Professor Darren Hutchinson
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Emory Law John Lewis Chair in Civ. Rts. & Soc. Just. Google Scholar: https://t.co/hTH4qwVIBr https://t.co/Mp870roSgK
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Joined May 2009
Racism in the Supreme Court.In the death penalty case McCleskey v. Kemp, Justice Scalia wrote a memorandum to the other justices saying that he did not need additional proof that racism motivated the jurors to impose the death penalty. He also said that knowing that racism
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Dear media (@nytimes, esp): Try to devote as much attention to Trump gassing people exercising 1st A rights as you gave to Clinton's emails. Actually, even 50% of the attention would be fine. Treat this as the emergency you mistakenly thought the emails were. Prove your value.
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Dear media: If you are going to cover Biden's competency, you have to do more than look for gaffes. He spoke to world leaders today and did an excellent job. Since you are concerned with his health, where is the assessment? You can't cherry pick what you want to cover -- unless.
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Another thing -- If Biden is fighting all of these wealthy donors and Dem leadership, maybe he is the candidate we need. A weaker person would have given up earlier. Having a Dem who actually fights--especially against the uber wealthy--is refreshing.
About these polls showing other folks doing better: Remember, this kind of polling was irrelevant when they showed Bernie doing better than Hillary. I was one of the strongest Clinton supporters -- but I am also honest. They are responding differently than in 2016.
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@Ender88792 @travisakers The caption didn't say born into slavery. Read it again. Black people were disproportionately agriculture workers long after slavery "ended".
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CLAIM: "GOP had 40 year plan to get rid of Roe; Dems had nothing".FALSE!!!!! #40yearplan #Roe #democrats .Here's how things ACTUALLY happened.Excuse all typos. I'm rushing. I hate seeing a field in which I have expertise butchered on social media. It's repulsive.
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Great job by Hillary Clinton. The biggest political tragedy of my lifetime was her loss--not only because it meant Trump won--but because she is so bright and talented. She also is a lot more generous than people portray her. After losing two close elections, she remains here.
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Just adopted him on Saturday. We are still deciding on a name. He is 5 months old. Vets say he's going to be a BIG BOY! I agree. Phew -- those paws and legs.
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WHY DON'T THEY DO SOMETHING? .A simple search on Congressional Record shows 61 bills and resolutions Dems introduced regarding abortion during 2021-2022. This DOESN'T INCLUDE committee proceedings or 100+ GOP bills Dems BLOCKED. YOU DO SOMETHING: READ AND PAY ATTENTION.
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@joerogan If I could have interviewed the a person who is potentially the future president, I would have canceled everything in my calendar. Unless you were burying a close friend or relative, you weren't committed to the interview.
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This is why I don't consider this valuable or honest reporting. He has given major speeches since the debate looking robust, but no comment from the "drop out" crowd. This is media bias, and we see it.
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Rich people shake up the Dem ticket, don't get the outcome they wanted, flee the scene.
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These kids called Angela Davis a neoliberal shill tonight. And we're not supposed to think they are either Russian bots or seriously cray.
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Even if "progessives" and media don't acknowledge it, Clinton has been vindicated thousand times over the last week alone. .
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Before you refuse to vote for "the lesser of two evils," you really need to have a full understanding of how bad the greater evil is.
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@KenDilanianNBC I don't want to live in a society where journalists pretend they want to ask hard questions but fail to do so. If you are going to sit by passively while the candidate lies and demonstrates a severely compromised mental state, then what are you bringing to the table? Absolutely.
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@marcelteloma @AutonomousAllie Perhaps you should learn the difference between swing states and safe states.
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@CalltoActivism I love how she sat there with a totally blank look on her face while he walked into an inescapable hole.
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#Madonna Twitter is such a vicious world. He's a kid. He wanted to do something expressive. Some of you are too young to know the lyrics to the Michael Jackson song. Listen to them. Whatever you think about his mom. he's a kid. Chill, Twitter.
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I am thrilled to join the faculty of Emory University School of Law as the inaugural John Lewis Chair in Civil Rights and Social Justice.
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"she’s too ambitious" --- a description I still have NEVER heard applied to a man, certainly not a white man. Biden allies wage shadow campaign to stop Kamala Harris from becoming vice president
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The battle continues. Please stop saying the Dems did nothing. It is ignorant. And ignorance is grotesque. You can use to research abortion decisions by fedl courts; for legislative battles; and Google for state matters.
