Anthony Michael Kreis
@AnthonyMKreis
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Constitutional law professor, political scientist | Dawg & Tar Heel | Author of Rot and Revival: The History of Constitutional Law in American Political Dev. ⬇️
Atlanta, GA
Joined March 2012
🎉🍾PUBLICATION DAY! 🎉🥳. After years, my @ucpress book, Rᴏᴛ ᴀɴᴅ Rᴇᴠɪᴠᴀʟ: Tʜᴇ Hɪsᴛᴏʀʏ ᴏғ Cᴏɴsᴛɪᴛᴜᴛɪᴏɴᴀʟ Lᴀᴡ ɪɴ Aᴍᴇʀɪᴄᴀɴ Pᴏʟɪᴛɪᴄᴀʟ Dᴇᴠᴇʟᴏᴘᴍᴇɴᴛ, is out in the world! So grateful for all the support that made it possible.
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If you were mad about racism within British royalty, let me tell y’all about a few bills in the Georgia legislature being voted on today.
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I can’t believe the GOP is running an old guy for president. Yikes.
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The more I read the draft, the more it is apparent that the Court is a half step away from letting states criminalize same-sex sexual intimacy.
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She was also a lesbian in a relationship for nearly three decades— a relationship that you opposed granting legal recognition to for years as an elected official and that your Administration continues to demean through litigation.
Today, the @USPS dedicates the Sally Ride forever stamp to commemorate the first American woman to travel to space. Her courageous career as an astronaut and scientist inspired a nation.
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We used to give medals and promotions for this.
22y/o James Blitch from Atlanta was arrested after making a 3 hour long trek to South Carolina to lower the Confederate flag that flies over I-85 south.
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So, @TheOnion filed an amicus brief before the Supreme Court in defense of parody under the First Amendment… and it’s exactly what you’d expect.
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The Supreme Court is likely to announce a decision on President Joe Biden’s student debt forgiveness plan in the coming weeks.
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I say this as someone who loathes overstating the gravity of constitutional decisions in historical terms: This has been the worst Supreme Court term for American democracy since Reconstruction.
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These frame shots are within the first 30 seconds. And that’s all I need to know.
ABC News: ‘There is no evidence of migrants eating pets’. YouTuber: ‘Here’s 30 minutes of firsthand accounts of residents in Springfield Ohio where many who live there say the pets are disappearing’ . ABC News: ‘Let’s talk about climate change…’.
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wow ---> Justice Jackson: why can't an applicant's racial identity and family background be honored in the same way a family is honored-- and benefitted-- through a legacy admissions policy?.
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Listen, if Congress wanted to give the power to the EPA to keep our air clean, they would have provided a clearer title for the law than the "Clean Air Act.".
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This might be the most perfect political ad.
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Let us be clear. The DOJ informed POTUS that the National Security Advisor was compromised and nothing was done until it became public.
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Unbelievable that Supreme Court justices who see forgiving student loans, mandating vaccines, and regulating climate change as a slippery slope toward tyranny were not clear-eyed on questions of whether a president could execute citizens or stage a coup without being prosecuted.
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Burr and Loeffler should resign. As should any Democrat who did the same thing.
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My understanding is that you can call Marco Rubio or Ivanka Trump to babysit for free under his plan.
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Happy first day of the Supreme Court term to all who don’t celebrate.
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"It's not an illegal lottery because it was fraud!"
from Philly courtroom —. Musk lawyer says his $1m giveaway is NOT a lottery. "There is no prize to be won" and winners "are not chosen at random," Musk lawyer Chris Gober said. Instead, the $1m is a salary they "earn" to be a spokesperson for Musk's pro-Trump super PAC. Winners.
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I don't lightly call for the expulsion of a member of the United States Senate. But, what we're witnessing from @HawleyMO is the willful feeding of a conspiracy theory to give comfort to the cause of insurrectionists. It cannot occur in a modern democracy with impunity.
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We need to talk about what overturning Roe and Casey means for women who are in abusive relationships. Men will be able to hold abortions over a partner's head or threaten reporting them for reproductive health care or miscarriages. The state will be a party to domestic violence.
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"It was definitely a Democrat plant. When asked him, he didn't want to answer. He didn't give reporters his name. " -- @NikkiHaley on question re: cause of Civil War at last night's town hall in Berlin, NH. @NHGOP #FITN.
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Let us be clear: PrEP is essential to combating the transmission of HIV and keeping the public healthy. Today's ruling from Texas is an example of every person becoming a law unto themself in the name of religion but for the sole purpose of subordinating gay men and trans women.
