I long ago stopped paying much attention to proposed bills. I pay attention to something that is about to be signed, or is signed, by the executive. One thing that was useful I learned from political science is that virtually all of the "proposed bills" have zero chance of passing. It's posturing for the rubes back in the home district so they can say; "I sponsored a bill that would do XYZ awesome thing" when either the House or Senate leadership would never take up such an item, and the thing never ever makes it out of committee. The other thing is, I really pay attention to things barnacled onto "must pass" spending bills like the annual defense appropriations act and so on.
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Also don't pay attention to court decisions until one side is no longer able to or has said they aren't going to appeal the decision. So much news about court decisions is presented as the final result and the new precedent, which ends up being false when it gets overturned on appeal. Also when someone gets sentenced to X years in prison they usually don't serve that amount of time, especially if they're favored by those in power (e.g., they have friends in high places or are part of an "oppressed group").
Amen to that. Whole books have been written about how the Supreme Court says X or Y and nothing happens...unless the president is willing to enforce it.
Courts are a hollow hope.
I can't stand it when some YouTuber (especially a GunTuber) go on about "this changes everything" and yea, it does for the 2nd circuit of some obscure corner of Texas where now some lower trial court says some niche thing and it's not going to be appealed.