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The Supreme Court Broke Politics - How Do We Now Reform the Supreme Court?
 We complain about the state of American politics; about a mentally ill billionaire in the White House and a Republican Party crawling with hustlers and conmen, and a few in the Democratic Party as well. The complaints are legitimate, but most people don't realize why the situation is as bad as it is. That tracks back, virtually 100%, to several supreme court decisions starting in 1976 that deregulated money in politics, claiming that political spending was simply First Amendment-protected "free speech." The Supreme Court first ruled that in 1976, setting up the flood of money that poured into Washington DC and brought us Ronald Reagan in 1980. They doubled down with Citizens United in 2010, paving the way for foreign oligarchs to help elect Donald Trump and a completely corrupted Republican-controlled Senate. -Thom |
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Thursday's Daily Stack 
Hour One: The Supreme Court Broke Politics - How Do We Now Reform the Supreme Court???
Article: " Federalist 78: The Judiciary Department" by Alexander Hamilton. " the judiciary is beyond comparison the weakest of the three departments of power1; that it can never attack with success either of the other two." Article: " Federalist 78: The Judiciary Department" by Alexander Hamilton. " The celebrated Montesquieu, speaking of them, says: "Of the three powers above mentioned, the judiciary is next to nothing.'" Letter: " Thomas Jefferson to Spencer Roane", 6 Sept. 1819 " The constitution, on this hypothesis, is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary, which they may twist, and shape into any form they please." Article: " Constitution of the United States", article 3 section 2. "... In all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, and those in which a State shall be Party, the supreme Court shall have original Jurisdiction. In all the other Cases before mentioned, the supreme Court shall have appellate Jurisdiction, both as to Law and Fact, with such Exceptions, and under such Regulations as the Congress shall make...." Article: " Federalist 81: The Judiciary Continued, and the Distribution of the Judicial Authority" by Alexander Hamilton. " We have seen that the original jurisdiction of the Supreme Court would be confined to two classes of causes, and those of a nature rarely to occur. In all other cases of federal cognizance, the original jurisdiction would appertain to the inferior tribunals; and the Supreme Court would have nothing more than an appellate jurisdiction, "with such EXCEPTIONS and under such REGULATIONS as the Congress shall make.''" Article: " Constitution of the United States", article 3 section 2. "... the supreme Court shall have appellate Jurisdiction, both as to Law and Fact, with such Exceptions, and under such Regulations as the Congress shall make..."
Quote: " If taken seriously, our colleagues' assumption that the identity of a speaker has no relevance to the Government's ability to regulate political speech would lead to some remarkable conclusions. Such an assumption would have accorded the propaganda broadcasts to our troops by "Tokyo Rose" during World War II the same protection as speech by Allied commanders. More pertinently, it would appear to afford the same protection to multinational corporations controlled by foreigners as to individual Americans" - Justice Stevens.
Turkey Throws Trump's Pathetic Letter in the Trash: What Happens When A Billionaire Con Man Gets In Office...
Quote: "John Marshall has made his decision: now let him enforce it!" -- Andrew Jackson.
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Friday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 12-3pm ET
Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal, U.S. Congressmember (D-WA, 7th District) & Co-Chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus / Senior Whip-Democratic Caucus & serves on multiple committees including the House Budget Committee & the House Judiciary Committee, will be here to discuss Issues of the day.
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Watch & Listen to Thom
White House Insider Is Profiting Off Trump's Chaos Economy w/Richard Wolff
How the Supreme Court Put Money In Politics!
Worker Begs Rep. Pocan To Take His Private Healthcare Away (w/ Mark Pocan)
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