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[Gromnir]

Senate parliamentarian deals blow to Republicans over Medicaid provisions in Trump's megabill

The ruling is a major setback for Republican leadership, who are under pressure to expeditiously move it to the Senate floor to meet the July deadline. This ruling will require potentially major reworks of the bill with relatively little time to accomplish them. And no matter how they change it, leaders are likely to frustrate some faction of the Republican conference, which could imperil the bill's passage.

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not accurate, but it might be true. by a majority vote, the senate could overrule the parliamentarian, but that almost never happens. 'course a whole lotta almost never happens has been happening under trump, yes?

also, the scotus procedural ruling on deportations to third country is disappointing and has the Court fully embracing its ordinary three wise monkey attitude.

"Instead, at least five of the same justices who, as recently as April, were especially adamant that alleged alien enemies have a right to notice and an opportunity to be heard before they can be removed under the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 were willing to sign off on a ruling that effectively allows for countless other migrants to be removed to third countries where they have credible arguments that they’ll be mistreated—for no other reason than because they’ve already been held to be removable to some other country. Due process apparently matters to these justices on the initial removability question, but not beyond that."

the Court, back in april, recognized that the government were intentional misleading in their efforts to rush plaintiffs outta jurisdictions just ahead of judge rulings being delivered in addition to the fed's embrace of deceitful shell games such as ceding authority of deportees to the department of defense while claiming that judge orders specified only homeland security and ice... not to mention sh!te like

the doj is serious arguing that abrego garcia should not be released from criminal custody 'cause then he would be deported, resulting in the State losing the opportunity to criminal prosecute a bad guy. 

oh, and emil bove

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1 hour ago, BruceVC said:

Meaning?

Do you mean an EU army because the EU is not a federal system, its a union of different countries 

 

that is why eu couldn't protect itself

it have to change

[Gromnir]

the ruling in the birthright citizenship case, which did not address in anyway what constitutes US citizenship, will have almost no impact on the birthright citizenship case, which am gonna guess has already been refiled to get around the arcane procedural issue scotus identified. 

however, for a large number o' other trump administration actions, this is a game changer.

am pressed for time, so can't give it the time it deserves, but the point is that today's 6-3 birthright citizenship decision should have no meaningful practical effect on the birthright citizenship issue.

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ps: (quick addition) J Amy Coney Barrett messed this up whether you agree with the outcome or not. the ruling offers little in the way o' practical guidance and am predicting a multitude o' new litigation which will need to lurch back to scotus before we get answers to the numerous new questions this decision spawned. 

Edited Friday at 07:37 PM by Gromnir

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this is not a temporary end of birth right citizenship

with a conservative supreme court

blue state will never be able to protect it for long

[rjshae]

Defense Department will stop providing crucial satellite weather data

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For more than 40 years, the Defense Department has operated satellites that collect information about conditions in the atmosphere and ocean. A group within the Navy, called the Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center, processes the raw data from the satellites, and turns it over to scientists and weather forecasters who use it for a wide range of purposes including real-time hurricane forecasting and measuring sea ice in polar regions.

This week, the Department of Defense announced that it would no longer provide that data, according to a notice published by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, NOAA.

 

So, yeah, that's an actual thing now. I have no idea why they would do that. The Defense Department doesn't want to defend the country from Hurricanes? I suppose it could be related to some sort of climate change issue.