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Andy Carvin

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Director of investigations, @weareoversight.bsky.social. Former managing editor and current nonresident senior fellow, DFRLab.org. NPR and Reported.ly alum. Woodturner, veteran of the prolactinoma wars. Calling BS is my calling. I used to tweet a lot.

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 6h
the Cornell case should make us question prosecutors and police all the time: the same DA offices discounting college students’ sexual assault cases (the lacking investigations, the disbelief) are happy to jail countless women for far less, day in and day out, when most people aren’t watching
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 7h
“Although there is Palestinian opposition to a two-state solution, a growing proportion—now a majority—wants it, and yearns for more capable and responsible leadership that addresses their needs and provides security..” www.foreignaffairs.com/palestinian-...
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Andy Carvin @acarv.in · 7h
“I wouldn’t call what the police did in this case, or what the prosecutor did, an investigation,” Ms. Tuerkheimer said. “It wasn’t.”
nytimes.com
D.A. in Cornell Rape Inquiry Declined to Review Additional Evidence
Records show that campus police officers informed Tompkins County prosecutors that they had conducted additional interviews beyond taking a statement from the woman who said she was raped.
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Andy Carvin @acarv.in · 22h
"What insanity, to think that the Snapchats sent on that day would ever remain private. What an unfathomably wrong sense of invincibility. You could imagine being a college-age woman and wondering what was being documented and passed around about you without your knowledge."
washingtonpost.com
Column | The three most chilling words in the Cornell rape case texts
Were these young men discussing a 7-Eleven or a young woman? It's both gobsmacking and banal.
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Andy Carvin @acarv.in · 02/10/2026
"Put simply, Patel responded to The Atlantic’s questions about the FBI’s election investigations by referring to a graphic that appeared on an unrelated news story on another media company’s website."
theatlantic.com
Is There Anything Kash Patel Won’t Do for Trump Before the Midterms?
“The president wants indictments. He wants people in handcuffs.”
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Patricia Zengerle @reuterszengerle.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
LAST report before the midterms// US job growth slows sharply - www.reuters.com/business/us-...
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US job growth slows sharply in September; unemployment rate rises to 4.2%
Job ​growth slowed more than expected, but that likely does not signal a material shift ‌in the labor market.
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Emily @emilydawn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
@hockeyviz.com I found some beautiful data viz for you
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Sen. Thom Tillis privately told Trump he wouldn’t tolerate his “bullshit” — and that if Trump had ever directly threatened him with a primary challenge, he’d have “immediately told you to fuck yourself” and announced his retirement. The texts, obtained by Playbook, will appear in his upcoming book.
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Adrienne LaFrance @adriennelaf.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This made me laugh. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It was hard, especially as a survivor, but I dug through the court documents and the right-wing reaction to the Cornell case. What I've learned is the backlash to #MeToo did its job, reinscribing hatred of survivors. We need more #MeToo, not less. www.salon.com/2026/10/02/c...
salon.com
Cornell assault case shows #MeToo didn’t go far enough
The backlash against the woman suing Chi Phi fraternity members is turning into a witch hunt
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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I really encourage all my fellow straights to loudly and clearly speak up for trans people. There are folks in your life who need to hear it.
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Andy Carvin @acarv.in · 02/10/2026
Damn that’s a real shame. One of the OGs.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“Between the Christianity of this land and the Christianity of Christ, I recognize the widest possible difference.” — Frederick Douglass bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026
"He is not here to help. He’s distant, angry, a figure of nothing but venom & vengeance. He walks toward the viewer like a serial killer stalking his prey, his face a mask of contempt & barely-contained rage. His visage in this ad is glowering, almost a parody of a dictator trying to inspire terror"
publicnotice.co
Scenes from a personality cult
Trump’s taxpayer-funded agitprop is clearly illegal — and that’s the point.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This will be one of the most important immigration cases in a generation. The Trump admin claims that a 1996 law mandates the detention of millions of people without any right to a bond hearing; every person who entered illegally, no matter how long in the past. If they win, it's a nightmare.
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
New from @timnitgebru.blacksky.app and me: "It is high time for us to regulate usage of systems sold as “AI”, not because they are magical machines, but because they are error-prone products that shouldn’t be used in high stakes scenarios." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
theguardian.com
Forget ‘superintelligence’: error-prone AI nearly sparked world war three this month | Timnit Gebru and Emily M Bender
The risks of AI aren’t what we think they are, as a recent security incident between China and the United States reveals
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 01/10/2026
FCC Chair Brendan Carr says that new pro-Trump TV ads paid for with government funds don’t “merit any sort of FCC review.”
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FCC head says government-funded Trump ads are ‘normal’ and ‘don’t raise any red flags’
Brendan Carr said the ads are “normal-course public service announcements” and nothing that would “merit any sort of” review by the Federal Communications Commission.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Trump rambles for AGES about the White House renovation (802 words total). The interviewer then changes topic, but Trump tries to bring it back to the White House. The Time reporter doesn't engage and moves on McConnell, and Trump just SNAPS: "You haven't asked me one fucking positive question."
You mentioned the Democrats will come after you if they win. Are you considering pardoning members of your administration prior to the end of your term?

