Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died, and while everybody is focusing on abortion, the Supreme Court, if it falls into hard-core conservative hands, could do massive damage to the entire spectrum of life in America.

Ever since the 1930s, Republicans have been trying to either destroy or privatize Social Security, and a hard right conservative majority on the Court could make that happen.

Since the 1960s, Republicans have been yelling that Medicare and Medicaid are actually forms of socialism. While a conservative Court will almost certainly destroy Obamacare, it's also likely to end Medicare and Medicaid.

Read more here.

-Thom

Monday's Daily Stack

Article: "Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg dies at 87" by The Week.

Article: "Ginsburg's death on Rosh Hashanah especially significant for some Jewish Americans" by Reuters.

Article: "Trump says he will name Supreme Court nominee Friday or Saturday, list down to 5" by Tucker Higgins.

Article: "Introducing Trump's Potential Supreme Court Nominees" by Abigail Covington.

Article: "Lochner era" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Social Security Act of 1935" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Trump promises permanent cut to payroll tax funding Social Security and Medicare if he's reelected" by Tony Romm.

Article: "Social Security could come to a screeching halt" by Nancy Altman.

Article: "Supreme Court to hear challenge to Obamacare on Nov. 10, a week after Election Day" by Tucker Higgins.

Article: "Justice Scalia: Constitution is 'dead'" by Clare Kim.

Article: "The Federalist Papers : No. 44: Restrictions on the Authority of the Several States" by James Madison. ("Without the SUBSTANCE of this power, the whole Constitution would be a dead letter.")

Site: National Popular Vote.

Article: "Federalist society" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Mercatus Center" by Wikipedia.

Site: Heritage Foundation

Article: "Cato Institute" by Wikipedia.

Site: Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI).

Article: "Packing the Supreme Court explained" by Scott Bomboy.

Article: "The forgotten history of how Abraham Lincoln helped rig the Senate for Republicans" by Ian Millhiser.

Article: "Midnight Judges Act" (Judiciary Act of 1801) by Wikipedia.

Law: "Judiciary Act of 1802" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Portland, Ore., Mayor Bans Police Use Of Tear Gas At Protests" by Bill Chappell.

Article: "DOJ names New York City, Portland, Seattle 'anarchist jurisdictions' that could lose federal funding" by Kristine Phillips, Ryan W. Miller.

Article: ""Tyrannical and un-American": ACLU rebukes Barr for urging sedition charges against protesters" by Brett Wilkins.

Article: "Sedition - United States" by Wikipedia.

Tweet: ""Are you having a good time with your refugees?" -- Trump immediately pivots to full blown racism" by Aaron Rupar.

Article: "Bill Barr Wants Protesters Charged With Trying To Overthrow The U.S. Government" by Bess Levin.

Article: "Dallas School Apologizes for Assignment Describing Kyle Rittenhouse as 'Hero'" by NBC Chicago.

Tweet: ""He got hit on the knee with a canister of tear gas," President Trump says, of @AliVelshi, who was actually hit by a rubber bullet. "Wasn't it really a beautiful sight? It's called law and order."" by David Gura.

Article: "Trump Calls It A 'Beautiful Thing' That Cops Struck Journalist Ali Velshi With Rubber Bullet" by Mary Papenfuss.

Article: "In Minnesota, Trump Praises His Crowd's 'Good Genes' - Accused of Promoting 'Eugenics'" by Haaretz, AP.

Article: "Trump says Minnesota will be 'overrun and destroyed' by refugees if Biden wins: 'Good luck, enjoy yourselves'" by John T. Bennett.

Article: "First Amendment to the United States Constitution"

Case: "National Socialist Party of America v. Village of Skokie".

Article: "Ilhan Omar" by Wikipedia.

Tweet: ""We'll prosecute 'em. Yeah. Why not?" -- Trump suggests congress members AOC, Ilhan Omar, and Rashida Tlaib should be prosecuted" by Aaron Rupar.

Article: "Trump Hails Robert E. Lee In Minnesota, State That Lost Thousands To Confederate Troops" by Mary Papenfuss.

Article: "Saturday – Republicans Tried Voter Intimidation at Fairfax County Government Center; Monday Morning – "Huge Line" of Voters Waiting to Cast Their Ballots!" by lowkell.

Article: "Roe v. Wade" by History Channel.

Site: I Will Vote.

Book: Break It Up: Secession, Division, and the Secret History of America's Imperfect Union by Richard Kreitner.

Article: "How Billionaires' Short-Term Greed Could Upend America and Destroy Their Own Wealth" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Trump has appointed second-most federal judges through June 1 of a president's fourth year" by Sara Reynolds.

Article: "Half of Americans Can't Name A Supreme Court Justice, Poll Finds" by Tim Marcin.

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: "Nuclear option" by Wikipedia.

