George W. Bush and Donald Trump both lost the popular vote, by a half-million and 3 million votes respectively, yet occupied the White House even though a majority of Americans didn't want them there.

Similarly, in 2012 Democrats got 1.4 million more votes nationwide for the House of Representatives, yet that body was controlled by Republicans with a 33 seat "majority."

There are numerous states where the majority vote goes for Democrats, producing a Democratic governor, but, because of gerrymandering, the state legislatures and their congressional delegations are still controlled by Republicans.

Read more here.

-Thom

Monday's Daily Stack

Article: "Summer Solstice 2020: The First Day Of Summer" by almanac.com.

Article: "Trump's Tulsa Rally Attendance: 6,200, Fire Dept. Says" by Giovanni Russonello.

Article: "Al Franken mocks Trump for having lower turnout in Tulsa than John Tesh and these others" by Sarah K. Burris.

Article: "We need to plan now in case Trump loses in November - but refuses to leave the White House" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "12th Amendment"

Article: "The Hayes-Tilden Electoral Commission" by James Monroe.

Tweet: "RIGGED 2020 ELECTION: MILLIONS OF MAIL-IN BALLOTS WILL BE PRINTED BY FOREIGN COUNTRIES, AND OTHERS. IT WILL BE THE SCANDAL OF OUR TIMES!" by Donald J. Trump.

Tweet: "In 2016, Pres. Trump claimed voter fraud to explain his loss in the popular vote. It was a lie. Now, with horrible polling, he's trying to delegitimize the vote - through suppression and more lies about voting by mail. This is a big story. Put all his allies on the record." by Dan Rather.

Tweet: "WARNING: Trump is telling us that he'll refuse to accept a loss this November as legitimate. We need to believe him and prepare to fight back if we're to preserve our democracy." by Laurence Tribe.

Article: "Bolton book says Trump sought Xi's 2020 help, roiling race anew" by Jordan Fabian and Nick Wadhams.

Article: "China Warms to Idea of Four More Years of Trump Presidency" by Bloomberg.

Article: "FBI investigating noose left in NASCAR stall of Black driver" by CNBC.

Article: "FBI Reviewing Investigations of Recent Hangings as Third Man Found Dead in Houston" by Soo Kim.

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

Article: "2000 United States presidential election" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Donald Trump has lost popular vote by greater margin than any US President" by Benjamin Kentish.

Article: "'This is a war': Republicans ramp up bid to control election maps for next decade" by Shilpa Jindia.

Article: "How popular is Donald Trump?" by FiveThirtyEight.

Case: "Bush v. Gore", 2000. "The individual citizen has no federal constitutional right to vote for electors for the President of the United States"

Article: "AG Barr says Trump fired Berman after U.S. attorney didn't resign" by Sommer Brokaw & Christen McCurdy.

Article: "Preet Bharara" by Wikipedia.

Article: "As Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Face Criminal Probes, Barr Fires Top Prosecutor; Tries to Replace Him with Banks' Former Lawyer, Jay Clayton" by Pam Martens and Russ Martens.

Article: "Columbus police accused of pepper-spraying double amputee and 'stealing' his prosthetic legs" by David Edwards.

Article: "Rate of police killings in selected countries 2019" by Statista.

Article: "Erik Prince" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Steve Bannon" by Wikipedia.

Article: "QAnon" by Wikipedia.

Book: Proof of Conspiracy: How Trump's International Collusion is Threatening American Democracy by Seth Abramson.

Article: "Two Missouri hairstylists with coronavirus saw 140 clients in their salon, but no one got infected" by Anna Medaris Miller.

Article: "Beijing's Partial Lockdown a Sign of the World's New Normal" by Chris Buckley and Keith Bradsher.

Quote: "Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss." - Douglas Adams.

Article: "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" by Douglas Adams.

Article: "Trump Can't Immediately End DACA, Supreme Court Rules" by Adam Liptak and Michael D. Shear.

Tweet: "The Supreme Court asked us to resubmit on DACA, nothing was lost or won. They "punted", much like in a football game (where hopefully they would stand for our great American Flag). We will be submitting enhanced papers shortly in order to properly fulfil the Supreme Court's....." by Donald J. Trump.

Tweet: "...ruling & request of yesterday. I have wanted to take care of DACA recipients better than the Do Nothing Democrats, but for two years they refused to negotiate - They have abandoned DACA. Based on the decision the Dems can't make DACA citizens. They gained nothing! @DHSgov" by Donald J. Trump.

Article: "John Roberts" by Wikipedia.

Article: "The Biggest Abortion Case in Years Looks Like a Nail-Biter Already" (June Medical Services v. Russo) by Emily Shugerman.

Article: "Supreme Court appears headed for a split decision on Trump taxes, financial records" by Pete Williams.

Hour Two: Debate - Electoral College Vs. the Popular Vote
- Professor Robert M. Hardaway, Professor of Law - University of Denver Sturm College of Law / Author, numerous law review articles & books, including his latest, Saving the Electoral College: Why The National Popular Vote Would Undermine Democracy

Article: "Electoral College" by Wikipedia.

