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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy @profciara.bsky.social · 6h

This is what we call a false dichotomy.

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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy @profciara.bsky.social · 7h

And wondered about the missing kid on the milk carton 🥛

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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy @profciara.bsky.social · 8h

Isn’t that all the more reason to be squeaky clean? 🧼

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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy @profciara.bsky.social · 9h

👋 My advice is vote early and in person if your state offers it. Vote early to avoid an hours long line on Election Day. Vote in person so that signature matching doesn’t bounce your ballot. Also voting in person avoids any postal delays. 🗳️

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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy @profciara.bsky.social · 9h

Why why why would you want to go down in history as 1. The owner of an Epstein property? & 2. Worse yet the owner of an Epstein property that is trying to block an inquiry into whether there are any bodies buried there? 🚨⚖️👇

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SMH @segdohs.bsky.social · 9h

Her name is straight out of Thomas Pynchon.

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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy @profciara.bsky.social · 11h

Good grief. If anything arguably the pool coverage is what raises antitrust issues not suspending the pool. Any antitrust experts want to weigh in on this? 🙄⚖️

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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy @profciara.bsky.social · 11h

Watch out for this tomfoolery. 👀🗳️👇

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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy @profciara.bsky.social · 15h

Amazing work by old timey jewelers👩‍🍳💋💍

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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy @profciara.bsky.social · 15h

Sometimes qpq are hard to prove and sometimes you have the texts. 🤔

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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy @profciara.bsky.social · 22h

That decision was wild but only because what the judge was describing as DOJ’s & DHS’s behavior was even wilder. (I quoted extensively from the opinion last night as I read it in real time. www.democracydocket.com/wp-content/u...) ✅⚖️

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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy @profciara.bsky.social · 23h

You never let me foster a baby wombat.

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 09/10/2026

Hard to overstate how much Hegseth's execution stream mirrors the U.S. military's traditional description of ISIS propaganda: broadcast killings designed to send a message, strike fear and create a social media spectacle. Will almost certainly be repurposed by online terror cells

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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy @profciara.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Reminder there are 85 year olds who are outstanding. ☮️🥇👇

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Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

UPDATE: Judge April Perry denies the government's bid to keep all of this under seal — including the attorney's signature block. "The government has also publicly disclosed … that there is an OPR investigation in this case."

MINUTE entry before the Honorable April M. Perry: The Government's motion to seal 275 is denied. As already noted, the grand jury transcripts in this matter have already been made public - without any opposition from the Government. The Government has also publicly disclosed - in both court filings and open court - the fact that there is an OPR investigation in this case involving the prosecutors who were in the grand jury. See, e.g., Doc. 247 at 48-49. In addition to those two matters, the Government has also asked to seal the "Legal Principles" section of its motion, which sets forth basic principles of law, and the signature block of one of its attorneys. There is a presumption that materials that underpin a judicial decision are open to public inspection unless they meet very specific criteria. See Baxter Intern., Inc. v. Abbott Laboratories, 297 F.3d 544, 545 (7th Cir. 2002). No such criteria are present here. The Clerk of Court is directed to unseal 272 . Mailed notice. (jcc,) (Entered: 10/09/2026)

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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy @profciara.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

She hasn’t gone after anyone. She’s been appointed by the governor to investigate. ⚖️

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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy @profciara.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

When your parents yell at you for getting a belly button piercing tell them they are at least two millennia too late. ⏰ 😉👇

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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy @profciara.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I gave a tv interview about money in politics today. They were kind enough to mention my book Corporatocracy. ✍🏾📖💵🗳️⚖️ m.youtube.com/watch?v=668t...

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The Heat: Money in U.S. politics | Influence on the vote

YouTube video by CGTN America

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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy @profciara.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Just as an aside this cite to NFIB v. OSHA is 👩‍🍳💋 because this is the awful opinion that prevented a covid-19 vaccines in many workplaces. But here this judge uses this precedent for good to bolster democracy. 👩‍⚖️✅🗳️

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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy @profciara.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

✅🗳️⚖️ “Accordingly, the Court sets aside and vacates DOJ’s Voter List Maintenance Policy.” fin. Read it yourself here www.democracydocket.com/wp-content/u...

