The Supreme Court doesn’t give a rat's patootie about you and me..

Today, Republicans in the Senate sent a bill approving the construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline to President Obama’s desk. President Obama has repeatedly said that he will veto that bill, and we can expect that veto later today or tomorrow.

After all, despite claims from Republicans and Big Oil, the pipeline wouldn’t create American jobs, wouldn’t lower fuel prices, and wouldn’t make the United States more energy secure.

Instead, as renowned climate scientist James Hansen famously pointed out in a New York Times op-ed, the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline would be, “game over for the climate.”

Of course, even if President Obama does veto the Keystone legislation, that doesn’t mean the fight is over.

The State Department still has to rule on the pipeline, and theoretically, the pipeline battle could find its way to the Supreme Court.

And, if it does end up in the Supreme Court, we almost certainly know how the conservative justices of the court will rule.

Read more here.

-Thom

Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 7pm and 10pm... BUSTED...Koch Brothers caught funding climate denier (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT or Free Speech TV, and catch past shows on Youtube)

Be sure to check out our new videos: CARBON, LAST HOURS & GREEN WORLD RISING - narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio

Big Picture Rumble:
- Hughey Newsome, Project 21 / Move-On-Up
- Nate Sweet, Progressive Commentator
- Jennifer Kerns, Washington Times / The Blaze

Screwed: BUSTED...Koch Brothers caught funding climate denier
- Kert Davies, Climate Investigations Center

Green report: Will Arctic oil exploration be restricted?
- John Deans, Greenpeace USA

Best of the Rest: Why the president won't say 'Islamic extremists'
- Rusty Humphries, The Washington Times

Tuesday's Daily Stack

Article: "O'Reilly vindicated..." by Josh Feldman (Drudge Report title).

Article: "CBSNEWS video backs up account..." by Josh Feldman (Drudge Report title).

Article: "Mother Jones reporter under fire..." (Drudge Report title)

Article: "NYT Reporter: O'Reilly Made Threat..." by Dylan Byers (Drudge Report title).

Article: "In Heat: UN climate chief steps down over sex harassment charges..." by AP (Drudge Report title).

Article: "Global warming 'is my religion'..." by Marc Morano (Drudge Report title).

Article: "Research Shows White Privilege is Real" by Ian Ayres.

Article: "Bill O'Reilly Is STILL Denying White Privilege Exists".

Article: "Straight Talk for White Men" by Nicholas Kristof.

Issue: "Scientific American Magazine March 2015" (Innovations in... microbiome).

Article: "Open letter to Saudi King Salman bin Abdul-Aziz" by Ani Zonneveld.

Article: "CAIR Praises DHS Report on Domestic ‘Right Wing’ Extremists" by Patrick Goodenough.

Article: "Mother Jones editors blast back at Bill O’Reilly’s ‘kill zone’ comment" by Erik Wemple.

The good: " John Legend and Common get political at Oscars" by Nick Gass.

The bad: "Scott Lively Warns That SCOTUS Could Unleash The Antichrist By September 2015" by Kyle Mantyla.

The very, very ugly: "Scott Walker Says He Doesn't Know If Obama Is Christian" by Daniel Strauss.

Event: Minneapolis, February 27th, 2015 "AM950's 11th Annual Blue State Ball".

Article: "27th Amendment. "No law, varying the compensation for the services of the Senators and Representatives, shall take effect, until an election of representatives shall have intervened."

Site: Progressive Democrats of America

Documentary: The Real Eve.

Book: "Columbus and Other Cannibals: The Wetiko Disease of Exploitation, Imperialism, and Terrorism" by Jack D. Forbes.

Article: "Secrecy around police surveillance equipment proves a case’s undoing" by Ellen Nakashima.

Article: "Are your calls being intercepted? 17 fake cell towers discovered in one month" by Darlene Storm.

Article: "Chicago mayoral election, 2015" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Rauner unveils ‘budget Illinois can afford’ — major cuts to Medicaid, special needs, local government" by Natasha Korecki, Jon Seidel.

Article: "Dan Rather in 1982 CBS Report: TV Crew Members ‘Knocked to the Ground’ in Riots Where O’Reilly Was" by Matt Wilstein.

Article: "The Founders Confront Judge Moore" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Treaty of Tripoli" by Wikipedia.

Book: "Conservatives Without Conscience" by John W. Dean.

Book: "None Dare Call It Treason" by John A. Stormer.

Article: "About 20 manatees rescued from Florida storm drain" by Barbara Liston.

