Public outrage is building: the Court's approval rating is now around 40% - Congress needs to act, before an entire branch of government sinks into an irredeemable Trump-fueled muck of corruption.

So now, as expected after decades of taking big bucks for her rightwing work on behalf of America's oligarchs, we learn that the wife of Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas, Ginny Thomas, was in Trump's January 6th "rally" up to her eyeballs.

Let's just say it right out loud: the US Supreme Court is corrupt. And Americans know it.

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

Tuesday's Daily Stack

Article: "Congress Should Be Regulating the Corrupt Supreme Court? Where Are They?" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "House ethics bill would require Supreme Court to adopt code of conduct" by Devin Dwyer.

Article: "John Locke: People Must Not Be Judges in Their Own Cases" by Confessions of a Supply-Side Liberal.

Article: "Constitution of the United States".

Article: "Justices Roberts and Breyer, Alito Are Voting with "Friends of the Court" Companies Whose Shares They Own 2/3 of the Time" by Fix the Court.

Article: "The Federalist Number 10" by James Madison.

Article: "White House Supreme Court Commission Backs Modest Changes (3)" by Kimberly Strawbridge Robinson.

Article: "Approval of U.S. Supreme Court Down to 40%, a New Low" by Jeffrey M. Jones.

Article: "We Need a Code of Conduct for the Supreme Court" by Louise M. Slaughter.

Article: " Baseball's First Commissioner: The Hiring of Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis" by Daniel R. Levitt.

Article: "Remember When Neil Gorsuch's Mother Tried to Dismantle the EPA?" by Lisa Hymas.

Article: "May 14, 1969: The Spectacular Fall of Abe Fortas" by Allen Pusey.

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

Article: "Supreme Court hints at the damage it could do with a Republican Senate majority after November" by Joan McCarter.

Article: "Nothing to see here, says pro-Trump election lie advocate Ginni Thomas" by Brandi Buchman.

Article: "The Supreme Court's Conservatives May Be Set To Kneecap Federal Regulations" by Paul Blumenthal.

Law: "28 U.S. Code § 331 - Judicial Conference of the United States".

Article: "The Long Crusade of Clarence and Ginni Thomas" by Danny Hakim and Jo Becker.

Article: "2011 Year-End Report on the Federal Judiciary" by SCOTUS.

Article: "Zelensky's appeal to Canada: Imagine if Toronto were Kyiv" by Ian Austen and Dan Bilefsky.

Article: "Ukraine war: European leaders risk train ride to meet Zelensky" by BBC.

Article: "Ukrainian President Zelensky will give virtual address to members of Congress" by Clare Foran.

Article: "Virginia Senate rejects former Trump official from serving in Youngkin's Cabinet" by Sarah Rankin.

Article: "Andrew R. Wheeler" by Wikipedia.

Article: "3-14-22 Nicole Sandler Show – Big Brother is Watching with Thom Hartmann" by Nicole Sandler.

Article: "Stephen Johnson Field" by Wikipedia.

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

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

Article: "From Georgia in 2008 to Crimea in 2014, Russia's prior invasions still hold relevance today" by I24News.

Article: "Putin's Case for War, Annotated" by Max Fisher.

Article: "Chinese Tech Stocks Are Having A Historically Terrible Week" by Sissi Cao.

Article: "Moldova" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Hungary" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Poland" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Baltic states" (Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Putin purges Russian intelligence as military elite suffer devastating losses" by Andrew Kerr.

Article: "Russian member of parliament demands Putin take Alaska while state TV host suggests nuclear strikes: report" by Sarah K. Burris.

Article: "Marina Ovsyannikova: Russian journalist tells of 14-hour interrogation" by BBC.

Article: "Russian member of parliament demands Putin take Alaska while state TV host suggests nuclear strikes: report" by Sarah K. Burris.

Tweet: ".@Thom_Hartmann if Putin promised to keep Sarah Palin, an Alaskan deal might not be a bad idea. IJS" by Marcia Martin.

Article: "POLL: Two-Thirds of All Americans Want Cameras in the Supreme Court" by Ken Meyer.

Article: "Why the Supreme Court needs an ethics code" by Nicholas Rostow.

Article: "Missouri lawmaker says punishment for giving abortions not 'strict enough,' suggests death penalty" by Aysha Qamar.

Book: RADIO ACTIVE: A Memoir of Advocacy in Action, on the Air and in the Streets by Joe Madison with Dave Canton.

Article: "Constitution of the United States", article 3 section 1. "... The Judges, both of the supreme and inferior Courts, shall hold their Offices during good Behaviour..."

