And Tasmanians, and Native Americans, and Indians, and Kenyans, and Irish…

Not if Trump gets his way

IIRC, the Democrats used the filibuster more during Trump’s first term than the Republicans did during Obama’s second term. It is a highly flawed tool, but it does have its uses. Yeah, we are going to be able to pass more things we want, but so will the opposition.

I think we should get rid of the filibuster because it has allowed the Executive to take more power. That doesn’t mean it will be entirely positive. It might even be a net negative. Remember that we got rid of the filibuster for supreme court appointments and that is what allowed the Republicans to take a supermajority there.

The last time the Dems had a filibuster proof trifecta, it was for about 2 months and they passed Obamacare. The Repubs spent the next decade trying to break it. The Democrats have a lot of issues, but they are NOT the major problem here.

You mean the continuing resolution that would have caused a government shut down which Trump would have used to take more power and a meaningless symbolic vote?

Yes, but that would have affected virtually nothing Trump has done since gaining office again.

Can’t filibuster executive orders.

And yet they are still regularly wrong. Because statistics are probability, not certainty.

I think he assumes that as long as nobody in the police or military stops him, he has the authority to do whatever he wants.

It’s new that they aren’t even pretending to play by the same rules

At least for the rich and powerful

The law is clear. It doesn’t matter if it’s politically convenient or likely to succeed. If the President breaks the law, which Trump clearly has, they must be impeached.

Just this past weekend my mom said she was struggling to decide whether or not to get the shingles vaccine. She was afraid she would get chickenpox from it. Her doctor told her that’s impossible and I told her the doctor was right. In the end she said she is getting it first thing this week.

When the 5th circuit is making sense, you know you’re really in a fucked up situation

Palestinians descended from the Bronze Age inhabitants of the Levant. Israelites later emerged from the Canaanite people (who are also strongly genetically tied to Palestinians) a thousand years later.

Probably radiocarbon dating?

This isn’t the only place this has happened. More info here.

https://youtu.be/Bwabh4zbmZ4

Odds are that the MAGA sycophants in the White House and Congress are all expected to get this and that all their data goes straight to China.

The decision was 8-2. There are 13 judges, so 3 abstained. 5 were nominated by Trump. 2+3=5. Hard to believe that is a coincidence.