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LGBTQ Republicans say they feel misled by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) after the GOP presidential hopeful’s “war room” shared a bizarre video which bashed Trump’s support for the LGBTQ community.
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Birthright citizenship is a foundational concept in American constitutional law. It is a betrayal of the 14th Amendment to suggest otherwise or that it can be discarded with ease. We settled any doubt about this in Wong Kim Ark in 1898. We should not budge one solitary inch.
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Election boards must certify results, despite new Georgia rules, Fulton judge says
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Darrell Issa defending MTG by invoking the image of former Confederates serving in Congress after the Civil War is not making the point he thinks.
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Clarence Thomas: Sorry about my ineptitude filling out these forms. Fixed it! nbd. Also Clarence Thomas: Too bad your lawyer was incompetent but you made a mistake filing your appeal so that death sentence is still good. Sorry!.
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This draft opinion overturning Roe and Casey is not just an imminent threat to women— it is a broad attack on the right to privacy and the fundamental rights enjoyed by women and sexual minorities. Nobody is safe from the United States Supreme Court’s radicalism. Nobody.
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If Florida is actually within 3 points, Georgia is gone for Trump.
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Right wing pundits: ~doctors have nothing to worry about~. Indiana Attorney General: we’re collecting evidence and investigating the doctor who gave health care to a 10-year-old rape victim
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Back to grading my Constitutional Law exam. Consequently, I should just award every student an A because law isn't real.
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Folks will throw "perjury" around a lot today-- I will resist coming to such conclusions knowing the high bar for proving it-- but what can be said without a doubt: MTG is a deceitfully evasive witness lacking in credibility. #gapol.
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A conviction was never required under the 14th Amendment. In fact, Jefferson Davis was never tried for treason yet nobody would have denied he was disqualified under Section 3. As I wrote in the NYT “There were vanishingly few arrests, trials and lengthy punishments” for rebels.
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SUPREME COURT: DISCRIMINATION AGAINST EMPLOYEES BECAUSE OF THEIR SEXUAL ORIENTATION OR BECAUSE THEY ARE TRANSGENDER IS UNLAWFUL UNDER TITLE VII OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1964.
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It should not go unnoticed that ads targeting things said and done in Black churches seem to be fair game in politics, but criticisms of white evangelicals’ positions on social issues are often reflexively deemed an attack on religious liberty or Christianity itself.
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Supreme Court: A little coup is okay so long as it is an internal executive branch discussion.
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Atlanta breaking out in cheers after the election is called for Biden.
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Folks should remember real people live in Georgia and would not like to be represented by an unqualified, lying, violent, domestic abuser whose only draw is a successful college football career that ended years before I was born— no matter how many votes Dems have in the Senate.
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Mike Pence is telling Chuck Todd that his next vision is for constitutional fetal personhood. So, good luck in 2024, GOP.
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The gold standard Wisconsin (A+/🐐) poll is here. Marquette Law School Poll, LVs . 🔵Harris 52% .🔴Trump 48%.
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This is a level of petty legal compliance I aspire to.
Man who kept his boat besides his house was ordered from the city to put up a fence to hide the boat from view. So he built the fence and hired someone to paint it.
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You can make that entire NABJ Trump interview into an effective 60 second ad and blast it all over Metro Atlanta and GA-2 with ease.
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🚨🚨Add witness tampering to the potential predicate acts for a Georgia RICO charge. O.C.G.A. § 16-10-93. This is blatantly unlawful stuff. #gapol
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If Biden really is stepping aside and wanted to be an absolute icon, he’d do it at 8pm tonight.
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I have this image of Tim Walz wandering around a Menards waiting for a phone call from Harris.
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I’ve been warning y’all.
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Every time you say “guilty” to describe a civil trial verdict, a law professor loses their wings.
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This is basically every Trump interview at this point.
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Some people should be drummed out of polite society in 2022. She’s first.
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The cable news networks are treating the Georgia Senate race as a neck-and-neck thing right now, but anyone who knows anything about Georgia politics and doesn't have a reason to keep you tuned in is going to tell you a different story. Walker's campaign is on borrowed time.
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Ohio should look at this insanity and vote accordingly. Conspiracy peddling has real consequences. You can’t unring that bell. Donald Trump and JD Vance don’t care.
NEW -- Springfield City School District tells ABC News that they've evacuated two elementary schools: Perrin Woods and Snowhill Elementary. They're currently releasing those students to their parents.
