Big money is the cancer that has been eating away American politics ever since the Supreme Court blew up hundreds of good government laws designed to protect our democracy from predators like Trump.

Donald Trump wasn't joking back in 2000 when he first seriously considered running for president and told us, “It's very possible that I could be the first presidential candidate to run and make money on it.”

While president, he raked in an estimated $1.6 billion, much of it (particularly during the pandemic) money from pushing government contracts and the like to his own properties and companies.

During that time he was also doing the bidding of Vladimir Putin in the hopes of one day setting up a Trump Tower in Moscow.

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

Thursday's Daily Stack

Article: "Supreme Court limits EPA's authority to regulate power plants' greenhouse gas emissions" by Melissa Quinn, Li Cohen.

Case: "Chevron U.S.A. v. Natural Resources Defense Council".

Article: "Chevron Deference" (1984) by Jonathan Kim.

Article: "The Supreme Court May Be Preparing to Light our Planet on Fire" (updated today as "The Supreme Court has Lit Our Planet on Fire") by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Toyota Mirai" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Americans for Prosperity" by Wikipedia.

Article: "$2.38 per gallon gas at Wyoming gas station Thursday" by WOOD-TV.

Site: True Cost of Washington Tour.

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

Article: "Treason Is the Most Profitable Business Trump Ever Engaged In" by Thom Hartmann.

Book: "The Hidden History of Neoliberalism: How Reaganism Gutted America and How to Restore Its Greatness" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: “Trump once figured he'd be the first person to make money running for president. He didn't.“ by Philip Bump.

Article: "Five years ago, Trump secretly celebrated firing FBI director and gave Russians classified intel inside the Oval Office" by David Badash.

Article: "Trump Trashes Free Press And U.S. Intelligence In Poland" by Philip Rotner.

Article: "Trump administration eliminates top cyber post" by Olivia Beavers.

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

Article: "Trump tried to pull the United States out of NATO" by Mark Sumner.

Article: "Senate Ethics Committee dismisses insider trading complaint against Loeffler" by Morgan Phillips.

Case: "Buckley v. Valeo", 1976.

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

Article: "The beginning of the end of regulation" by Robert Reich.

Law: "The National Labor Relations Act (The Wagner Act)", 1935.

Article: "Lochner era" by Wikipedia.

Quote: "When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty" - attributed to Thomas Jefferson.

Article: "Declaration of Independence". "...when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government..."

Article: "Maxine Waters on SCOTUS abortion ruling: ‘The hell with the Supreme Court'" by Caroline Vakil.

Podcast: "Emergency Podcast System: Millions Must Respond. Abort. The. Court." by Michael Moore.

Article: "JCAHO" by Patient Safety.

Article: "Employment Guidance for the District of Columbia National Guard" by Christopher C Miller, 4 January 2021.

Article: "Miranda warning" (1966) by Wikipedia.

Article: "The Supreme Court Just Said That Evidence of Innocence Is Not Enough" by Michael A. Cohen.

Case: "Miranda v. Arizona".

Article: "No, Border Patrol agents can't enter a home without a warrant. SCOTUS case dealt with suing agents " by Grace Abels.

Law: "6th Amendment" (speedy trial, witnesses, defense).

Article: "Biden: U.S. to announce $800 million more weapons aid to Ukraine" by Reuters.

Article: "Turkey lifts its objections to Sweden, Finland joining NATO" by AP.

Article: "GOP Sen. Ron Johnson Concedes Trump Lost His State: ‘51,000 Republican Voters Didn't Vote For Him'" by Andrew Solender.

Article: "SCOTUS Has Dissolved Into A Blur Of BS, Qanon & Fundamentalist Religion" by Thom Hartmann.

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

Article: "The Supreme Court Has Been Expanded Many Times Before. Here Are Four Ways To Do It Today." by margaret.

Article: "Liz Cheney receives standing ovation at Reagan Library after blasting GOP leaders" by Bob Brigham.

Article: "Federalist Party" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Alien and Sedition Acts of the United States". "old, querulous, Bald, blind, crippled, Toothless Adams."

Article: "Whig Party (United States)" by Wikipedia.

Article: "John Adams" by Wikipedia.

Article: "States have 60 days to craft a deal on the Colorado River system" by Alex Hager & Luke Runyon.

Site: End The Bribe System.

Documentary: Where to Invade Next - Michael Moore.

Article: "Tucker Carlson Previews ‘Amazing Interview' with Bolsonaro, Who ‘Bears No Resemblance' to How He's Portrayed in U.S. Media" by Michael Luciano.

