said she was “furious” and “beyond disappointed” as she grilled Trump’s DOJ over whether they lied about plans to overhaul a historic golf course in D.C. It could signal that the “presumption of regularity” days are coming to an end: https://demdock.com/47VYRlH

“In an unprecedented pre-emptive strike on democratic elections, the Department of Justice—acting on the President’s personal orders—demands that this Court enjoin the certification of the ongoing U.S. Senate election, but only if the President’s preferred candidate loses,” the filing says.

Vox@vox.com

Trump’s lawyers want to block Alaska Democrat Mary Peltola’s victory in an election that is more than a week away. www.vox.com/politics/507...

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Govt succinctly lays down its marker: POTUS can gut any citizen's lawsuit to enforce federal environmental laws, despite Congress's express intent. (From filing to dismiss NAACP's Clean Air Act suit against Musk's gas-turbine-powered Colossus datacenter near Memphis.)

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NEW: Watchdog group Democracy Forward asks court to expand its halt on Trump taxpayer-funded TV ads to block ads from social media & YouTube They argue govt staff are helping produce “advertisements fawning over President Trump and attacking his ideological opponents”

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Get rid of the traitors

CNN@cnn.com

President Donald Trump said that restoration work on the Washington, DC golf course that has become wrapped up in litigation will begin November 15, despite a federal judge’s order last week for tree clearing at the site to be paused until October 26. https://cnn.it/4Bcxy3R

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Over the past year, the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division has sued 30 states and the District of Columbia to demand their unredacted voter rolls. Again and again, the cases have been thrown out: propub.li/4zG7n3T

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Three weeks before Election Day, Trump’s DOJ is trying to stop California from counting ballots based on unproven claims about noncitizen voters. Is the real goal to win in court—or to lay the groundwork for claiming another stolen election? My analysis: joycevance.substack.com/p/doj-v-cali...

joycevance.substack.comDOJ v. CaliforniaDesperate to avoid an embarrassing loss in the midterms, Trump is still trying to find a way to use his false claims about “illegal immigrants” voting to interfere with mail-in voting, even after the ...

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Republican politicians are *obsessed* with schoolchildren coming home a different gender because of pro-trans teachers, WHICH NEVER HAPPENS. But they are completely indifferent to schoolchildren not coming home *at all* because of guns, WHICH HAPPENS ALL THE TIME!

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Thirty years ago, Susan Collins promised Maine voters she’d serve only two terms. Now she’s a multimillionaire asking them for a sixth. Her current net worth is estimated to be roughly $6.8 million. Not bad for a Senate salary of $174,000 per year.

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‼️ Trump’s taxpayer-funded ad campaign is part of an effort to improperly influence an ongoing election as Republicans struggle to keep control of Congress, according to a new DNC lawsuit. “Fundamentally, the ads undermine free and fair elections,” Democrats said: https://demdock.com/4yeugu6

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Over the course of an hour-plus hearing, US District Judge Timothy Kelly signaled skepticism about the Trump administration’s arguments for allowing President Donald Trump to ban CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House. https://cnn.it/474mHLz

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NEW: Government watchdog groups file for emergency restraining order in New York to halt Trump taxpayer-funded TV ads "Despite public statements implying otherwise, defendants continue to run partisan political ads, funded by US taxpayers, in this midst of the ongoing.. federal election period"

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“The great privilege of America does not consist in their being more enlightened than other nations, but in their ability to correct the mistakes they may commit.” - Alexis de Tocqueville, 1830 The correction begin in 28 days.

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GOP Sen. Tillis: Anytime a president makes a billion dollars in the same year that people that are growing up in a trailer park, it's a bad look

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‘Ciao’ comes from a shortening of a northern Italian word meaning, literally, "slave." It was used as a polite greeting meaning something along the lines of “I am your servant.”