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@icecube Unfortunately, our justice is NOT bipartisan. I have taught constitutional law for over years. If you truly believe Republican appointed judges are good for racial justice, you aren't paying attention.
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I have researched cases that courts decided during the period of enslavement. Here's an excerpt from one of my articles discussing the Florida Supreme Court ruling that Blacks - whether enslaved or not - needed to be "continually reminded of their inferior position." The title of
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Third, there was A LOT OF SUCCESS. All the litigation in the SCT affirmed Roe until last month. That's DECADES of litigation in the SCT - not to mention cases in lower federal courts and state courts -- all of which affirmed Roe. That would not have happened without Dems judges.
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@chinesegon No - you are grossly unprepared for this conversation. Between legacy admits, inside connections, and certain high schools for rich kids having privilege in the admissions process, only few seats remain for "affirmative action.".
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@billybruins37 @WhiteHouse I have 2 mortgages. I had 6-figure ed. debt. I support this policy. No one qualifies for every government benefit. I can't get farm aid (which covers debts) or tax breaks for oil producers. Having heavily indebted young people isn't good policy Being jealous or angry is immature.
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In states, Dems laid groundwork for protecting choice. Indeed, in states with Dem-controlled legislatures, Dobbs is a nonissue! So stop pretending they did nothing. Even some purple states haven't been able to undo the Roe based laws. Look at this thread:
DEM STATES.Do something: state edition. We could have this nationwide with large Dem majority in Congress. 1. NY - already had among the most liberal abortion law in nation; passed 6 more bills since leaked opinion. This is what Dem majority can do.
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@JPizzle257 @notcapnamerica Um, no. He's a professional and business owner. He needs to exercise leadership. Leaders do not make a decision about an alleged conflict without hearing all sides. It's offensive and immature. So I do not feel sorry for him whatsoever.
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Today is my birthday. I didn't see my shadow, so my age remains the same.
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Dems successfully blocked numerous bills congressional Republicans introduced to limit abortions. Clinton vetoed the scary-sounding "Partial-birth abortion act" --TWICE, but when Bush won office it was enacted.
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DEM STATES.Do something: state edition. We could have this nationwide with large Dem majority in Congress. 1. NY - already had among the most liberal abortion law in nation; passed 6 more bills since leaked opinion. This is what Dem majority can do.
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Isn't it interesting that, accdg to many progressives, Dobbs is due to a 40-yr GOP plan, but none of the dozens of cases the SCT issued that affirmed Roe had anything to do with Dems (because Dems didn't have a plan)? .If the argument is internally inconsistent, DROP IT.
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@justinbaragona I don't know why that "context" matters. I did not know he was autistic when I saw his emotional response to his father. I thought it was wonderful. This has nothing to do with neurodivergence, in my opinion. It's about human dignity vs bigotry and toxicity.
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Today, some self-proclaimed leftists call these people "The Establishment. ".
55 years ago today, we were beaten, tear gassed, and trampled by horses. I thought I saw death. I thought I was going to die. I don't know how I made it back, but I know we cannot rest. We cannot become weary. We must keep pushing and pulling and find a way to get in the way.
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@travisakers @LaineyTavor People don't understand the high percentage of African Americans whose grandparents/great-grandparents lived in acute poverty.
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@DeSantisWarRoom Not celebrating an enslaver is "political correctness"? Nope. It's being an informed and respectful citizen. You are such a dangerous person, running exclusively on bigotry. No independent thought of your own. Just mimicking Trump. Disgusting.
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Repro rights are not owned by the DNC. They are ours. We need to mobilize and eliminate this terrible setback. We will NOT accomplish this with multiple simplistic threads grossly misrepresenting history. If you have only learned history from Twitter accounts, you're miseducated.
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Dems have consistently made choice an issue in its platform. Dems have fought to make contraception available and to support the availability of "abortion mediations." Republicans have opposed ALL of these things.
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In ONE case, the SCT held Roe was no longer good law. In DOZENS of cases, the SCT, lower federal courts, and state courts held that women had a right to terminate a pregnancy. Those victories were due to progressive/liberal social movements and their Democratic supporters.
