If one of Trump's larger crimes involved leaning on Anthony Kennedy to resign & greasing the skids for a pliable stooge in Brett Kavanaugh, Americans & Congress have an absolute right to know.

During the confirmation process for Brett Kavanaugh, over 4500 tips about sexual assault, gambling and other issues came into the FBI, including several now known to have come from highly credible sources. Instead of investigating them, we learned this week, Chris Wray's FBI handed them over to the Trump White House…where they died.

At the very least, this calls into question the legitimacy of Kavanaugh's seat on the Supreme Court. A seat he gained after Neil Gorsuch was given a seat for which President Obama had nominated Merrick Garland, putting an asterisk next to Gorsuch's seat as well.

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

Friday's Daily Stack

Article: "Trump's Supreme Court Crime Spree " by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Jared Kushner's $1.2 billion miracle" by Judd Legum.

Article: "How Did the Kavanaughs Afford Their $1,225,000 Home?" by Greg Olear.

Tweet: "This long-delayed answer confirms how badly we were spun by Director Wray and the FBI in the Kavanaugh background investigation and hearing. [link]" by Sheldon Whitehouse.

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

Article: "Trump Ally's UAE Lobbying Struck Heart of Democracy, U.S. Says" by Patricia Hurtado, Peter Martin and Mark Niquette.

Article: "President Trump's legacy of corruption, four years and 3,700 conflicts of interest later" by CREW.

Article: "Complete timeline of Trump-Kushner connection to Saudi Arabia, UAE isn't secret—but still shocking" by Mark Sumner.

Article: "Senator Chuck Grassley: Questions for the Record: Judge Brett Kavanaugh: Nominee, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States".

Article: "The Many Mysteries of Brett Kavanaugh's Finances" by Stephanie Mencimer.

Video: "Five Trump Cabinet officials were referred to federal prosecutors; DOJ declined them all".

Article: "What Brett Kavanaugh Must Be Asked About Torture, Guantánamo, and Mass Surveillance" by Amy Davidson Sorkin.

Article: "Inside the White House's Quiet Campaign to Create a Supreme Court Opening" by Adam Liptak and Maggie Haberman.

Article: "White House Withholds 100,000 Pages of Judge Brett Kavanaugh's Records" by Sheryl Gay Stolberg.

Article: ""Did Anthony Kennedy Resign from the Supreme Court to Protect His Son?" by David Mikkelson.

Article: "A Brief History of Clarence Thomas' Ethical Entanglements" by Ujala Sehgal.

Article: "Collusion: How Russia Helped Trump Win the White House by Luke Harding – review" by Charles Kaiser.

Article: "The FBI's 'investigation' of Kavanaugh was laughable" by Ruth Marcus.

Article: "The fall of Deutsche Bank: Lies, greed, money laundering and Donald Trump" by Steven Pearlstein.

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

Case: "Shelby County v. Holder", 2013.

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

Article: "Lewis F. Powell Jr." by Wikipedia.

Article: "Anthony Kennedy" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Christine Blasey Ford" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Neil Gorsuch" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Amy Coney Barrett" by Wikipedia.

Article: "COVID-19 Vaccines While Pregnant or Breastfeeding" by CDC.

Article: "Delta Variant In Los Angeles: 20% Of Covid Cases Now Among Vaccinated Residents" by Tom Tapp.

Site: Alert wildfire.

Article: "Oregon becomes first US state to decriminalise hard drugs" by BBC.

Article: "Portugal decriminalised drugs 14 years ago - and now hardly anyone dies from overdosing" by Chris Ingraham.

Article: "North American Free Trade Agreement" (NAFTA) by Wikipedia

Article: "Jeff Bezos thanked Amazon workers for paying for his space flight. For some, the feeling isn't mutual." by Tyler Sonnemaker, Aleeya Mayo, Charles Davis, Ben Gilbert.

Article: "Jeff Bezos says polluting industries can be moved to space" by Caitlin Yilek.

Article: "Evangelicalism" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Jerry Falwell Sr." by Wikipedia.

Article: "Franklin Graham" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Fundamentalism" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Lyman Stewart" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Federal Council of Churches" by Wikipedia.

TV: "The Tudors".

Event: July 24: March For Medicare For All.

Article: "Nina Turner announces bid to succeed Marcia Fudge in Congress" by Seth A. Richardson.

Article: "Nina Turner" by Wikipedia.

Article: "'A Huge Outrage': Senate Panel Approves $25 Billion Pentagon Budget Increase" by Jake Johnson.

Article: "Can America Go from Empire to "Good Neighbor?" " by Thom Hartmann.

Book: "Cracking the Code" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Tax Dodgers Owe US Over $7 Trillion, Says Janet Yellen" by Sharon Zhang.

