Get ready for the Supreme Court & a handful of GOPers to put Trump, DeSantis, Scott, Cotton or Hawley into the White House regardless of the 2024 election outcome - unless they are stopped now.

Former US Attorney and Deputy Assistant Attorney General Harry Litman has created a bit of a stir in legal circles recently by pointing out that at least three "conservatives" on the US Supreme Court are embracing a Trumpy concept that the Court can go even further than it did in 2000 and essentially award the presidency to whomever they choose via a corrupt deal with Republicans in state legislatures.

In addition, multiple Trumpy Supreme Court justices have been supporting lower court policies that have ruled against the Biden Administration (in this case, with regard to continuing brutal Trump immigration/asylum policies) in ways that avoid actual formal arguments, decisions and dissents and, some legal scholars say, are at best outrageous and possibly even outright unconstitutional.

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-Thom

Wednesday's Daily Stack

Article: "All These Simultaneous Disasters Are Messing With Our Brains" by Jacob Stern.

Book: The Hidden History of American Healthcare: Why Sickness Bankrupts You and Makes Others Insanely Rich by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "The Kauai Longitudinal Study".

Article: "A Report from the Kauai Longitudinal Study" by Emmy E. Werner, Ruth S. Smith.

Site: "Crochet for a Cause".

Article: "Anti-mask Wisconsin Republican put on a ventilator as last-ditch effort fighting COVID" by Sarah K. Burris.

Article: "Could the "Monarchs" on the Supreme Court Tank Democracy?" by Thom Hartmann.

Book: "Unequal Protection: How Corporations Became "People" - And How You Can Fight Back" by Thom Hartmann.

Case: "Santa Clara County vs. Southern Pacific Railroad", 1886

Law: "Judiciary Act of 1789: An Act to Establish the Judicial Courts of the United States".

Case: "The Francis Wright (1881)"

Article: "The Court Stripping Bills: Their Impact on the Constitution, the Courts, and Congress Courts, and Congress" by Max Baucus, Kenneth R. Kay.

Case: "Ex Parte Yerger, 75 U.S. 85 (1868)".

Case: "United States v. Klein, 80 U.S. 128 (1871)".

Case: "Wiscart v. Dauchy, 3 U.S. 321 (1796)".

Case: "Durousseau v. United States, 10 U.S. 307 (1810)".

Case: "Daniels v. Railroad Company, 70 U.S. 250 (1865)".

Case: "The Francis Wright, 105 U.S. 381 (1881)".

Case: "Colorado Central Consol. Mining Co. v. Turck, 150 U.S. 138 (1893)".

Case: "National Mut. Ins. Co. v. Tidewater Transfer Co., Inc., 337 U.S. 582 (1949)".

Case: "Yakus v. United States, 321 U.S. 414 (1944)".

Case: "Flast v. Cohen, 392 U.S. 83 (1968)".

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

Book: "The People Themselves: Popular Constitutionalism and Judicial Review" by Larry D. Kramer.

Article: "Memorandum: Proposals to Divest the Supreme Court of Appellate Jurisdiction: An Analysis in Light of Recent Developments" by John Roberts.

Case: "Brown v. Board".

Case: "Roe v. Wade".

Article: "Dred Scott Case" by History.com.

Article: "Hyde-Smith Attended All-White ‘Seg Academy’ to Avoid Integration" by Ashton Pittman.

Article: "Why the Supreme Court is one of the biggest threats to American democracy" by Harry Litman.

Case: "Marbury v Madison".

Law: "Article III, Section 2 of the Constitution".

Case: "Ex parte McCardle".

Article: "Brown v. Board of Education: Virginia responds" by Library of Virginia.

Article: "Periods As Protest: Indiana Women Call Governor To Talk About Menstrual Cycles" by Camila Domonoske.

Article: "Summary of Lincoln's Arguments at Cooper Union" by NPS.

Article: "The Supreme Court launches a 'political torpedo' right at the Biden administration" by Cody Fenwick.

Law: "U.S. Constitution - Article 3 Section 2: Article 3 - The Judicial Branch: Section 2 - Trial by Jury, Original Jurisdiction, Jury Trials".