Article: "Dmitry Medvedev" by Wikipedia.

Book: The Hidden History of Big Brother in America: How the Death of Privacy and the Rise of Surveillance Threaten Us and Our Democracy by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Facebook–Cambridge Analytica data scandal" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Trump–Ukraine scandal" by Wikipedia.

Article: "What Have Liberals and Democrats Ever Done For Us?" by Delaware Dem.

Article: "Meet Marina Gross, the interpreter who was the only other American in the room for Trump and Putin's 1-on-1 meeting in Helsinki" by John Haltiwanger.

Video: What a Putin critic who survived two poisonings says about him.

Article: "Trump's Ukraine extortion campaign didn't begin or end with 'I would like you to do us a favor'" by Laura Clawson.

Article: "'TV terrorist' Donald Trump blasted for telling followers they 'must lay down their very lives' to defend against CRT" by David Badash.

Article: "What stochastic terrorism is and why the US may see more of it" by Mihai Andrei.

Article: "Fiona Hill Testifies It's A 'Fictional Narrative' That Russia Didn't Attack Democracy" by Nina Golgowski.

Article: "White House confirms it tied Ukraine aid to help in pursuing conspiracy theory on DNC hack" by David Knowles.

Article: "The Trump-Ukraine Impeachment Inquiry Report" by House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.

Article: "Trump-Ukraine impeachment scandal: timeline of key events" by Guardian.

Article: "Trump holds up Ukraine military aid meant to confront Russia" by Caitlin Emma, Connor O'Brien.

Article: "GOP's violent rhetoric keeps getting worse — and almost nobody is paying attention" by Chauncey DeVega.

Article: "Revealed: New GOP Plan to Raise Taxes on Working People & End Social Security & Medicare" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Scott at CPAC: 'Fight to rescue America from socialism'" by Andrea Torres.

Quote: "Accuse the other side of that which you are guilty" - attributed to Joseph Goebbels.

Article: "Psychological projection" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Biden to head to Brussels next week for show of unity with NATO leaders" by ABC News.

Article: "Marina Ovsyannikova: Russian journalist fined after TV protest" by BBC.

Article: "Russian oligarch charged in U.S. campaign finance scheme" by Devlin Barrett.

Book: Foundations of Geopolitics: The Geopolitical Future of Russia: English Translation by Alexander Dugin.

Article: "Aleksandr Dugin: The Russian Mystic Behind America's Weird Far-Right" by James Carli.

Article: "Chernobyl: Why radiation levels spiked at nuclear plant" by Victoria Gill.

Article: "IAEA says power restored at Ukraine's Chernobyl".

Article: "Baltics and Nordic countries reinforce military exercises in the face of the threat from Russia" by William Ximenis.

Book: "The Fourth Turning" by William Strauss, Neil Howe.

Quote: "When the last man who remembers the horrors of the last great war dies, the next great war becomes inevitable." - attributed to Arnold Toynbee.

Article: "Sarah Bloom Raskin's Fed nomination threatened by Joe Manchin's obsession with fossil fuels" by April Siese .

Article: "3 journalists, including Fox News cameraperson, killed in Ukraine" by Alexandra Svokos and Emily Shapiro.

Article: "Psaki mocks Russia for sanctioning President Biden's father, 'may he rest in peace'" by Nathan Place.

Article: "Sarah Bloom Raskin withdraws Fed nomination, source says" by Kristin Brown.

Article: "Manchin 'very reluctant' on electric cars in ominous sign for Biden's climate fight" by Oliver Milman.

Book: On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder.

Article: "Domino theory" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Russia Planning Moldova Invasion? Putin's Sidekick May Have Accidentally Leaked Secret Plans" by Suman Varandani.

Article: "FBI: International" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Transnistria" (Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic) by Wikipedia.

Article: "'FBI: International' Episode 11 Review: Transnistria, trafficking and possible trauma" by Arvind Rao.

Case: "Planned Parenthood v. Casey", 1992.

Law: "Sherman Antitrust Act", 1890.

Law: "Telecommunications Act of 1996" by Wikipedia.

Article: "National Archives retrieved 15 boxes of Trump White House documents from Mar-a-Lago" by Kevin Breuninger.

Article: "Russian Hackers Broke Into Federal Agencies, U.S. Officials Suspect" by David E. Sanger.

Article: "Trump Fires Christopher Krebs, Official Who Disputed Election Fraud Claims" by David E. Sanger and Nicole Perlroth.

Article: "Pentagon fails audit yet again, could pass around 2027, comptroller says" by Mike Stone.

Article: "DOD Audit" by DOD.

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

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