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Love Marsha Blackburn complaining about taxing billionaires to fund federal programs as not helping anyone while her governor proposes giving half a billion to a football team.
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Senator Loeffler not only invested in telecommuting, she sold shares in retail stores including Lululemon and T.J. Maxx and "invested in a company that makes COVID-19 protective garments."
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Allowing rushed voter purges days before an election that will knowingly sweep up some eligible voters in the mix is an absolute disgrace. But that's what this Supreme Court does.
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Donald Trump published an ad calling for the execution of the Central Park Five before any trial, but yeah, Maxine Waters is the problem.
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The fact that there is an honest debate about whether a major presidential candidate signaled that he intends on ending democracy and we have to parse his words is a problem itself.
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It seems like Ronna McDaniel could be in some trouble in Michigan and Donald Trump may be facing a fifth set of charges. A promise was offered in exchange for an official act unlike in Georgia where the preferred method appears to have been limited to browbeating state officials.
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So, we have a Trump campaign official a month before Trump’s phone call to Brad Raffensperger admitting that the campaign knew that there were no issues with the voting machines in Georgia. This call was just three days before Rudy Giuliani said this to the Georgia Senate: #gapol
Alex Wagner just broadcast audio of a Trump campaign official acknowledging during a phone call with a Fox News producer in December 2020 that there was no evidence of physical issues with Dominion voting machines
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🚨🚨🚨 North Carolina Supreme Court: racially gerrymandered North Carolina General Assembly, as an unconstitutionally constituted legislature, did not have the power to propose amendments to the North Carolina Constitution.
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THE BIGGEST MISTAKE IN AMERICAN HISTORY WAS ENDING RECONSTRUCTION TOO EARLY
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🚨🚨🚨 Donald Trump telephone call pressuring Wayne County, Michigan canvassers to not to certify the 2020 vote was recorded. Ronna McDaniel was also on the call in which Trump encouraged the officials to disenfranchise Detroit area voters.
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Tort law is about to get real interesting for businesses that open in the next few days.
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Every place I went in Chicago this weekend required proof of vaccination. It was not a terribly difficult policy to enforce and made me want to spend more time and money there. There's no reason businesses everywhere shouldn't adopt similar policies.
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Really something to watch him tweet through it.
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🚨🚨 JUDGE MCBURNEY GRANTS DECLARATORY RELIEF: CERTIFICATION OF ELECTION RESULTS IS MANDATORY UNDER GEORGIA LAW #gapol
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Kamala Harris watching Jim Clyburn suggesting he’d support her if Biden stepped aside.
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I think he was busy getting Americans out of Russian jail cells.
Biden is MIA. Why is no one talking about it?.
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I think the real value added of Walz as Harris' pick is that he's the kind of guy who's able to go on sports radio and talk about college football and progressive policies in the same breath. It is a little different than the standard pattern of having a lawyer as a running mate.
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The idea that Congress must expressly pass a statute saying, "The President shall not coup," as advocated by Sauer is categorically insane.
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"In 1930, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives, in an effort to alleviate the effects of the. Anyone? Anyone?. the Great Depression, passed the. Anyone? Anyone? The tariff bill? The Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act? Which, anyone? Raised or lowered?. raised tariffs,.
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican president suggests Mexico could respond to any of Donald Trump's tariffs with tariffs of its own on US products.
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Donald Trump is going to lose to a Black woman and stand trial for his crimes against democracy. He’s taking it as well as you’d expect.
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I think the idea that members of Congress shouldn’t be allowed to comment on ongoing trials of national importance is off base. If Maxine Waters shouldn’t comment then why should MSNBC or CNN be allowed to have legal commentary? If this was such a problem, sequester the jury.
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People keep asking me for a prediction map, so here you go.
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The State of Missouri murdered a man tonight. And the United States Supreme Court sat idly by.
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Georgia is a great place to live just in case any of y’all were looking to move to a warm climate with competitive elections that’ll decide Mitch McConnell’s fate.
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👀👀🚨🚨. Grand Juror: “I tell my wife if every person in America knew every single word of information we knew, this country would not be divided as it is right now.”. Grand Juror: “A lot’s gonna come out sooner or later." “And it’s gonna be massive.".
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Trump’s dog whistle references to ending American democracy inspired me rework the caption for this classic.
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It’s all fun and games until some of these mid-level defendants realize the guys at the top don’t care about them and the folks on the bottom are making deals requiring them to admit they were part of a racketeering enterprise to overturn the election. #gapol.
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