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

Article: "More than 90% of Bainbridge Island residents between 12-18 years old have received at least 1 dose of the Covid-19 vaccine!" by Bainbridge Island Community Pharmacy.

Article: "83 new COVID cases confirmed in Kitsap".

Article: "Hunter vs. farmer hypothesis" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Hippocratic Oath" by Wikipedia.

Site: muse.

Article: "View Through a Window May Influence Recovery from Surgery" by Roger S Ulrich.

Article: "Holocene extinction" (sixth mass extinction) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Sinking of the Titanic" by Wikipedia.

Quote: "The best way to fight evil is to make energetic progress in the good" - I Ching.

Hour Two: More Judicial Monarchy...Courts Forcing States to Clean Up Voter Rolls. What?!
- Greg Palast, The Guardian / Investigative Journalist/Author/Filmmaker & Puffin Writing Fellow, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy / His new book, How Trump Stole 2020: The Hunt For America's Vanished Voters

Article: "Court Rules Judicial Watch Lawsuit Can Proceed against Colorado Officials to Force Cleanup of State’s Voter Rolls" by Judicial Watch.

Article: "The Supreme Court launches a 'political torpedo' right at the Biden administration " by Cody Fenwick.

Article: "Election Integrity: Katherine Harris and the Florida 2000 Election" by Janet Maker.

Article: "Jena Griswold" by Wikipedia.

Article: "The GOP's Stealth War Against Voters" (Interstate Crosscheck) by Greg Palast, August 24, 2016.

Article: "National Voter Registration Act of 1993" (Motor Voter Act) by Wikipedia. "The Congress finds that -
(1) the right of citizens of the United States to vote is a fundamental right;"

Article: "Electronic Registration Information Center" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Joseph Stalin said some version of "It's not the people who vote that count, it's the people who count the votes."" by David Emery.

Site: Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC).

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].

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

Article: "The Ex-Con Con-Job" by Greg Palast.

Article: "A North Carolina court panel expands voting rights for parolees and people on probation." by Michael Wines.

Article: "Georgia schools allowed to set their own rules for handling COVID quarantines" by Ty Tagami.

Article: "Why school districts nationwide are facing bus driver shortages " by ANC News.

Article: "Pic Of The Moment: Ron DeSantis Is Winning The Pandemic!" by EarlG.

Article: "Bodies stacked to the ceiling as COVID-19 surge creates backlog at funeral homes, crematories " by WPTZ.

Article: "Florida is the only state where more people are dying of COVID now than ever before. What went wrong?" by Andrew Romano.

Article: "Delta Air Lines is raising health insurance premiums for unvaccinated employees by $200 a month to cover higher Covid costs" by Leslie Josephs.

Tweet: "Right now, the administration is conducting a massive operation in Kabul that has resulted in the evacuation of 50,000 people in eight days. It is also overseeing a life and death battle against COVID that has already resulted in over 200,000,000 Americans receiving the vaccine" by David Rothkopf (thread with other good things the White House is doing or trying to do).

Article: "Biden says US is ‘determined to complete this mission’ as Afghanistan evacuations pass 70,000 - as it happened" by Maanvi Singh, Joan E Greve.

Article: "Kamala Harris kicks off Vietnam visit by calling out China’s ‘bullying’ tactics" by Yen Nee Lee.

Site: "The Righting".

Article: "Trump: 'How Many Terrorists Will Biden Bring to America?'" by Donald J. Trump.

Article: "DHS Braces for Terror Threat on Southern Border" by Joseph Simonson.

Article: "On Terrorism, Biden Is Either Dishonest or Delusional" by Bruce Oliver Newsome.

Article: "Biden’s Gift to Global Jihadists: A Safe National Homeland" by Joseph Klein.

Article: "Biden Administration Must Be Held Accountable for Afghanistan" by Adam Brandon.

Article: "In multiple ways, Trump set the stage for Biden’s Afghanistan debacle" by Quin Hillyer.

Article: "Republicans Silent As Biden Gets 21,600 People Out Of Afghanistan In A Single Day" by Jason Easley.