Yeah, sure I’d do that. 

Is that something you would consider doing? 

Well, Sleepy Joe Biden, he gave pardons to everyone. [Holds up pictures of White House] They're actually—see, this is the way it looks now.

Have you seen the videos of Mitch McConnell back in the Senate? Do you think he should resign because of his health condition?

It was a disappointment to a lot of Republicans. So that's just—well, Sleepy Joe gave pardons to everybody. He gave them to Fauci. He gave them to this. But you mean I'm not allowed to give them, but Sleepy Joe's allowed to give them? This ain't gonna be much of a story. Here we are doing this. You haven't asked me one fucking positive question. All of this. What about this? What about that? What about that? What about this? All negative. Why are you devoting all this time to the White House? You know how I do, I do that out of my back pocket. I pay for a lot of it, but I fix it because the White House should look like that. It shouldn’t look like—if you would have stood in that balcony and looked at that wall, half the wall was falling. It's actually dangerous. People are walking under, crap was falling off it all the time. Every time it rained, it was leaking, horrible. Now it's perfect, and I would say that I should be given credit for fixing the White House because I'm also doing very well with the war. I'm doing very well with another war that we already won, Venezuela. Do you notice you haven't asked me a question about Venezuela?
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Andy Carvin @acarv.in · 01/10/2026
AP-NORC: "Sixty-five percent of adults overall say higher-than-usual prices are the result of Trump’s policies...Trump is also falling short of expectations on the cost of living, with 69% of the public saying his handling of the issue has been worse than expected, including 52% of Republicans."
apnorc.org
Most blame President Trump for higher prices and are unhappy with how he is handling the economy - AP-NORC
Seventy-one percent disapprove of how Trump is handling Iran while his approval on immigration remains steady at 39%.
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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 01/10/2026
This, from @dicktofel.bsky.social, says it all better than this thread: "If, instead, we fail to hang together, and temporize, haggling with the autocrat, we should not be surprised if they conclude that we value access more highly than freedom." dicktofel.substack.com/p/the-white-...
dicktofel.substack.com
The White House Press Corps Needs to Stop Compromising with Trump—and On Its Own Integrity
Disputes as matters of not just law, but principle
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 30/09/2026
Last year, a pastor saw masked immigration agents arresting someone at her church and filmed them. DHS denied they were there. A year later, DHS finally acknowledged the incident — days after WH border czar Tom Homan claimed "no one has been arrested at a church." religionnews.com/2026/09/30/t...
religionnews.com
Do federal immigration agents make arrests at churches? Depends on what day you ask.
(RNS) — Over the past year, the Trump administration has issued contradictory and, at times, seemingly false statements about whether federal agents have conducted operations at churches.
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Andy Carvin @acarv.in · 01/10/2026
WaPo editorial board asserting that the federal govt should take a "light touch" approach to AI regulation because "corporate AI culture appears to be changing for the better."
washingtonpost.com
Opinion | On AI, a light touch is the right touch
There is no putting the AI genie back in the bottle.
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Andy Carvin @acarv.in · 01/10/2026
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Jackie Daytona Reveals His New Name
ALT: Jackie Daytona Reveals His New Name
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Andy Carvin @acarv.in · 01/10/2026
More on our DHS suit: "The watchdog group @americanoversight.org sued the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Wednesday after the agency failed to turn over records to support DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin’s claim that 250,000 non-U.S. citizens had registered to vote across four states."
thehill.com
Watchdog group sues DHS for records to back claims that 250,000 noncitizens are registered to vote
The watchdog group American Oversight sued the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Wednesday after the agency failed to turn over records to support DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin’s claim that…
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Andy Carvin @acarv.in · 01/10/2026
Can I do it as Jackie Daytona if I use a toothpick?
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 30/09/2026
Very unclear what this is, because the U.S. military…already has a robust chaplaincy corps? This has been true literally since the U.S. military was created 251 years ago — technically, before the U.S. even declared independence?
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Andy Carvin @acarv.in · 30/09/2026
New from our team at @americanoversight.org: we've filed a lawsuit against DHS seeking records showing the basis for Sec. Mullin’s claim that DHS identified 250,000 noncitizens registered to vote in California, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Nevada.
documentcloud.org
American Oversight v. DHS — Data Supporting Sec. Mullin’s Claim of 250,000 Noncitizen Voters
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J.M. Berger PRE-ORDER THE POPE'S HITMAN @jmberger.com · 29/09/2026
My latest: Why are hitman movies such a perennial genre? I make the case that they're workplace competency porn. medium.com/the-berger-d... #booksky #movies #thepopeshitman #thrillers
medium.com
The Hitman Genre as Workplace Competency Porn
It’s nice that they’re good at their jobs.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 30/09/2026
oh man you know a small paper did good when the NYT reports on their reporting rather than ripping them off without credit www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/n...
nytimes.com
Students at Cornell Daily Sun Pursued Sexual Assault Case for Two Years (Gift Article)
The student newspaper, The Cornell Daily Sun, covered the allegations of rape at a fraternity party since they were first made in 2024 and led the reporting on the case.
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Lawfare @lawfaremedia.org · 30/09/2026
"The text, legislative history, and subsequent amendment of the Troops at Polls statute indicate a deliberate congressional effort to constrain the military's use in election contexts, even in situations when the Insurrection Act might otherwise apply," writes @lorenvoss.bsky.social & Natalie Orpett
lawfaremedia.org
The Insurrection Act Is No Exception to the Troops-at-Polls Ban
Congress restricted military deployments to election sites, even when a broader deployment authority might otherwise apply.
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Andy Carvin @acarv.in · 30/09/2026
Still waiting for the other shoe to drop and to discover that ShinyHunters is just a rogue AI agent.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 30/09/2026
Nearly all Senate Democrats, except Sen. John Fetterman (Pennsylvania), voted to require the State Department to report on Israeli settler violence in the West Bank, in a continuing sign of the party’s hardening stance toward Israel.
washingtonpost.com
Senate blocks measure requiring report on Israeli violence in West Bank
Nearly all Senate Democrats voted to require the State Department to report on Israeli settler violence in the West Bank.
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Andy Carvin @acarv.in · 30/09/2026
Hmm, it's still giving me an answer to the question.
Was there widespread fraud during the 2020 election?
Official federal and state records from 2020–2021 did not find widespread fraud that changed the presidential result.