Hour Two: Community Policing, RBG & What's At Stake In This Election?
- Laura Flanders, Host-The Laura Flanders Show on PBS stations nationwide / / host-Grit TV / Contributor-The Nation Magazine & Author of 6 books including, Blue GRIT: True Democrats Take Back Politics from the Politicians

Article: "Tim Kaine takes fighting Trump's court takeover off the table: 'I'm asking Republicans to be true to their word'" by David Edwards.

Article: "Harriet Tubman" by Wikipedia.

Video: Public Safety in Public Hands: The Newark Model.

Article: "12th Amendment"

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

Article: "Russ Feingold Takes the Helm at the American Constitution Society" by Jacqueline Thomsen.

Site: American Constitution Society.

Article: "Lindsey Graham" by Wikipedia.

Article: "John McCain" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Cohen: Trump Hates Obama Because He's Black" by Rob Quinn.

Article: "Trump Announces Executive Order Establishing '1776 Commission' To Combat '1619 Project'" by Tristan Justice.

Article: "The 1619 Project" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Do new Texas textbooks whitewash slavery and segregation?" by Michael Schaub.

Article: "Virginia Urges Slavery Lessons for Kindergarteners" by Chrissy Clark.

Article: "ICE Guards "Systematically" Sexually Assault Detainees in an El Paso Detention Center, Lawyers Say" by Lomi Kriel.

Article: "ICE Deported a Woman Who Accused Guards of Sexual Assault While the Feds Were Still Investigating the Incident" by Lomi Kriel.

Article: "'Like an Experimental Concentration Camp': Whistleblower Complaint Alleges Mass Hysterectomies at ICE Detention Center" by Jerry Lambe.

Article: "Confirmation bias" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Trump's possible Supreme Court nominees: Amy Coney Barrett considered lead contender, 3 other judges on shortlist" by ABC7.

Article: "How Bloomberg's $100 million Florida bet may shape campaign" by Alexandra Jaffe, Brian Slodysko.

Article: "A Hard-Right Supreme Court Nominee Could Completely Alter Life as We Know It" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Cory Gardner" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Martha McSally" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Fairness Doctrine" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Monsanto Forced Fox TV to Censor Coverage of Dangerous Milk Drug" by Jeffrey Smith.

Hour Three: White Supremacists Are a Threat To This Election
- Ken Klippenstein, DC Correspondent - The Nation Magazine

Article: "White Supremacists Are a Threat to Elections, Says the DHS" by Ken Klippenstein.

Article: "Suspect in killing of 2 Bay Area officers tied to right-wing 'boogaloo' group, prosecutors allege" by Maura Dolan, Richard Winton, Anita Chabria.

Article: "Who Are Antifa, and Are They a Threat?" by Seth G. Jones.

Article: "Weather Underground" by Wikipedia.

Article: "'Umbrella Man' Who Smashed Windows in Minneapolis Is a White Supremacist Member of Hell's Angels: Police" by Madeline Charbonneau.

Article: "Jaime Harrison" by Wikipedia.

Site: Jaime Harrison for Senate.

Article: "Mitt Romney" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Chuck Grassley" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Joni Ernst" by Wikipedia.

Site: Indivisible

Article: "CDC stumbles again, mistakenly posting 'draft' guidance on airborne Covid spread" by Erika Edwards.

Article: "Adults with Covid-19 about 'twice as likely' to say they have dined at a restaurant, CDC study suggests" by Jacqueline Howard.

Article: "CDC Says New COVID-19 Guidelines That Said Virus Can Travel More Than 6 Feet In Air Were Accidentally Updated" by Brianna Lyman.

Article: "New CDC study highlights threat of coronavirus spread on lengthy flights".

Article: "Taiwan's COVID-19 Success Story Continues as Neighbors Fend Off New Outbreaks" by Nick Aspinwall.

Article: "COVID-19 pandemic in Taiwan" by Wikipedia.

Article: "As infections ebb, Japan hopes it has cracked the covid code on coexisting with the virus" by Simon Denyer.

Article: "Judiciary of Germany" by Wikipedia.

Article: "This Is How FDR Tried to Pack the Supreme Court" by Lesley Kennedy.

What's At Stake With the Courts?
- Alphonso David, President - Human Rights Campaign (the nation's largest organization fighting for LGBTQ equality)/ Attorney & LGBT Civil Rights Leader

Article: "Bostock v. Clayton County", 2020 by Wikipedia.

Article: "Demographics of the Supreme Court of the United States" by Wikipedia.

Quote: "The generally accepted notion that the court can only hear roughly 150 cases each term gives the same sense of reassurance as the adjournment of the court in July, when we know the Constitution is safe for the summer." - Future Chief Justice John Roberts, April 19, 1983.

Article: "About the Supreme Court" by United States Courts.

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