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Second, the Dems acted much like the GOP -- using Congress, states, local government, and courts to protect choice. And political parties don't act alone. They act with social movement actors and voters--in the US and globally. Abortion advocates and pro-choice judges are Dems.
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Democrats, like Republicans, had a judicial strategy and appointed pro-choice judges. Notably ALL of the dissenting justices in Dobbs were appointed by Dem presidents. ALL of the majority justices were appointed by Repub presidents.
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First of all, there was no formal 40 year plan that the GOP executed at will. This is absolute nonsense, and people need to retire that argument now. This is not how law operates. There are so many variables that come into play.
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People want to reduce the battle over reproduction to this: Roe + Republican 40-year plan = Dobbs. I refuse to allow this nuttery to prevail without a fight. There are so many missing variables. So many Republican losses and Dem victories missing. It is insulting to omit them!.
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@DCstedt4 @fasc1nate People do awful things too -- including electing terrible people to office.
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@KSeaboldt @nytdavidbrooks Sadly, he's a journalist at one of the world's most influential and respected newspapers.
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@PrestonMitchum @ShuneShines Preston! I was criticizing the post and then I found out I can just leave it alone. Clean your house first, people.
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@espirituencasa @DeSantisWarRoom Were your relatives enslaved? Don't say get over it. You served in the military, not slavery, so maybe YOU should get over it.
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@loganclarkhall The biggest liars often have "Christian" in the profiles. So predictable, so disgusting.
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@NikkiHaley So, this is why South Carolina received ZERO money from the federal government when you were governor? .🙄🙄🙄🙄.Oh, snap! Google tells everything. When you were governor, the state had the HIGHEST rate of federal funding of ALL states!
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BREAKING: Vivek Ramaswamy says he couldn’t believe how many GOP primary voters were opposed to him merely because of his name, ethnicity, skin color, and religion.
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@nakita1971 @HistoryToLearn @sf_leilani And this is a race-gender moment. Both are sources of extreme injustice.
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@SharikaSoal84 Sharika, you should probably count the number of fingers on the women in this post. Also, Sharika is probably Thomas Van Walden Smythe.
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@djrothkopf It is much easier to say the Dems are awful than to admit that you live in a nation with deeply disturbing levels of racism, sexism, xenophobia, and ignorance. Plus a wholly undemocratic presidential election process.
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The insulting part of this logic is the inherent assumption that political parties -- actually just a handful of politicians in Congress -- create social change. That's utterly incorrect. SOCIAL MOVEMENTS work with politicians and other important resources to achieve their goals.
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@RossKneeDeep VPs cannot end wars. They cannot start wars. They cannot wage wars. Presidents cannot declare wars. There's a lot of civics illiteracy in our society.
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@jam_on_third That's ridiculous. If you have cognitive difficulties, you can't give an excellent speech--even by reading it. The words would look confusing. You would lose you thoughts. You wouldn't know when to make the proper voice inflections you make in public speaking. This is the.
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@ZachRippett @oufenix Some people handle death very differently. Antagonizing a dying person is very dramatic and hurtful. Underneath all of the grandiosity, however, is probably a very broken individual. I am not saying you should "forget" what he did or that you owe him sympathy. Not. At. All.
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Dear Friends:.I recently protected my tweets. I did so in order to avoid screening a bunch of N-word tweets from users angered by my comments about Scalia's racism. I have criticized Supreme Court doctrines and justices with evidence-based analysis for decades. 1/2.
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@he1kumwya I do not know ANY white person (or any person for that matter) who understands this.
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Interesting. On the last Saturday to register to vote, the drivers license/state ID offices are all closed. They are regularly closed on Sunday and Monday. Last day to register is Tuesday. Not a coincidence. @GeorgiaDDS.
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Why doesn't he "leave the country," since it's so awful? That's what many conservatives ask progressives.
“The last best hope of earth”. — Abraham Lincoln. “The shining city upon a hill”. — Ronald Reagan. “A garbage can for the world”. — Donald Trump
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I was a 12 years old when Nightline started airing. I used to stay up every night to watch Ted Koppel. He was one of the smartest voices on tv.
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This thread is why many of us say PLEASE vote for Dems. Those who pay attention know what Dems can do when they control legislatures. You are blaming congressional inaction on Dems, rather than the highly divided nature of Congress. Creating a strong Dem Congress is best strategy.
