Sue's Daily Stack, Tuesday, 26 March, 2024
Your daily homework - links to everything discussed on today's show
Tuesday's Daily Stack
Hour One: The role of Republicans in trying to outlaw abortion drug mifepristone
Article: "More Suspicious Republican Ties to Today's Mifepristone Case" by Amee Vanderpool.
Law: "Comstock laws" (1873).
Article: "Anthony Comstock" by Wikipedia.
Case: "Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization" (2022) (abortion, overturned Roe v. Wade).
Case: "Roe v. Wade" (1973) (abortion legal).
Article: "James C. Ho" by Wikipedia.
Article: "The next Clarence Thomas? Abortion pill case spotlights rightwing judge and his wife's shadowy connections" by Melissa Segura.
Trump has crossed another line with his Nazi talk...
Article: ""It's Official: With 'Vermin', Trump Is Now Using Straight-up Nazi Talk"" by annieli.
Article: "Trump Crosses the Line, Embraces Nazi Ideology" by Alan Singer.
Article: "Great Replacement" by Wikipedia.
Article: "'Jews will not replace us': Why white supremacists go after Jews" by Yair Rosenberg.
Article: "Charlottesville car attack" by Wikipedia.
How big a factor is the GOP stance on abortion & IVF going to be this fall? We're about to find out:
Article: "Morning Digest: Alabama special election is first major test after IVF ruling" by Daily Kos Elections.
Book: The Man Who Hated Women by Amy Sohn.
Law: "18 U.S. Code § 1461 - Mailing obscene or crime-inciting matter " (An Act for the Suppression of Trade in, and Circulation of, obscene Literature and Articles of immoral Use).
Law: "18 U.S. Code § 1462 - Importation or transportation of obscene matters ".
Article: "Hyde-Smith, Lankford Lead Letters To Pharmacies On Abortion Drug Distribution" by Cindy Hyde-Smith.
Letter: "to CVS, May 5, 2023" by Cindy Hyde-Smith et al.
Law: "Youngs Rubber Corp. v. C.I. Lee & Co".
Tennessee Republicans vote affirmatively to force 10-12 year old girls to carry rape-caused pregnancies to term
Article: "Abortion, Every Day (2.21.24): Tennessee GOP says child rape victims must carry pregnancies to term" by Jessica Valenti.
Bill: "Tennessee House Bill 2603". As introduced, exempts from the offense of criminal abortion an abortion that is performed or attempted by a licensed physician in a licensed hospital or ambulatory surgical treatment center on a patient who is under 13 years of age; requires the physician to confirm the patient's date of birth prior to performing or attempting to perform the abortion.
How Billionaire's Privilege is Taking Down Our Republic
Article: "How Billionaire's Privilege is Taking Down Our Republic" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Inside Trump Treasury nominee's past life as 'foreclosure king' of California" by Sam Levin.
Article: ""A republic if you can keep it": Elizabeth Willing Powel, Benjamin Franklin, and the James McHenry Journal" by Julie Miller.
Article: "John Adams--'Government of Laws, Not Men'" by Robert Tierney.
Article: "Massachusetts Constitution : Article XXX" by The General Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Article: "Mnuchin secrecy on bailout sparks rift with Congress" by Zachary Warmbrodt.
Tweet: "Yet again, @realDonaldTrump gets special treatment with his own private system of justice. The NY Appeals Court has decided to give Trump more time to pay less money by reducing his bond from $454M to $175 and giving him 10 days to get the money. This makes absolutely no sense..." by Michael Steele.
Tweet: "The NY appellate court's unexplained reduction from $454M to $175M in the bond Trump must post in 10 days to secure the judgment pending appeal is a travesty of justice. Let's hope public disgust with this preferential treatment will come back to bite Trump politically." by Laurence Tribe.
Tweet: "BREAKING: NY's justice system. Appellate judges hand Trump a gift, cut bond down to $175 million, give him 10 extra days. Imagine a basketball team down by 40 points, and with 1:00 left in the game, refs give the losing team 5 more minutes — and lower the hoop from 10ft to 6ft" by Tristan Snell.
Book: "The Hidden History of the Supreme Court and the Betrayal of America" by Thom Hartmann.
Book: The Major Political Writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The Two "Discourses" and the "Social Contract" by Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
Article: "The rise of the work drug" by Emily Stewart.
