Donald Trump was bragging a week or so ago that Obama had "left me 128 judges to fill" as if Obama was just sloppy. The actual number was 105, but Obama didn't "leave" them; he'd appointed genuinely qualified people, many women and minorities, to fill every single one of those judicial slots, and Mitch McConnell simply blocked them in the senate for the last two years of the Obama presidency.

McConnell even blocked Obama's appointment of a brilliant Black attorney, Myra Selby, to the Seventh Circuit Court just to keep the seat open for Amy Coney Barrett, who now occupies that stolen seat in her first job as a federal judge.

Read more here.

-Thom

Monday's Daily Stack

Article: "Amy Coney Barrett supreme court nomination hearings begin in Washington – live" by Joan E Greve and Martin Belam.

Article: "It's Time to Unpack the Court" by Thom Hartmann.

Quote: "You know one of the reasons I'll have so many judges? Because President Obama and him left me 128 judges to fill. They left 128 openings." - Donald J. Trump.

Article: "Senate obstructionism handed a raft of judicial vacancies to Trump-what has he done with them?" by Russell Wheeler.

Article: "Myra C. Selby" by Wikipedia.

Article: "What Happened With Merrick Garland In 2016 And Why It Matters Now" by Ron Elving.

Article: "Republicans ruthlessly reshaped America to hold onto power - can Dems do the same thing to save it?" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "13th Amendment", December 6, 1865. "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."

Article: "14th Amendment, July 9, 1868 (citizenship, representatives, public debt, Equal Protection Clause)

Article: "15th Amendment", February 3, 1870 "The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude"

Article: "'SCOTUScare': Here's What Amy Coney Barrett Has Said About Obamacare In The Past" by Thomas Catenacci.

Article: "'Let me translate that into English': CNN's Toobin cracks Amy Coney Barrett's legal code words" by Brad Reed.

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

Article: "Indigenous Peoples' Day 2020: How it Began and How to Celebrate" by Antoinette Bueno.

Article: "Trayvon Martin Shooting Fast Facts" by CNN.

Article: "Trump campaigns where Trayvon Martin died".

Article: "Juneteenth" (June 19, 1865) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Trump makes a rare retreat by rescheduling Juneteenth rally in Tulsa" by Maeve Reston.

Article: "Judicial Crisis Network" by Wikipedia.

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

Article: "Schumer announces Dems will not supply the quorum for Barrett confirmation vote" by Robert Jonathan.

Article: "Sen. Mike Lee spoke without a mask at Amy Coney Barrett's Supreme Court hearing less than 2 weeks after testing positive for the coronavirus" by Jake Lahut.

Law: "Tenth Circuit Act of 1863" by Wikipedia.

Article: "'This Hearing is a Sham': Amy Klobuchar Buries Barrett Confirmation Proceeding in Blistering Opener" by Joe DePaolo.

Article: "The Past 5 GOP Presidents Have Used Fraud and Treason to Steer Themselves to Electoral Victory" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Charles Koch's Big Bet on Barrett" by Christopher Leonard.

Article: "What Do the Koch Brothers Want?" (1980 Libertarian Party platform) by Sen. Bernie Sanders.

Article: "Americans for Prosperity" by Wikipedia.

Article: "FreedomWorks" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Obamacare repeal would bring a huge tax cut for the rich, research shows" by Adriana Belmonte.

Article: "California Republicans Set Up Unofficial Ballot Drop-Off Boxes Deemed Illegal By State Officials" by Siladitya Ray.

Tweet: "The line of voters at George Pierce Park in Suwanee.... [video]" by tyler, the reporter.

Book: The Hidden History of the Supreme Court and the Betrayal of America by Thom Hartmann.

Law: "The National Labor Relations Act (The Wagner Act)", 1935.

Article: "Dianne Feinstein" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Originalism" by Wikipedia.

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

Article: "How Charismatic Catholic Groups Like Amy Coney Barrett's People of Praise Inspired 'The Handmaid's Tale'" by Khaleda Rahman.

Book: Rights of Man by Thomas Paine.

Article: "READ: Amy Coney Barrett's opening statement to Senate Judiciary Committee".

Article: "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood.

Article: "We Are All Originalists Now, Sort of" by David McDonald.

Article: "Justice Kagan Throws Shade on Her Originalist Colleagues" by Marcia Coyle.

Article: "350 health professionals sign letter to Congress claiming Trump's mental health is deteriorating dangerously amid impeachment proceedings" by Tom Porter.

Article: "25th Amendment Section 4" "Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President..."

Article: "Marcus Junius Brutus" by Wikipedia.

Article: "WATCH: Fly Gets Caught in Mike Pence's Hair During Vice Presidential Debate" by C.C. Strand.

Article: "Pence's Red Eye Raises COVID Concerns" by Aaron Gould Sheinin.

Event: Thu Oct 15, 3:30 - 4:30 PM ET: "Virtual Events - The Hidden History of Monopolies: How Big Business Destroyed the American Dream" - Thom Hartmann and David Korten.

Article: "North Korea parades huge new ICBM, but Kim Jong Un stresses deterrent nature" by Simon Denyer and Simon Denyer.

Article: "Russia's Top State TV Anchor Dmitry Kiselyov On U.S. Election: Flip A Coin, Nothing Will Change" by Tim Hains.

Article: "Roe v. Wade/Dissent White" by WikiSource.

Case: "Buck v. Bell" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Trump's Leading Pick To Replace RBG Believes Husbands Should Rule Over Wives" by William James.

The armed militia plot to kidnap, kill Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer...
- Garlin Gilchrist II, Lt. Governor - Office of Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer

Article: "Feds say they thwarted militia plot to kidnap Whitmer" by Robert Snell.

Article: "2 suspects in alleged Whitmer kidnapping plot held on $10 million bond" by WJRT.

Article: "13 men charged in alleged plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer" by Tom Winter et al.

Article: "Some of those charged in Whitmer plot attended Michigan Capitol rallies, witnesses say" by Craig Mauger.

Article: "The NRA Supported Gun Control When the Black Panthers Had the Weapons" by Thad Morgan.

Article: "Mulford Act" by Wikipedia.

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