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Thom's blog
Will American Elections Ever Again Be Legitimate?
 Only an established, legal "right to vote" can defeat Republican voter suppression. Republican politicians and conservative commentators are shocked, shocked! that Chief Justice John Roberts would say that people who voted before election day in Pennsylvania but their ballots were delayed by Lewis DeJoy's sabotage of the Post Office should have their vote counted. Increasingly, this election is coming down to the simple question of how effective 40 years of concerted Republican voter suppression efforts will be. Their main strategy, particularly since George and Jeb Bush got together in 2000 to use a Texas felon list to purge 90,000 Black people off voting roles in Florida, has been removing the names of people who are legitimate voters. Read more here. -Thom |
Tuesday's Daily Stack 
Hour One: Will American Elections Ever Again Be Legitimate?
Quote: "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." -- Malcolm X".
Tweet: " .@SenSasse Want to show *real* political bravery? Block the confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett. Then people may believe you're sincere in your critique of Trump and Trumpism. Otherwise, get out of the way for somebody else who has the courage of their convictions." by Thom Hartmann. Quote: " What this country needs is more unemployed politicians" - Angela Davis.
Hour Three: The 12th Amendment Explained- Congressman Jamie Raskin (D-MD, 8th District) / Previously a Constitutional Law Professor, Rep. Raskin is an expert on the 12th Amendment (FYI, Rep. Raskin serves on these committees: @rulesdemocrats | @housejudiciary | @oversightdems | @houseadm_dems) 
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: " 9th Amendment." "The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people." 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: " Letter to James Madison" by Thomas Jefferson, December 20th, 1787. " I will now tell you what I do not like. First, the omission of a bill of rights, providing clearly, and without the aid of sophism, for freedom of religion, freedom of the press, protection against standing armies, restriction of monopolies, the eternal and unremitting force of the habeas corpus laws, and trials by jury in all matters of fact triable by the laws of the land and not by the laws of nations." 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: " 12th Amendment." "The Electors shall meet in their respective states and vote by ballot for President and Vice-President" |
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