Talk Radio News Segment:
- Bob Ney

Article: "Sen. Dems Demand Clean DHS Funding Bill" by William McDonald.

Article: "Senate vote to pass DHS funding defeated as immigration dispute escalates" by Dan Roberts.

Article: "Leaked cables show Netanyahu’s Iran bomb claim contradicted by Mossad" by Seumas Milne, Ewen MacAskill and Clayton Swisher.

Article: "The Great SIM Heist: How Spies Stole the Keys to the Encryption Castle" by Jeremy Scahill and Josh Begley.

Site: "Goats for the old Goat".

Site: Governor Free Don Siegelman.

Book: "Sideswiped: Lessons Learned Courtesy of the Hit Men of Capitol Hill" by Robert Ney.

Article: "TRNS News Notes- 2/24" by Victoria Jones.

Article: "TRNS News Notes- 2/23" by Victoria Jones.

Hour Three: The fight against judicial activism
- Chief Justice Roy Moore, Alabama Supreme Court.

Article: "Judge Roy Moore Rides Again" by Christopher Brauchli.

Article: "Judge Challenging Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore On Gay Marriage: 'We're On The Right Side Of History'" by Ariel Edwards-Levy.

Article: "Full Transcript Of BuzzFeed News’ Interview With President Barack Obama".

Article: "Notes on the State of Virginia" by Thomas Jefferson.

Letter: "Letter to Thomas Cooper" by Thomas Jefferson, February 10, 1814.

Article: "Heptarchy" by Wikipedia.

Letter: "Jefferson's Letter to the Danbury Baptists", Jan. 1. 1802.

Article: "Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution 3:§§ 1868-9".

Article: "Veto Act on Incorporating the Alexandria Protestant Episcopal Church (February 21, 1811)" by James Madison.

Article: "Supremacy Clause" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Constitution of the United States", article 3 section 2. "... The judicial Power shall extend..."

Quote: "John Marshall has made his decision: now let him enforce it!" -- Andrew Jackson.

Law: "Rule 65. Injunctions and Restraining Orders".

Book: The Supremacists: The Tyranny of Judges and How to Stop It by Phyllis Schlafly.

Case: "Marbury v. Madison", 1803 (judicial review).

Case: "Roe v. Wade", 1973.

Case: "Plessy v. Ferguson", 1896 (separate but equal).

Case: "Dred Scott v. Sandford", 1857.

Case: "Brown v. Board Of Education", 1954 (Segregation in public schools) (overturned Plessy v. Ferguson).

Article: "Constitution of the United States" Article 6 section 2. "This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding."

Case: "Lockhart v. Fretwell", 1993.

Case: "Steffel v. Thompson" (1974).

Law: "Alabama Constitution".

Article: "Rooker–Feldman doctrine" by Wikipedia.

Article: "West Virginia train derailment sends oil tanker into river" by CBSNews.

Article: "Two W. Virginia towns evacuated after derailed train cars hauling crude oil catch fire" by Reuters.

Article: "Data: Oil Trains Spill More Often, But Pipelines Spill Bigger" by Emily Atkin.

Article: "Nestlé to Dump Artificial Colors and Flavors in U.S. Candy, Something It Did in Europe Years Ago" by Anastasia Pantsios.

Article: "Hottest 12 Months On Record Globally Thanks To Warm January, Reports NASA" by Joe Romm.

Article: "USDA Approves ‘Untested, Inherently Risky’ GMO Apple" by Katherine Paul.

Article: "Incredible Study Demonstrates the Strong Likelihood That Dinosaurs Were Tripping out on LSD" by Phillip Smith.

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Jeremy Holden of Media Matters talks about Bill O’Reilly and his Falklands War lies. Martha Kempner of RH Reality Check talks about the ‘Female Viagra’ and why the FDA is blocking the drug. Herb Hoby, co-editor of The Diary of Malcolm X, talks Malcolm X legacy 50 years after his assassination.

Thom debunks pot as a psychotic drug with Paul Armentano from NORML in Everything You Know is Wrong. Plus, Thom’s his Daily Take, The Good, The Bad, and the Very Very Ugly, Geeky Science.

Phony Cell Phone Towers Spying on Us?

The Founding Fathers on Christianity...

Judge Roy Moore on Same-Sex Marriage & Judicial Activism...

The Ukraine Proxy & the New Cold War (w/ Prof. Stephen Cohen)

Right-Wing Terrorism has come to America!

The Science of White Privilege...

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