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Ideal Elvis career Filmography (* means proposed but not done) 1955 Talent Scouts (tv)* - Himself 1956 Bus Stop* - Beauregard "Bo" Decker Love Me Tender - Clint Reno The Girl Can’t Help It* - Himself The Rainmaker* - Jim Curry 1957 Jailhouse Rock - Vince Everett Loving You - Jimmy...

I’d would also use the ones from my TL The American Civil War: The Rule of the Radical Republicans: 1) The 13th Amendment is the one proposed by Charles Sumner: All persons are equal before the law, so that no person can hold another as a slave; and the Congress shall have power to make all...

Yeah, you have to attack it from all angles. Kill the Byrd machine, get the Court to fully side with the NAACP, and get a fully pro-Civil Rights President (with the capacity to move Congress, especially the Senate) to act on it. That or butterfly the 1883 Civil Rights Cases and keep the 1875...

I’d say when it comes to school desegregation, you have to start with a charted path and follow it through, even if it takes lying, cheating, and stealing to get there. The Supreme Court should’ve given the immediate relief as requested by the NAACP (and that is precedent in all other cases)...

From the wiki article on Brown v. Board II (III is even worse iIrc) In a 9-0 decision, the Supreme Court ordered the states to start trying to obey the Brown decision and de-segregate their schools. It ordered the states to start making plans about how they were going to integrate their...

I get your point, but Fortas’ conflict of interest is nowhere near that of Thomas’. Fortas could simply recuse himself if any cases from that businessman came up, Thomas hasn’t, even when it comes to cases involving Jan 6/Fraudulent Elector scheme (which his wife was an active participant in)...

What if the Union had been able to capture Savannah, Vicksburg, and Charleston in 1862? (And Mobile and Shreveport soon after.) (With or without Lee as the head of the Union, though works best with him at the head to not speed up the war too much since he’d amor likely camp in Richmond once...

The front of the army won’t stay, but if they’re busting through a bridgehead to get to another place, then it makes sense that their rear/supply train will stay in the city, and perhaps set up a command center since it’ll allow the front of the army to advance faster. Plus, that just means...

A bit hard to use anti-tank weapons if every building you’re housed in and all your supplies are being burnt to ashes around you… and with you in them. It’s one thing to fail to take a city. It’s another to take it, set up camp in it, and then have it burnt to the ground while you’re in it.

On this and the Germany would be nuked… yes, but only if they manage to hold Stalingrad. Realistically, had they captured the city, it would just provide for an even bigger encirclement once they’re fully settled in. Much as the Russians burnt down Moscow to deny Napoleon the city, so too will...

Best Case Scenario (for the country) Trump Appointments (Basically, Trump decides to be a serious politician, and is even considerate to Democrats by appointing has-beens like Harold Ford Jr., or soon to be has-beens like Heidi Heitkamp so that way any attempt against his Presidency by...

Yep! Carter considered nominating him in 1977, but he had to get surgery to treat an aneurysm, and so, due to health concerns, Carter went with another pick. Since after 1986, the mandatory retirement for federal employees is rescinded, and the FBI Director serves 10 year terms, following...

Obama with a more Democratic administration. Janet Louise Yellen Born: 13 August 1946 (Brooklyn, New York City, New York) Party: Democratic Chair of the Federal Reserve (6 October 2009-6 October 2021) Lisa Oudens Monaco Born: 25 February 1968 (Boston, Massachusetts) Party: Democratic...

This serves as an excellent addition to my point, particularly how the liberal/conservative divide at this point would be determined by racial polarization. I think the best case scenario for the Upper South Confederacy would be a TL where Kentucky/Tennessee entered the Union as free states, and...

Seems you answered your own prompt, so to throw a curveball. “It seems the Emperor’s policy to conquer Europe through marriage has worked… perhaps too well. After nine months to the day of his engagement and marriage to Désirée Clary, six healthy boys were brought into this world, all carrying...