Donald Trump is running around the country encouraging people to congregate and behave in ways that spread the coronavirus, and not a single Republican in Congress is warning their constituents about the dangers.

How is this different from Jim Jones encouraging his followers to drink cyanide-laced Kool-Aid while his enablers stand by? Isn't it just a matter of severity?

Jones's exhortation killed virtually everybody who listened to it, 909 people. Trump's decisions, words and behavioral example have killed two hundred thousand people, and the number is rising rapidly.

And now we have Republican senators who have been exposed to and, in one case tested positive for, the coronavirus and they insist on hanging out with elderly colleagues without masks at the Supreme Court hearings.

Read more here.

-Thom

Tuesday's Daily Stack

Article: "Joe Biden finally admits he is 'not a fan of court packing' after repeatedly ducking the question amid the confirmation hearings for Amy Coney Barrett" by Jack Newman.

Article: "Live updates: Amy Coney Barrett faces questions on Day 2 of Senate hearings" by Melissa Quinn, Grace Segers, Stefan Becket.

Article: "Amy Coney Barrett uses the offensive term 'sexual preference' to refer to LGBTQ people, who she falsely claims she's never discriminated against" by Eliza Relman.

Article: "Who Is Michele Bachmann's Husband? New Details On Marcus Bachmann" by Samantha Maffucci.

Article: "Senator Gary Peters Shares His Abortion Story" by Laura Bassett.

Article: "Jim Jones" by Wikipedia.

Article: "GOP Sen. Mike Lee speaks without mask at Barrett hearing despite positive COVID-19 test" by Brendan Morrow.

Article: "Trump supporter regrets not taking COVID seriously: ‘I feel like a drunk driver that killed his family'" by Brad Reed.

Article: "Donald Trump and the Central Park Five: the racially charged rise of a demagogue" by Oliver Laughland.

Article: "Central Park jogger case" (Central Park Five) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Three years after Hurricane Maria, Trump is still failing Puerto Rico" by Kamala Harris.

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

Article: "45,000 Deaths Annually Linked To Lack Of Health Coverage" by Healthleaders.

Article: "Big oil remembers 'friend' Trump with millions in campaign funds" by Peter Stone.

Article: "Super Spreader Trump Holds White House Event, Puts Supporters at Risk" by Peter Wade.

Article: "Barrett cites 'Ginsburg rule' that Ginsburg didn't follow" by Mark Sherman.

Article: "In Context: The 'Biden Rule' on Supreme Court nominations in an election year" by C. Eugene Emery Jr.

Article: "Nevada Man Hospitalized After Catching More Severe COVID-19 Case the Second Time" by FNR Tigg.

Article: "Far-right plotters 'discussed kidnapping Virginia governor Ralph Northam'" by AP.

Article: "Mitch McConnell blasted for laughing over failure to pass Covid relief bill" by Andrew Naughtie.

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"

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

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

Article: "9th Amendment"

Article: "10th Amendment" "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people"

Article: "Watch: Top Democrat Exposes Amy Coney Barrett as a Tool of Shadowy Far Right Dark Money Groups Right to Her Face" by David Badash.

Video: "MONEY AND BIAS" Sheldon Whitehouse ASKS NO QUESTIONS Of Judge Amy Coney Barrett.

Quote: "the American people should have a say in the court's direction" - Mitch McConnell.

Quote: "the American people shouldn't be denied a voice" - Senator Ted Cruz.

Quote: "You don't do this in an election year" - Senator Grassley.

Quote: "If an opening comes in the last year of president Trump's term we'll wait till the next election" - Lyndsey Graham.

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

Case: "Obergefell v. Hodges".

Article: "GOP platform".

Quote: "We want to terminate health care under Obamacare" - Donald J. Trump.

Case: "NFIB v. Sebelius".

Quote: "That [reversing Roe v Wade] will happen automatically, in my opinion, because I am putting pro-life justices on the court" - Donald J. Trump.

Quote: "I will vote only for nominees who acknowledge that Roe v. Wade is wrongly decided" - Senator Josh Hawley.

Case: "June Medical Services v. Stephen Russo".

Article: "Susan B Anthony List" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Groups focused on abortion rights spend big amid SCOTUS fight" by Eliana Miller.

Article: "Federalist Society" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Leonard Leo" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Federalist Society's Leonard Leo is helping Trump make courts more conservative" by Robert O'Harrow Jr. and Shawn Boburg.

Article: "Judicial Crisis Network" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Carrie Severino" by Judicial Crisis Network.

Case: "Seila Law LLC v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau".

Article: "Bradley Foundation" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Right-Wing Foundations Fund Anti-Consumer Protection Groups, 2014-present" by Center for Media and Democracy .

Case: "Janus v. AFSCME".

Case: "Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association".

Case: "Knox v. Service Employees International Union, Local 1000".

Article: "Behind Janus: Documents Reveal Decade-Long Plot to Kill Public-Sector Unions" by Mary Bottari.

Article: "Donors to the Federalist Society, 2014-present" by Center for Media and Democracy.

Article: "A conservative activist's behind-the-scenes campaign to remake the nation's courts" by Robert O'Harrow Jr. and Shawn Boburg.

Documents: "2014 Bradley Leonard Leo Neil Corkery Carrie Severino Judicial+Education+Project" by .

Article: "Republican Attorneys General Association" (RAGA) by Ballotpedia.

Case: "McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission", 2014

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

Article: "'Gerrymandering On Steroids': How Republicans Stacked The Nation's Statehouses"(REDMAP) by David Daley.

Case: "Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission" (2010)

Article: "Watergate scandal" by Wikipedia.

Case: "Buckley v. Valeo", 1976

Case: "First National Bank Of Boston V. Bellotti", 1978

Speech: "A Rendezvous With Destiny", Franklin D. Roosevelt, 27 June 1936 speech to the Democratic National Convention, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. "These economic royalists complain that we seek to overthrow the institutions of America. What they really complain of is that we seek to take away their power. Our allegiance to American institutions requires the overthrow of this kind of power."

Speech: "Madison Square Garden Speech", President Franklin D. Roosevelt, October 31, 1936. "They are unanimous in their hate for me-and I welcome their hatred"

Article: "The Powell Memo or Powell Manifesto".

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

Article: "COVID treatment Trump touted as a "cure" was developed using cells derived from aborted fetal tissue" by Kate Smith.

Site: I Will Vote.

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