An under-appreciated holiday here in the US, it celebrates the birth of our way of government. Most don't remember this holiday exists (or seem to), and I myself could never remember the date until I looked at the calendar each year. I hope those of you that are in the US try and help people remember to appreciate this day.

In order to present some context, unlike the US, who have had the same basic paper since their foundation, or the UK, who have an unwritten constitution of common agreement, Chile's constitutional history is... complicated. Long story short, the current Constitution was promulgated in 1980, under Pinochet's dictatorship.

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What day is the Venezuelan Independence Day can be a bit confusing if you don't know our history, without proper knowledge, you may get confused regarding the events of April 19th of 1810 and July 5th of 1811.

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I have always been mine opinion that its should require ⅔rds + 1 Vote to confirm a judge. Now, we have a crazy system of a simple majority, with no filibuster, for confirming judges guaranteeing that judges will be incompetent partisan hacks. We also have the McConnell-Rule:

The Senate will only take up nominations of judicial candidates of the majority party.

Let us look at the results:

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