Article: "June 23-27 2008 "live" from Denmark" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Thom Hartmann from Sweden with Rick Falkvinge" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Thom Hartmann from Iceland - Where Banksters robbed the people blind" by Thom Hartmann.

Video: Former White House Staffer Testifies Trump Threw Plates, Flipped Tablecloths in Frustration.

Article: "Fox News Anchor Martha MacCallum Defends Trump Smashing Lunch Against the Wall: ‘Not Wholly Out of Character'" by Matt Wilstein.

Law: "14th Amendment, July 9, 1868 (citizenship, representatives, public debt, Equal Protection Clause).

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

Article: "Mitch McConnell Flatly Rejects Any Obama Pick to Supreme Court" by Phil Helsel.

Article: "Trump Will Nominate Amy Coney Barrett Before Ruth Bader Ginsburg Is Buried" by Mark Joseph Stern.

Article: "Debunking the Myth: Obama's Two-Year Supermajority" by Jennifer M. Granholm.

Law: "The National Environmental Policy Act of 1969" (NEPA) by Office of NEPA Policy and Compliance.

Article: "The Origins of EPA" by EPA.

Article: "Rome Journal; Official Favors: Oil That Makes Italy Go Round" by Alessandra Stanley.

Law: "Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act", 1970 (RICO).

Law: "5th Amendment" (double jeopardy, witness against self, due process, taking clause, due compensation).

Article: "A 'Chilling' Look At The Threats Against Sonia Sotomayor And Other Supreme Court Justices" by Kathryn Rubino.

Article: "Justice Sonia Sotomayor was targeted by gunman, federal judge tells '60 Minutes'" by Ariane de Vogue.

Article: "Someone Tried to Kill Brett Kavanaugh. Welcome to the New Normal" by Douglas Blair.

Article: "Man with gun is arrested near Brett Kavanaugh's home, officials say" by Ellie Silverman, Dan Morse, Katie Mettler and Devlin Barrett.

Article: "New 911 tapes show how man accused in Kavanaugh murder plot abandoned plan" by Dan Morse.

Article: "Senators quickly pass bill to expand security for families of Supreme Court justices" by Ali Zaslav, Jessica Dean and Ted Barrett.

Article: "An increasingly fortified federal city" by Marissa J. Lang.

Quote: "the greatest good we can do our country is to heal it's party divisions" - Thomas Jefferson.

Article: "Constitution of the United States" Article 1 section 8 (Powers of Congress). "...To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years..."

Tweet: "UPDATE: Bishop William J. Barber, II has been arrested and is still being processed after today's non-violent action." by Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II.

Article: "William Barber II" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Limbaugh: ‘When Women Got The Right To Vote Is When It All Went Down Hill'" by Annie-Rose Strasser.

Article: "Pelosi receives Communion in the Vatican, despite her home archbishop refusing it" by AP.

Article: "Sedition" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Treason" by Wikipedia.

Law: "5 U.S. Code § 3331 - Oath of office". "... I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic ..." .

Article: "'Very strange and somewhat alarming': White House, Justice aides offer insider accounts of Jan. 6 Capitol attack" (Cassidy Hutchinson describes Mark Meadows using encrypted app) by Bart Jansen.

Article: "AP fact check rates GOP claim Pelosi blocked National Guard on Jan. 6 ‘false' " by Dominick Mastrangelo.

Case: "Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization" (2022).

Law: "9th Amendment". "The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people."

Article: "The Federalist Papers : No. 84" by Alexander Hamilton.

Case: "Griswold v Connecticut" (1965) (contraception for married couples).

Case: "Lawrence v Texas" (2003) (made same-sex sexual activity legal).

Case: "Obergefell v Hodges" (2015) (same sex marriage).

Case: "Loving v Virginia".

Article: "Andrew Jackson shuts down Second Bank of the U.S." by History.com.

Article: "American Indian Removal Policy and the Trail of Tears" by Robert McNamara.

Article: "Montgomery bus boycott" by Wikipedia.

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

Quote: "I have sworn upon the altar of god, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." - Thomas Jefferson .

Bible: "No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money." - Matthew 6:24.

Article: "Nonoxynol-9" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Kansas City area health system stops providing Plan B in Missouri because of abortion ban" by Jonathan Shorman.

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: "Study of Disputed Florida Ballots Finds Justices Did Not Cast the Deciding Vote" by Ford Fessenden and John M. Broder, November 12, 2001.

Article: "Supreme Court to take on controversial election-law case " by Nina Totenberg.

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