Sue's Daily Stack, Monday, 17 March, 2025
Your daily homework - links to everything discussed on today's show
Monday’s Daily Stack
Hour One: Schumer's Legacy: Rolling Over for Trump While Democracy Burns
Article: "Schumer's Legacy: Rolling Over for Trump While Democracy Burns" by Thom Hartmann.
Site: "Indivisible".
Article: "Trump's FBI Moves to Criminally Charge Major Climate Groups" by Malcolm Ferguson.
Site: 50501.
Article: "Stop Mike Flynn - A Fight For Press Freedom" by Heidi Cuda.
Article: "The Trump Administration Just Disregarded a Court Order to Stop Deportations" by Hacking, but Legal.
Article: "Trump 'goes full fascist' by declaring CNN and MSNBC criticizing him is 'illegal'" by Anthony Orrico.
Article: "Democratic Party hits new polling low, while its voters want to fight Trump harder" by Bridget Bowman, Ben Kamisar and Alexandra Marquez.
Article: "FBI misused surveillance authorities to investigate Black Lives Matter protesters" by Maggie Miller.
Article: "New York Senators Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand Vote to Prevent a Government Shutdown But Incur Wrath of Democrats Statewide" by Katie Herchenroeder.
Article: "Whitehouse Statement on the Continuing Resolution" by Sheldon Whitehouse.
Article: "Saint Patrick's Day" by Wikipedia.
Video: Bernie On Fire| Schumer Backs Down| Trump Planning War Crimes| ICE's War On Speech.
As Trump-Musk Target Social Security, Seniors Share Stories of Benefit Cutoffs
Article: "As Trump-Musk Target Social Security, Seniors Share Stories of Benefit Cutoffs" by Jessica Corbett.
Article: "Social Security Administration will have 'significant' cuts. What does this mean for you?" by Medora Lee.
Article: "Social Security's Death Warrant Was Just Signed — Are You Ready?" by Thom Hartmann.
Is Trump rolling back the Biden pardons?
Article: "Trump Baselessly Rants on AF1 About Biden Pardons — Then Rages on Truth Social They Are 'VOID' And 'VACANT'" by Tommy Christopher.
Article: "XYZ Affair" by Wikipedia.
Article: "When Benjamin Franklin's Grandson was Jailed for Criticizing President Adams" by Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute.
Article: "Judge to hear arguments over administration's failure to recall deportation flights" by ABC News.
Article: "Donald Trump Ignoring Court Order Is 'Doomsday Scenario'—Legal Analyst" by Sophie Clark.
Event: 5 April: Hands off! day of action.
Article: "Democrats Plan Nationwide Blitz of Town Halls in Republican Districts" by Shane Goldmacher.
Article: "Military Bases in Kentucky" by Operation Military Kids.
Article: "Mitch McConnell" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Family of Donald Trump" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Elon Musk" by Wikipedia.
Law: "Enabling Act of 1933"(Germany).
Article: "No Taxes If You Earn Less Than $150k. Donald Trump's Plan Explained" by Jordan King.
Article: "Why Trump's plan to cut national debt by selling 'gold card' visas for US$5 million each won't work" by Amalendu Misra.
Article: "Trump congratulates Schumer for doing 'right thing' on CR" by Ellen Mitchell.
Article: "Debt ceiling tears at GOP unity after funding bill victory" by David Sivak.
Movie: "Soylent Green".
Article: "Tornado outbreak live updates: 40 dead in cross-country storm system" by ABC News.
Article: "Back-to-back storms bring Portland rain, heavy Cascade snow Friday through weekend" by Rosemarie Stein.
Hour Two: Trump and Rubio ignored a court order. What can courts do if they decide to fight fire with fire?
Article: "If the Marshals Go Rogue, Courts Have Other Ways to Enforce their Orders" by David Noll.
Quote: "John Marshall has made his decision: now let him enforce it!" -- Andrew Jackson.
Article: "Dred Scott Case" by History.com.
Law: "5th Amendment" (double jeopardy, witness against self, due process, taking clause, due compensation).
Law: "6th Amendment" (speedy trial, witnesses, defense).