Site: National Popular Vote.

Article: "Faithless elector" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Electoral college's 'faithless electors' fail to stop Trump but land democratic blow" by Ed Pilkington.

Article: "Flashback: JFK Once Defended The Electoral College" by Scott Morefield.

Article: "Madison's notes on the Constitutional Convention of 1787: July 20, 1787" by James Madison.

Article: "1960 United States presidential election" by Wikipedia.

Article: "House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler says calls to impeach AG Barr are a 'waste of time' because of 'corrupt Republican majority in the Senate'" by Connor Perrett.

Article: "Faithless Elector Issue Does Not Affect Operation of National Popular Vote" by National Popular Vote.

Article: "Trump Pauses, Then Dodges When Asked if He Actually Ordered Slowdown of Coronavirus Testing" by Ken Meyer.

Article: "Estimated Influenza Illnesses, Medical visits, Hospitalizations, and Deaths in the United States - 2018–2019 influenza season" by CDC.

Article: "COVID-19: Forecasts of Total Deaths" by CDC.

Quote: "A Single Death is a Tragedy; a Million Deaths is a Statistic" - attributed to Joseph Stalin.

Article: "State Department IG fired by Trump was investigating Saudi arms sale that bypassed Congress" by Kevin Breuninger, Amanda Macias.

Article: "Here's what Michael Flynn admitted he lied to the FBI about" by Jen Kirby.

Article: "John Adams" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Objectivism (Ayn Rand)" by Wikipedia.

Article: "16th Amendment. "The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration."

Article: "New Mueller Report Details: Roger Stone Told Trump In Advance WikiLeaks Would Release Clinton Campaign Emails" by Jason Leopold, Anthony Cormier, Ken Bensinger.

Article: "Mueller Report Details Highlight Trump's Interest in Emails Damaging to Clinton" by Sharon LaFraniere.

Quote: "Russia, if you're listening, I hope you're able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing. I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press." - Donald J. Trump.

Article: "Confirmed: Roger Stone was the link between Trump and Russia - and a lot of people missed that" by John Stoehr.

Article: "Trump University" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Donald Trump Jr. and Ivanka Knew 'Ten Thousand Percent' They Were Defrauding Buyers in Trump SoHo Project, New Book Says" by David Brennan.

Article: "Declaration of Independence". "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed"

Article: "Trump accused of not using $14bn for coronavirus testing and contact tracing" by James Crump.

Article: "HHS Secretary Alex Azar Once Doubled The Price of Insulin" by Alexandra Hutzler.

Article: "AP tally: Arrests at widespread US protests hit 10,000" by Anita Snow.

Article: "Wealth inequality in the United States" by Wikipedia.

Article: "$2.2 Trillion CARES Act Provides A Lifeline To Small Businesses" by Rohit Arora.

Article: "How Some Rich Americans Are Getting Stimulus 'Checks' Averaging $1.7 Million" by Shahar Ziv.

Article: "Ranked Choice Voting / Instant Runoff" (RCV) by FairVote.

Article: "US charges Turkish bank with evading sanctions against Iran" by Larry Neumeister.

Article: "Trump and Barr Discard Law, Morality and Honor" by Timothy L. O'Brien.

Article: "William Barr" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Americans Have Been Bilked Out of Billions During the Pandemic From Cynical Profiteers" by Tom Conway.

Article: "Top Trump fundraiser sought to cash in on valuable 3M masks" by Jim Axelrod, Michael Kaplan.

Article: "Ho ho ho: IRS cuts audits of rich, steps up audits of poor after budget cuts" by Igor Derysh.

Article: "IRS Is Letting Some of the Highest-Income Americans Get Away Without Paying Taxes" by Eric Katz.

Article: "GOP senators visited Moscow on July 4, warned Russia against meddling in 2018 election: report" by Emily Birnbaum.

Article: "How Bernie Sanders Spent His Soviet 'Honeymoon'" by Leonid Bershidsky.

Article: "Bannon vows a daily fight for 'deconstruction of the administrative state'" by Philip Rucker and Robert Costa.

Article: "Mike Pompeo Admits COVID-19 Is a "Live Exercise," Trump Retorts "I Wish You Would Have Told Us"" by Shepard Ambellas.

Video: Trump holds MAGA rally in Tulsa, OK.

Article: "GOP Georgia Governor Candidate Purged Voter Rolls" by Greg Palast.

Article: "Texas Governor Greg Abbott Spearheaded Voter Purge That Used Flawed Data, DPS Emails Show" by Christina Zhao.

Article: "Wisconsin Supreme Court case could remove 129K from voter rolls" by Adam Brewster.

Article: "Shelby County v. Holder" by Wikipedia.

Quote: "Figures Don't Lie, But Liars Do Figure" - anon.

Quote: "If you gave [Jerry] Falwell an enema he could be buried in a matchbox." - Christopher Hitchens.

Article: "Barron Trump is a Dual Citizen of Both Slovenia and the US Which is Odd for the Son of the 'America First' President" by Jason Miciak.

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