Let me guess. Was the 5th circuit judge appointed by Trump, with a super conservative background, from the South, vetted by the Federalist society, and pretty young so he/she will last a long time on the bench?
As a modern concept it is:
https://www2.census.gov/geo/pdfs/maps-data/maps/reference/us...
As a historical concept it was:
For a better understanding it helps to familiarize yourself with the Mason-Dixon line [1]
[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mason%E2%80%93Dixon_line
Getting rid of the filibuster for judges and keeping it for everything else is exactly backwards.
Not sure if you're aware, but it was Harry Reid (D) in 2013 that first did away with the filibuster for judicial nominations [1].
> the Federalist Society judiciary is lurching us towards a constitutional crisis.
"We are committed to the principles that the state exists to preserve freedom, that the separation of governmental powers is central to our Constitution, and that it is emphatically the province and duty of the judiciary to say what the law is, not what it should be. " [2]
If that's lurching us towards a constitutional crisis, it can only mean that we've diverged far from the original intent.
[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_option#:~:text=The%2....
Don't judge an org by its mission statement lol.