Law: "7th Amendment" "In Suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved...".
Law: "8th Amendment" "Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.".
Article: "Contempt of court" by LII.
Article: "Homan on deportation flights: 'I don't care what the judges think'" by Lauren Irwin.
Law: "Rule 4.1. Serving Other Process". " Process—other than a summons under Rule 4 or a subpoena under Rule 45 —must be served by a United States marshal or deputy marshal or by a person specially appointed for that purpose."
Article: "The Hidden History of Trump's First Trip to Moscow" by Luke Harding.
Book: The Making of Donald Trump by David Cay Johnston.
Trump had invoked the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to deport five Venezuelans, but order halted by judge
Article: "Judge blocks Trump from using 18th-century wartime act for deportations" by Maanvi Singh and Maya Yang.
Law: "Alien Enemies Act".
Article: "The Alien Enemies Act, Explained" by Katherine Yon Ebright.
When Hegseth says he's against DEI, what he means is to remove any reference to Black people or women from the Pentagon's website and operations
Article: "Black Medal of Honor recipient removed from US Department of Defense website" by Maya Yang.
Video: "U.S. Marine Band forced to cancel concert with students of color after Trump DEI order" by 60 minutes.
Law: "Civil Rights Act of 1964".
Law: "Voting Rights Act of 1965".
Article: "Social Security Administration closes offices, cutting nearly 200 employees" by Bria Overs.
Article: "Elon Musk's Companies Were Under Investigation by Five Inspectors General When the Trump Administration Fired Them and Made Musk the Investigator" by Pam Martens and Russ Martens.
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: "2004 United States presidential election" by Wikipedia.
Article: "The Filibuster Explained" by Tim Lau.
Bill: "H.R.1 - For the People Act of 2019" by Rep. Sarbanes, John P. [D-MD-3].
Bill: "John Lewis Voting Rights Act".
Law: "Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974".
Quote: "The Senate is not a majoritarian body" - Senator Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), May 10, 2005.
Law: "H.R.1968 - Full-Year Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2025".
Article: "The Big Chicken" by marietta.com.
Article: "WWPD? (What would Putin Do?)" by 3825-87867.
Site: The Big List of Protests.
Article: "Elizabeth Warren" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Amy Klobuchar" by Wikipedia.
Video: 'I knew I'd get criticized': Schumer on why he's helping Republicans avoid shutdown.
Hour Three: Giving Putin a big wet kiss, Trump just killed off Radio Free Europe and Radio liberty, two thorns in Putin's side...
Post: "Trump has shut down Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, ending 80 years of independent journalism. These media outlets fought censorship, exposed authoritarian regimes, and provided a free press where none existed. This is a major loss for democracy and global reporting." by Euromaidan Press.
Trump is helping Putin get away with genocide and stealing 100,000 children to sell into slavery
Article: "Trump Is Helping Russia Get Away With Genocide" by Olga Lautman.
Article: "'Stranded' NASA astronauts are finally coming home: Here's when they'll be back on Earth" by Ben Turner.
Video: DOJ pardon attorney says she was fired after refusing to restore Mel Gibson's gun rights.
Article: "Trump signs order declaring only president and AG can interpret US law for executive branch" by Sean Beeghly.
Article: "'Not above the law': Fist-pounding Dem explodes and demands to know 'where's Elon Musk?'" by David Badash.
Article: "White House ignores judicial deportation blocks" by Peter Weber.
Geeky Science: Give blood and extend your life...
Article: "Beneficial genetic changes observed in regular blood donors" by The Francis Crick Institute.
Article: "Cato Institute" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Trump signs order to dismantle 7 federal agencies focused on media, libraries, homelessness " by Alex Gangitano.
Article: "US To Pay $6,000,000 Million To El Salvador To House Deported Venezuelan Migrants" by Shivani.
Article: "Chris Murphy" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Tammy Duckworth" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Trump's Imperial Fantasy: He Wants to Be Polk, McKinley, and Putin—All at Once" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "URGENT WARNING: Trump is Planning to Invade Canada & Greenland" by Malcolm Nance.
Article: "Tesla's China sales hit record high in 2024, bucking global decline" by Reuters.