Joe Manchin: I will not vote to eliminate or weaken the filibuster

[Celerity]

24. The part that is enraging me most is that they apparently are not even open to modifications of

any sort of actually impactful nature. I so hope they come around on that or we all are well fucked.

Another can of worms will be SCOTUS. IF Breyer (and he damn well better or we may lose any shot at replacing him if we lose the Senate in 2022, which a lack of passing these voter rights bills via Manchin and Sinema blockage greatly increases the likelihood of) does retire between now and summer 2022, we are owed an RBG-style progressive Justice. Watch Manchin and Sinema say NOPE, only a slightly conservative centrist type need apply. We all know that Manchin also faces up as having a problematic history of issues with women of colour nominees, and Biden has already stated the next SCOTUS nominee he will pick is a black female. Potential Biden nominees include Leondra Kruger (my favourite pick), who serves on the California Supreme Court, and Ketanji Brown Jackson, a federal district court judge in Washington who served as a law clerk to Breyer. Both are (thank fuck) pretty far left. What are Manchin and Sinema going to say about either one? The last thing we need is another goddamn partially RW voting Justice, which would take the court to 7 to 2 in favour of the RW on many potential cases. If Sotomayor's chronic (and worsening) lifelong Type-1 diabetes forces her out (and we have lost control of either the Senate or the POTUS or both), we may be down to only Kagan as the one and only reliable lefty vote.