Sue's Daily Stack, Monday, 5 February, 2024
Your daily homework - links to everything discussed on today's show
Monday's Daily Stack
Hour One: Do the Rich Dudes Want the Court to Ban Trump or Not?
Article: "Do the Rich Dudes Want the Court to Ban Trump or Not?" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Billionaire donors are defecting from Trump. Here's who to watch." by Max Zahn.
Book: I Paid Hitler by Fritz Thyssen.
Article: "Colorado judge rejects attempt to bar Trump from 2024 ballot under 'insurrection' clause" by Chase Woodruff.
Amicus brief: "Trump v. Anderson: Brief Of Amici Curiae American Historians".
Article: "The Torture Memos, 10 Years Later" by Andrew Cohen.
Article: "These 11 Billionaires Don't Want Donald Trump to Be President" by Emily Stewart.
Article: "14th Amendment section 3, July 9, 1868 "No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability."
Article: "14th Amendment section 3, July 9, 1868 "The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article."
Article: "Bush v. Gore proves Antonin Scalia's "originalism" doctrine is a fraud, so karma dictates that President Obama should nominate Al Gore to Supreme Court" by Legal Schnauzer.
Case: "Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization" (2022) (abortion).
Article: "Barrett's Husband to Stay at Law Firm Despite Her High Court Job" by Roy Strom.
Article: "Chief Justice John Roberts' Wife Made Over $10 Million As Legal Consultant, Report Says" by Nicholas Reimann.
Case: "Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission" (2010).
Article: "Lancet Study Finds 40 Percent of U.S. COVID-19 Deaths Could Have Been Avoided" by Elliot Hannon.
Article: "Trump defends disproved COVID-19 treatment" by Darlene Superville And Amanda Seitz.
Article: "Ivermectin is the signature example of politics trumping health" by Philip Bump.
Are Europeans who support Ukraine getting a brutal lesson about American politics?
Article: "Why The Border Deal Happened: Republicans Held Europe For Ransom" by Alexander Burns.
Article: "Kremlin quiet as Tucker Carlson Russia visit creates Putin interview rumours" by Pjotr Sauer.
Article: "Putin's 'long term investment' in Trump is about to pay off: Financial Times columnist" by Brad Reed.
Video: Speaker Mike Johnson: Trump 'is not calling the shots. I am calling the shots for the House.'.
Did the MAGA convoy discover there is no crisis at the border?
Article: "MAGA "convoy" finally reaches Southern border and are SHOCKED to find... nothing" by CyberMindGrrl.
Video: Texas clown show from a drone.
Article: "Denaturalization, explained: how Trump can strip immigrants of their citizenship" by Dara Lind.
Article: "Frequently Requested Statistics on Immigrants and Immigration in the United States" by Nicole Ward and Jeanne Batalova.
Article: "The Holocaust" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Jair Bolsonaro" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs" by Saul McLeod.
Article: "Strom Thurmond" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Black History Month" by history.com.
Article: "Black American Heritage Flag" by Wikipedia.
Image: "African-American Flag".
Article: "Project 2025" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Tim Scott" by Wikipedia.
Hour Two: Secretive US rightwing group Alec designs law to give big business 'complete immunity for bad acts'
Article: "Secretive US rightwing group Alec designs law to give big business 'complete immunity for bad acts'" by Chris McGreal.
Article: "American Legislative Exchange Council" (ALEC) by SourceWatch.
A quick recap of all the ways our legal system is holding Trump accountable
Article: "Breakdown of Trump's Current Court Cases " by Amee Vanderpool.
Article: "Here's how 2 sentences in the Constitution rose from obscurity to ensnare Donald Trump" by Nicholas Riccardi.
Article: "Jury begins deliberations in manslaughter trial of Michigan school shooter's mother Jennifer Crumbley" by Eric Levenson and Lauren del Valle.
Book: Don't Think of an Elephant!: Know Your Values and Frame the Debate--The Essential Guide for Progressives by George Lakoff.
Article: "Refugees" by UNHCR.
Article: "Tulsa race massacre" (1921) by Wikipedia.
Article: "Manifest destiny" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Leo Strauss" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Augusto Pinochet" (Chile) by Wikipedia.
Article: "Manuel Noriega" (Panama) by Wikipedia.
Article: "Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation" (US Army School of the Americas) by Wikipedia.
Quote: "The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." - H. L. Mencken.
Quote: "Politics is the art of preventing people from minding their own business." - Paul Valéry.
Quote: "Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds." - Henry Adams.
Dick Durban is still taking Blue Slips: WTF!???
Article: "Durbin still can't quit blue slips, so the judiciary will continue to suffer" by Dartagnan.
Article: "Mifepristone: Who is Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk and why was the abortion pill case in his court?" by John Fritze.
Article: "Is the Right to Contraception About To End in America?" by Thom Hartmann.
Case: "Trump v. Anderson".
Amicus brief: "Trump v. Anderson: For Professors Orville Vernon Burton, Allan J. Lichtman, Nell Irwin Painter, James M. Mcpherson, Manisha Sinha, Et Al.".
Article: "The Justices Must Choose: Trump or the Constitution" by Rakim Brooks.
Article: "Jefferson Davis" by Wikipedia.
Article: "United States presidential eligibility legislation" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Beer Hall Putsch" (November 8–9, 1923) by Encyclopaedia Britannica.
Article: "CHIPS Act Passes: House Approves $280 Billion Bill To Boost Microchip Production And Counter China" by Brian Bushard.
Substack: "LookingNWords" by Rohn Kenyatta.
Article: "President Boddie" by Ballotpedia.
Article: "President R19 Boddie" by Amelia Winger.
Article: "Since When Did It Become the Democrat Party?" by Alicia C. Shepard.
Article: "How the Kennedy-Nixon Debate Changed American Politics" by Jordan Zakarin.
Hour Three: California's population is at risk from the raging atmospheric river lashing out...
Article: "Ninety-four percent of California's population is at risk of 'life-threatening' flooding." by Pakalolo.
Site: The Hartmann Report: Daily Audio: Thom Reads His Daily Take.
Article: "Pineapple Express" by Wikipedia.
Article: "After Speedy Start, Appeals Court Slows Down on Trump Immunity Decision" by Alan Feuer and Charlie Savage.
Article: "Nikki Haley" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Libertarian Party" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Foundation for Economic Education (FEE)" by Wikipedia.
Article: "How popular is Joe Biden?" by FiveThirtyEight.
Book: What's the Matter with Kansas? by Thomas Frank.
Connecticut becomes first state to wipe medical debt for residents
Article: "Connecticut becomes first state to wipe medical debt for residents: $1billion in unpaid bills to be forgiven" by Joe Hutchison.
Article: "President Biden Announces American Rescue Plan" by White House.
Article: "Father of July 4th Parade Shooting Suspect Turns Himself in to Begin Jail Sentence" by AP.
Article: "Cenk Uygur" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Cenk Uygur Claims He's Able To Run For President. Experts And The Constitution Say He Cannot Become President" by Elias Atienza.
Article: "Trump explains why he is the only president in 100 years to not have a dog: 'I don't have any time'" by Sarah Harvard.
Article: "Louis DeJoy" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Board of Governors of the United States Postal Service" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Senate negotiators release sweeping border and military aid bill" by Liz Goodwin, Leigh Ann Caldwell.