Upheaval continues to take from in both protests and weather.
Houston immigrants are in near panic and, now, the Oroville Dam in California is in
trouble and 188k people are evacuating.
Trump’s executive actions have a long history of basis, including Congress having given
the president indefinite power concerning national security, Presidents Lincoln and
Jackson having arrested dissident judges—more extreme than anything Trump has done so far.
Trump is complying with the rulings of the courts, even though he presses on.
The Senate has the “Constitutional Option”, often called the “Nuclear Option”, where
the president of the Senate, the Vice President, can call the Senate to vote without the Senate’s
consent where “matters of the Constitution” are concerned.
This means that the standing majority of Senators will be able to approve judges.
Problems of Senate rules have come up, seemingly that the Senate has made rules that tie its
own hands.
That itself is a Constitutional question: Can the Senate write its own rules making
itself unable to function?
In the end, all objection and opposition to Trump will make the Republican case stronger,
including the protests from dissident constituents in Republican Congressional districts.
Even if Trump did not have the majority support of the country, the Republicans in the House
and Senate do.
It seems clear that the minority is loud and the silent majority is busy at work, having
finished their project in November.
Still, dissidents have the evidence they need to encourage themselves to carry on.
Difficult times remain ahead.