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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy @profciara.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

“Having concluded that the Voter List Maintenance Policy exceeds DOJ’s statutory authority in numerous respects, is arbitrary and capricious, and is contrary to law, the Court must set it aside.” ✅🗳️⚖️

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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy @profciara.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

“DOJ cannot evade the Privacy Act’s free-speech protections by attempting a dragnet investigation of the entire country. There is no doubt that DOJ’s Voter List Maintenance Policy violates the Privacy Act’s prohibition on maintaining records of protected First Amendment activity.” 👀🗳️⚖️

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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy @profciara.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

“In sum, no statute justifies the Civil Rights Division’s unprecedented Voter List Maintenance Policy. And of course, “[a]dministrative agencies are creatures of statute” that “possess only the authority that Congress has provided.” NFIB v. OSHA, 595 U.S. 109, 117 (2022).” ✅🗳️⚖️

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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy @profciara.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

“Consistent with our constitutional structure, the NVRA and HAVA place states at the helm of maintaining their voter rolls... nothing in those statutes empowers DOJ to demand SVRLs [voter info] from states.” ✅🗳️⚖️

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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy @profciara.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

“For all these reasons, this Court must set aside the Voter List Maintenance Policy under the APA.” ✅🗳️⚖️

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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy @profciara.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

“DOJ also violated the Privacy Act by improperly disclosing records, maintaining records without a reasonable effort to ensure their accuracy, and unlawfully retaining records of First Amendment protected activity without statutory authorization.” 🚨🗳️⚖️

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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy @profciara.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

“the administrative record makes clear that in adopting the policy, DOJ entirely failed to consider the risk that its use of citizenship records known to be unreliable would lead the Civil Rights Division to demand that states remove U.S. citizens from their voter rolls.” 🗳️⚖️

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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy @profciara.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

“the Defendants have failed to show that any statute—including the 1960 Civil Rights Act, the NVRA, and HAVA—authorizes DOJ to collect and share unredacted statewide voter rolls.” #DOJ

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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy @profciara.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

“if an individual received a SS# while a noncitizen—as the law permits—and that individual later became a U.S. citizen …SSA records would likely misclassify her as a noncitizen. …A 2006 SSA audit found … 3.3 million people misidentified U.S. citizens as noncitizens.” ‼️⚖️

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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy @profciara.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

“After obtaining unredacted SVRLs [voter info] from the states who volunteered them, the Civil Rights Division shared that data with the DHS. In turn, DHS would run that data through the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) system administered by the USCIS, a component of DHS.” 🤨⚖️

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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy @profciara.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

“At least 18 states fully cooperated… But others refused, leading DOJ to file a bevy of lawsuits seeking to compel compliance. To date, every court to rule on motions to dismiss filed by state defendants have dismissed DOJ’s enforcement actions.” 🗳️⚖️

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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy @profciara.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

”the [DOJ] began requesting states’ unredacted voter rolls, disclosing the lists to other federal agencies, comparing them against a federal database to identify purportedly ineligible voters, and demanding that states remove voters from their rolls based on the results of those comparisons.” 🚨🗳️⚖️

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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy @profciara.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

“When the federal government defies federal laws, our system of checks and balances permits individuals to turn to federal courts for recourse. And if they prevail, courts are duty-bound to step in under the Constitution.” ✅🗳️⚖️

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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy @profciara.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

“ the Court vacates a policy that has removed United States citizens from the voter rolls in their home states and risks disenfranchising many more—a policy that flies in the face of duly enacted laws designed to protect Americans.” 🗳️⚖️

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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy @profciara.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

“DOJ cannot run roughshod over longstanding laws that were carefully crafted to protect the rights of the American people. The Civil Rights Division’s policy is unlawful in several respects. the Defendants’ claimed authorities—Civil Rights Act, the NVRA, and the HAVA—do not authorize the policy.” 🗳️⚖️

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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy @profciara.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

✅🗳️⚖️ “Behind all the window dressing, the challenged policy represents the federal government’s attempt to decide who gets to vote. But Congress has left that authority where our Constitution has always placed it: with the states.” #DOJ

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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy @profciara.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

This is wild & deeply alarming from this good opinion: “[DOJ] suggest[s] that every American citizen who registers to vote is the subject of a voter fraud investigation underway in the Civil Rights Division simply because they registered to vote.” 👀⚖️

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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy @profciara.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Good looking bird. I think this is his cousin. 🪶👇 #birdsky

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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy @profciara.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This is good news. U.S. District Judge Sooknanan vacated what DOJ internally called its “list maintenance project,” finding that the department exceeded its statutory authority and violated federal law. ✅🗳️⚖️ www.democracydocket.com/wp-content/u...

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