Bible: "Matthew 6:5-6: Prayer" "And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full. But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you"

Article: "Meditation – Sound Healing – Beloved, Come Home" by Mei-lan Maurits.

Video: Sarah Brightman - Canto Della Terra (HQ).

Bible: "Genesis 3:19". "in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return"

Video: Shocking Persecution of Protesters Revealed (w/Dr. Amara Enyia).

Hour Three: The Handmaid's Tale Isn't Just a TV Show...
- Lala Wu, Co-Founder & Executive Director - Sister District (Former enviro & clean energy lawyer)

Article: "Women's Equality Day – August 26".

Article: "19th Amendment "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 sex."

Article: "Kathy Hochul sworn in as first female governor of New York state" by Ed Pilkington.

Article: "The Roles Of Iroquois Women In The Iroquois Tribe" by Jazmin Kay.

Article: "Redlining" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Forty Years Ago, Women Had a Hard Time Getting Credit Cards" (2014) by Rose Eveleth.

Article: "Equal Rights Amendment" - "Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex".

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

Article: "List of female governors in the United States" by Wikipedia.

Book: Be Here Now by Ram Dass.

Article: "Trump's budget would hit tens of thousands of federal workers, experts say" by Chris Isidore.

Article: "Ivanka Trump and husband Jared Kushner 'got White House security denials overturned'" by Sky News.

Article: "“Total Bullshit”: Ex-Staffers Say Tillerson’s “Disdain” Is Killing the State Department" by Abigail Tracy.

Article: "Rex Tillerson receives Order of Friendship medal from Putin" by WiscNews.

Article: "The person to ‘weaken’ America: what the Kremlin papers said about Trump" by Luke Harding and Dan Sabbagh.

Article: "From pandering to Putin to abusing allies and ignoring his own advisers, Trump's phone calls alarm US officials" by Carl Bernstein.

Article: "Did Trump Throw Kurds under the Bus for Turkey because of his Istanbul Revenue Stream?" by Juan Cole.

Article: "Trump’s Pledge to Exit Afghanistan Was a Ruse, His Final SecDef Says " by Patrick Tucker.

Article: "How did the UK overcome its delta surge? Experts point to 3 key factors." by Advisory Board.

Article: "A grim warning from Israel: Vaccination blunts, but does not defeat Delta" by Meredith Wadman.

Article: "A major Einstein theory was just proven right, 106 years later" by Brian Koberlein.

Documentary: Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind.

Article: "American Civil War" (1861 - 1865) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Spanish–American War" (1898) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Panic of 1893" by Wikipedia.

Article: "World War I" (1914-1918) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Great Depression (1929 - 1930s) by Wikipedia.

Article: "World War II" (1939 - 1945) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Samuel L. Lewis" (Sufi Sam) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Scout Oath, Scout Law, and Cub Scout Motto" by U.S. Scouting Service.

Article: "Charlie Watts" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Keith Richards: 'I'll celebrate the Stones' 60th anniversary in a wheelchair'" by Mark Savage. "On their early US tours, the Stones even had a clause in their contract stipulating they wouldn't play in segregated venues. If they arrived to find the promoter had reneged on the agreement, they could walk away with a guaranteed fee of $40,000 (£30,100) without playing."

Thursday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 12-3pm ET

I'll be debating Julio Rivera, Editorial Director - Reactionary Times / Contributor - Newsmax, American Thinker & Townhall.com

Plus, I'll be talking with Economist Dr. Richard Wolff, Co-founder, Democracy At Work / Author of numerous books - his latest is The Sickness is the System (now also available as an eBook)

And, Kevin Kamps, Radioactive Waste Specialist - Beyond Nuclear

And, the best of the rest of the news along with your calls right here on...

The Thom Hartmann Program, Occupying The Media 3 hours a day 5 days a week for "we the people"

And don't forget...Democracy is NOT a spectator sport...it begins with you...

Courts Make Removal Of Democratic Voters Legal? (w/ Greg Palast)

Have We Run Out of Empathy Due to Too many Disasters?

Will Vaccine Skeptics Change Their Minds and Save Kids?

America is Facing a Toxic Political Fault Line

Shocking Persecution of Protesters Revealed (w/Dr. Amara Enyia)