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@wakeupwithlinda @MoshebenYehudah Here are more details:.1. Antiblack racism in Latino communities has been well documented. See publications by Tanya Kateri Hernandez. 2. Many Latino orgs collaborate with Black orgs to achieve racial justice, e.g., Maldef, PRLDF, and, yes, LULAC. Polling shows that Latinos are.
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To the folks who "hated Trump but couldn't bring themselves to vote for Clinton, " I can't bring myself to think of you as anything but an idiot. Honest to the core.
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ALSO - Dems have tried to codify Roe in all but 2 congressional sessions since 2013 (I didn't look beyond that)
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Ok - I am the enemy of fascism. I accept that.
JD Vance at the National Conservatism Conference:. "The professors are the enemy.".
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Younger people, I encourage you to research C. Everett Koop. He was the Surgeon General during the Regan's two terms and GHWB. He was an arch conservative--definitely antiabortion. When right wingers in the Reagan administration asked him to write a report concluding that.
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I can't believe people think Twitch couldn't have died from suicide because he had a loving family. Others are calling him selfish. The level of misunderstanding regarding suicide and depression is deeply troubling. Imagine saying a cancer patient is selfish for dying.
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@PolitiFact I love Politifact, but he also appointed the justices who made all of this possible. Actions speak much louder in this setting.
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This is tragic and disturbing. The article describes people being upset about the failure to pass a new Voting Rights Act or police reform -- when the Republicans voted against everything. The PPP was introduced in Congress by DEMOCRATS, and it would have done even more if
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@ClayTravis Actually, a JUDGE has sentenced her pursuant to legislation enacted by Congress. How often have you expressed sympathy towards prisoners? Have you ever backed compassionate release? Do you even know what that is? Do you think the US is too lenient with criminals? Be consistent.
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@DiaryOfKeysus Mo'Nique said she didn't mind her talking to her brother. Having her mother on the show without telling her really made her upset.
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@Acyn So, he says this to the International Association of Fire Fighters. and they weren't having it.
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I believe the same folks who want something very bold/radical from Dems are the same ones believe that white voters would suddenly vote Dem if they had radical economic policy. History tells us the reverse happened. The Great Society and CRA of 1964 sent scores of whites to GOP.
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"I can't vote for Clinton because I am not sure she's good on climate change. I am voting for the Green Party instead." .Supreme Court just slashes ability of EPA to regulate carbon emissions. DO SOMETHING!.
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@JoyceWhiteVance Oh the frivolity. The Court should sanction his lawyers for vexatious litigation tactics.
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4. California - already had (probably) strongest abortion protection in nation. Passed bill that immunizes people who assist out-of-state abortion seekers. ALSO - DEM legislature introduced CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT protecting abortion rights.
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Stop the #Asians nonsense now! Place the blame on the Court and white racial resentment. Also, the plaintiffs in those cases do not speak for all Asian Americans. Do not replicate bigotry. This is too easy. Let it go, immediately!.
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@KenDilanianNBC Here's a problem: Many folks in the media take legitimate criticism as partisan activism. Unlike Trump, however, Dems have not dismissed the entire media as "fake news." He does not respect you folks. He wants to lower the standard for libel -- and some states are trying to do so.
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@NidiaCavazosTV If the polls are right, he's hurting Trump more. But why should he get a cabinet position - when he has been so evil towards Dems AND he looked for one with Trump first???? He's untethered from reality.
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@GinaDaly02 @ANDREW1ALBERTT No - he was trying to film this for the Internet. If he really wanted to retreat, he would have pulled the leash and directed the dog away.
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Jimmy Carter .My parents were angry when he lost to Reagan. As an 8-y-o, I heard people praising Reagan. Everyone seemed to love him. I got different messages at home and asked why. They told me. Now, I read exit polls, and I know who elected Reagan. Their kids elected Trump.
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@HeidiBriones @marrymeeither @realDonaldTrump Queer people are socialists? Now I see clearly why you are for Trump. Anything you don't like is socialist. Your responses are unthoughtful, and you show a complete lack of intelligence. Good grief.
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2. New Jersey - codified abortion rights in January. Dem majorities accomplish things.
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@ChuckGrassley Oh, I almost forgot. You said that Medicare providing end-of-life counseling under the Affordable Care Act meant Obama was trying to "pull the plug on Grandma." You have no credibility at all.
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