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Cake day: July 18th, 2023

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  • Just put an edit on my original post… I saw a post on bluesky showing him as a yea, but I can’t find the tally on senate or cspan sites yet, so I can’t confirm. To be honest, it doesn’t matter what his vote is, because he is either part of this deal or so ineffective as leader that he couldn’t whip the votes. And since one if his favorite gags is splitting the bad from the holdout so that the bad can pass while the holdout doesn’t, my money is on Schumer being behind it all. Notice the only i e’s who voted for it are retiring or not electing next year.








  • I agree with that being her rationale, although I’m not sure if I agree that it was the correct move. Kind of a damned if you do/damned if you don’t situation, but since 4(ish) states were able to fire off the paperwork in time so that they have now disbursed that money, then maybe having the relief come from the other justices would’ve delayed its implementation enough that other states could’ve gotten in front of it as well. Would’ve at least gotten one more set of payments out before the conservatives shut it down for good.

    Red states obviously wouldn’t have, but they’ll probably refuse to release the money even if the SC somehow rules correctly. All the blue governors should have been on top of that like the 4 who were, but it’s moot now.

    I have no reason to doubt Ketanji Brown Jackson felt she was doing what she felt was right though, so we’ll just have to see how everything plays out.