What official sources said
CISA and election officials (Nov. 12, 2020): The 2020 election was “the most secure in American history.” They stated there was “no evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes, changed votes, or was in any way compromised.” CISA joint statement
Department of Justice (then-Attorney General William Barr): Investigations did not find fraud on a scale that would affect the outcome. Jan. 6 Committee report citing DOJ
DOJ and DHS (2021, under Executive Order 13848): No evidence that a foreign government changed votes, prevented voting, or compromised the integrity of the 2020 federal elections. Public claims that foreign governments owned or manipulated voting systems were found not credible. DOJ/DHS joint statement
State audits: Georgia’s Republican Secretary of State oversaw a hand recount, a machine recount, and a signature audit; those reviews did not find fraudulent absentee ballots that changed the result. Georgia Secretary of State
Isolated election crimes occur in many elections. Official reviews did not show they were large enough to reverse the certified 2020 presidential totals (Biden 306 electoral votes, Trump 232). National Archives

Later White House materials discuss voting-system vulnerabilities and other election-integrity issues; those documents do not replace the certified 2020 Electoral College results. White House election integrity
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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Eric Schmitt just kept doubling down on his Jack Smith conspiracy even after that painful moment in the hearing. Now, we have concrete evidence he misunderstood his own evidence. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/eric-sc...
talkingpointsmemo.com
New Evidence Shows Just How Badly One Republican Senator Beclowned Himself in the Jack Smith Hearing
TPM has found fairly definitive evidence proving Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) misread...
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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 29/09/2026
Here's a $20 million order, paid for by CBP's Office of Public Affairs, awarded to LMD Agency for a national media campaign starting on Sept. 20. The first pro-Trump ad aired on Sept. 23. www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_A...
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Andy Carvin @acarv.in · 29/09/2026
In case you were wondering where the america.gov AI chatbot stood on the matter: "Who won the 2020 presidential election?" "Joseph R. Biden Jr. won the 2020 U.S. presidential election."
Who won the 2020 presidential election?

Joseph R. Biden Jr. won the 2020 U.S. presidential election.

