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Don’t Get Used To ‘June 19th’ — The ‘Juneteenth Federal Holiday’ — Being On A Monday. Next Time Will Be In 2028.

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by Anura Guruge
on June 19, 2023

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UNLIKE Memorial Day & Labor Day, Juneteenth is NOT a ‘every year on a Monday‘ Federal Holiday.

Juneteenth — per the name is on June 19.
Period.

It is like Christmas being on December 25th.

Celebrating Juneteenth on another day is nonsensical BUT that has ALREADY started to happen, in some states, given the U.S. with 3-day Holiday weekends. So YES, a few States are OBSERVING Juneteenth on the 3rd Friday of the year. That is STUPID.

Next time June 19th falls on a Monday is 2028. Five years from now. A Leap Year, in between, jogged that forward.

So, don’t get used to Juneteenth on Mondays. Next year & for the following few it will NOT be on a Monday. OK? Got that?

You might be interested in this post from 2 years ago.

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I Am Puzzled How ‘Juneteenth Holiday’ Had NO GOP Senate Nay-Votes But 14 GOP NO Votes In The House.

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by Anura Guruge
on June 20, 2021

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Just not used to seeing anything of import getting through the Senate, in a long time, by Unanimous Consent. And this Holiday, which was bound to be controversial & divisive, did. What gives?

We know the Republicans weren’t thrilled with it because 14 voted against it (& 2 abstained) in the House.

But NO GOP Senators dissented. Very strange.

I had to go digging. Appears that quite a few GOP senators were not in favor. Appears that ‘Ron Johnson’ (R-Wisconsin) was even trying to BLOCK the vote from coming to the floor. (Check out the ‘Business Insider’ article shown above.) Then they all caved in. Wow.

The GOP senators “lost their appetite to debate this bill“? Very strange. Very unlike them.

Hhhmmm. I guess pigs to sometime fly.