Article: "Jesús "Chuy" García" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Bill that could cause minimum insurance requirements for truckers to skyrocket is reintroduced" by Ashley.

Hour Two: Progressive Town Hall
- Representative Ro Khanna (D-CA, 17th District) @RepRoKhanna

Video: Bernie Sanders Sits Down With Ro Khanna To Break Down Reconciliation And Tax Plan.

Article: "Gov. Ducey eliminates $300 federal unemployment payments, announces $2,000 back-to-work bonus" by abc15.com.

Article: "Medicare Advantage" (Medicare Part C) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Guideline For Prescribing Opioids For Chronic Pain" by CDC.

Site: youarewithinthenorms.

Bill: "H.R.3775 - State-Based Universal Health Care Act of 2021" by Rep. Khanna, Ro [D-CA-17].

Article: "Tommy Douglas" (father of Canadian Healthcare) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Why Vermont's single-payer effort failed and what Democrats can learn from it" by Amy Goldstein.

Article: "Sean Hannity Urges Viewers to Get COVID Vaccine: 'Enough People Have Died'" by Virginia Chamlee.

Article: "The Caine Mutiny" by Herman Wouk.

Article: "Trump's PAC collected $75 million this year, but so far the group has not put money into pushing for the 2020 ballot reviews he touts" by Josh Dawsey, Rosalind Helderman.

Article: "Biden's executive order takes on right-to-repair. It could make fixing your smartphone easier" by Clare Duffy.

Article: "Travelers Prohibited from Entry to the United States" by CDC.

Article: "EV battery-swapping finds new life in China" by Wang Tianyu.

Video: EV battery-swapping finds new life in China.

Site: Global Coalition for Digital Safety (WEF).

Article: "House passes $1.5 trillion infrastructure bill, but McConnell calls it 'pointless political theater'" by Michael Laris.

Article: "Alabama Republican Gov. Ivey says 'start blaming the unvaccinated folks' for rise in Covid cases" by Veronica Stracqualursi.

Article: "Electric cars: What will happen to all the dead batteries?" by Emma Woollacott.

Bill: "H.R.2227 - ICBM Act" (Investing in Cures Before Missiles Act) by Rep. Khanna, Ro [D-CA-17].

Article: "House Defeats Amendment To Cut Defense Spending Levels by 10%" by Eric Garris.

Article: "The Decade's Biggest Political Deadline" by Walker Bragman.

Bill: "H.R.1 - For the People Act of 2021" by Rep. Sarbanes, John P. [D-MD-3].

Bill: "S.1 - For the People Act of 2021" by Sen. Merkley, Jeff [D-OR].

Article: "Redwood Materials is setting up shop near the Tesla Gigafactory as part of broader expansion" by Kirsten Korosec.

Article: "Denmark to power electric cars by wind in vehicle-to-grid experiment" by Duncan Graham-Rowe.

Article: "2022 Ford F-150 Lightning is an electric pickup that can power your house for days" by Craig Cole.

Article: "McConnell: 'Highly unlikely' I would let Biden fill supreme court seat in 2024" by Martin Pengelly.

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

Video: Five Trump Cabinet officials were referred to federal prosecutors; DOJ declined them all.

Article: "The US has mostly withdrawn from Afghanistan, and we still have no plan to save interpreters left behind" by Jeff Schogol.

Article: "Evacuations for Afghans Who Helped U.S. Troops Will Begin This Month" by Glenn Thrush, Adam Nossiter, Eric Schmitt and Katie Rogers.

Bill: "S.4263 - John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act" by Sen. Leahy, Patrick J. [D-VT].

Article: "Mitch McConnell cancels Congress's summer vacation" by Joe Perticone.

Article: "Joe Biden town hall in Cincinnati: Here's the full CNN transcript" (July 21, 2021).

Article: "Newsmax viewers are nearly twice as likely to refuse the vaccine than Fox News watchers, new poll finds" by Jake Lahut.

Video: Druckenmiller warns of 'dire consequences' of more government spending.

Article: "History of the United States public debt" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Dwight D. Eisenhower and the birth of the Interstate Highway System" by Lee Lacy.

Quote: "Every constitution then, and every law, naturally expires at the end of 19 years. If it be enforced longer, it is an act of force, and not of right." - Thomas Jefferson.

Site: "Convention of States".

Article: "Discharge of radioactive water of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Bluefin tuna record Fukushima radioactivity" by Jonathan Amos.

Article: "Joe Biden Gave a Great Speech on Voting Rights. I Just Wish It Mattered." by Charles P. Pierce.

Bible: "God blessed them and said to them, 'Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.'" - Genesis 1:28.

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