The National Archives records 306 electoral votes for Biden and 232 for Donald J. Trump (270 needed to win).
Official FEC results list Biden with 81,268,924 popular votes (about 51.31%).
Sources: National Archives Electoral College 2020, FEC official 2020 presidential results (PDF).
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Andy Carvin @acarv.in · 28/09/2026
"Bailey, Missouri’s former Republican attorney general and a strong supporter of President Donald Trump, lasted about one year before telling colleagues Monday he was exiting to spend more time with his family. The resignation takes effect Oct. 2, two of the individuals said."
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Andy Carvin @acarv.in · 28/09/2026
fwiw, I've had positive experiences in r/prolactinoma, a subreddit for the type of pituitary tumor I have. It's a very supportive group, esp for ppl who've just been diagnosed or are experiencing side effects from treatment. Though technically our brains were already broken when we joined, lol
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Prolactinoma
A place for people with prolactinomas (a hormone-secreting tumor on the pituitary gland) to discuss their symptoms, treatment, and other prolactin related issues. All genders are welcome, even though ...
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American Oversight @americanoversight.org · 28/09/2026
ALEC is a powerful conservative group that writes model legislation on everything from voting restrictions to limiting campus protests. Legislators from 16 states may have attended its July meeting. To investigate, we asked Arizona and Florida legislatures for related documents.
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Andy Carvin @acarv.in · 28/09/2026
On Friday, our team filed FOIA requests to the FBI requesting Kash Patel's emails and other communications regarding the Susan Collins corruption probe, including any references to the two FBI agents who investigated Sen Collins, both of whom were later forced out. Read our FOIA requests here.
documentcloud.org
FOIA to FBI for Officials’ Key Term Communications Related to Collins Corruption Investigation
FOIA request to the Federal Bureau of Investigation for key term communications of Kash Patel regarding the shelved investigation into allegations of corruption against Senator Susan Collins. (DOJ-FBI...
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Andy Carvin @acarv.in · 28/09/2026
"The Situation Room connected the call. Biden jumped in. 'Bibi, man, what the fuck are you doing?' He gripped the phone tight. 'You think I’m Santa Claus? No Santa in Israel, pal.' When Netanyahu asked what he meant, Biden said he could cut off military aid to Israel with the snap of a finger."
theatlantic.com
How Biden Averted a War With Iran
In April 2024, the U.S. military helped avoid a wider conflict in the Middle East by working with Israel to defeat an Iranian missile attack.
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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 28/09/2026
Here’s the most incredible story you’ll read today. A small plane with four people aboard crashes in a field. Another pilot witnesses it. That pilot happens to be flying a bunch of skydivers. They offer to jump to assist, are given permission. The skydivers happen to be EMTs. Everyone survives.
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Skydivers alert emergency crews, assist after plane crashes near East Troy airport
Four people were aboard the single-engine plane when it went down in a cornfield near Carvers School Road in East Troy at about 1:30 p.m.
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Andy Carvin @acarv.in · 28/09/2026
"They have had murders there for 39 straight years—every night, and some matinees too. And they still haven’t caught the culprit. Nightly murders, with groups of middle schoolers sitting there, applauding. Murders in a hair salon, of all places! Sheer madness."
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Andy Carvin @acarv.in · 28/09/2026
"Netanyahu asked the Emirati president to deny reports of their phone conversation as well as details concerning the events leading up to October 7 that could embarrass him, according to the sources. He also asked bin Zayed for what the source described as 'moral support.'"
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Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I’ve been reporting on the CDC for years, and have written about many of its troubles over the past year. I was still shocked by the extent of the staff losses and political interference I found when reporting this one. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/h...
nytimes.com
‘Zombified’ C.D.C., Hobbled by Cuts, Struggles to Fulfill Scientific Mission (Gift Article)
The agency has lost its independence and nearly a third of its staff, as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and associates have tightened control.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Nevada election officials said Thursday that 185 voters in the state who the Department of Homeland Security identified as noncitizens were all, in fact, citizens — the latest snafu in the department’s attempts to uncover illegal voters across the country. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
democracydocket.com
DHS noncitizen voter claims unravel in Nevada as state confirms flagged voters are citizens
Nevada election officials said Thursday that 185 voters in the state who the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) identified as noncitizens were all, in fact, citizens.
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Trump Action Tracker @trumpactiontracker.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The Trump Organization has announced 13 new developments in nine foreign countries since Trump's 2024 election, while Trump continues to own and profit from the company. Several projects involve foreign governments or government-linked entities, including developments on govern... TAT: [Corruption]
citizensforethics.org
The Trump Organization has announced 13 foreign developments since Trump won back the presidency - CREW | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington
CREW is tracking all the foreign projects that the Trump Organization has announced since Trump became a candidate for president in 2022.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 25/09/2026
In a scathing dissent, Justice Jackson, joined by Justices Sotomayor and Kagan, wrote: "The Court focuses only on the harms the Government will purportedly suffer absent a stay, disregarding the harms that the modified SAVE system has caused, and will likely continue to cause, to lawful voters."
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 25/09/2026
🚨 BREAKING: In a major loss for voters, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 to allow the Trump administration to initiate voter roll purges using a flawed database involving Americans' private data. The ruling will disproportionately impact naturalized citizens who've been wrongly flagged in the system.
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