Article: "Michael Cohen Pleads Guilty In Manhattan Federal Court To Eight Counts, Including Criminal Tax Evasion And Campaign Finance Violations" by U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of New York.
Article: "Kalief Browder, 1993–2015" by Jennifer Gonnerman.
Article: "Manhattan district attorney gets Bragg-ing rights" by Jennifer Rubin.
Hour Two: Trump's worst nightmare is about the begin in a few weeks - Trump's first felony trial....
Article: "Trump's New York hush money case is set for trial April 15" by Michael R. Sisak, Jake Offenhartz, Eric Tucker.
Article: "Donald Trump's 'Worst Nightmare' Just Came True: Mary Trump" by Ewan Palmer.
Article: "Georgia judge sets hearing to consider dismissing Trump case on free speech grounds" by David Edwards.
Article: "Live Updates: Search underway after major bridge collapse in Baltimore " by AP.
Article: "Donald Trump/Billy Bush leaked video: Full transcript - read the full sexist exchange here" by Melanie Ehrenkranz.
Article: "Judge scolds Trump lawyer after poorly-supported — and unsuccessful — bid to delay hush-money trial" by Laura Italiano,Jacob Shamsian.
Article: "GRASPING: Free speech argument is the latest Georgia RICO defense for Trump " by Stephanie Bazzle.
Article: "Catch Up on Where the Trump Investigations Stand" by Ben Protess, Alan Feuer and Danny Hakim.
Article: "Keeping Track of the Trump Criminal Cases" by NYT.
Article: "Baltimore bridge collapse latest: Satellite images reveal scale of bridge damage; ship issued mayday call before crash" by Sky News.
Article: "Rape-Related Pregnancies in the 14 US States With Total Abortion Bans" by Samuel L. Dickman, Kari White, David U. Himmelstein, et al.
Article: "Sturmabteilung" (Brownshirts).
Article: "The Sturmabteilung: Hitler's Unofficial Army Of Thugs" (brownshirts) by Gina Dimuro.
Do you recall either the Democratic or Republican Party operating like this? No, of course not. This is how authoritarians run parties and countries: they broke no opposition.
Article: "Trump targets Florida Republican who didn't endorse him fast enough" by Jeff Singer.
Article: "Silent majority" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Nixon's Southern strategy" by James Boyd.
Article: "Dave Calhoun was hired to fix Boeing. Instead, 'it's become an embarrassment'" by Allison Morrow.
Article: "Boeing chief executive Dave Calhoun to leave as firm faces safety crisis" by Theo Leggett.
Article: "'I want to get off the plane.' The passengers refusing to fly on Boeing's 737 Max" by Julia Buckley.
Article: "Egypt intelligence official says Israel ignored repeated warnings of 'something big'" by Agencies.
Article: "The Long Wait for Help as Massacres Unfolded in Israel" by Lauren Leatherby, Emma Bubola, Arijeta Lajka, Amy Schoenfeld Walker, Molly Cook Escobar and Pablo Robles.
Articles: "Nick Paton Walsh".
Articles: "Frederik Pleitgen".
Article: "'A Really Close Call For Us': CNN Crew Nearly Hit By Russian Missile In Ukraine" by Marita Vlachou.
Article: "Russia's new guided bomb inflicts devastation and heavy casualties on the Ukrainian front lines" by Tim Lister and Frederik Pleitgen.
Article: "Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, March 10, 2024" by ISW.
Article: "Ukraine Conflict Updates" by ISW.
Article: "US has urged Ukraine to halt strikes on Russian energy infrastructure, FT reports" by Reuters.
Article: "Kevin O'Leary" by Wikipedia.
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: "Supreme Court rules states cannot remove Trump from ballot for insurrection" by Amy Howe.
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: "America Must Never Forget what Trump & the GOP Did On April 7th, 2020" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Black Americans Face Alarming Rates of Coronavirus Infection in Some States" by John Eligon, Audra D. S. Burch, Dionne Searcey and Richard A. Oppel Jr.
Hour Three: Right wingers on the fifth circuit are getting ready to gut Obamacare
Article: "This New Lawsuit Could Rescind Your Health Care Benefits" by Merrill Goozner.
Site: U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF).
Article: "Bannon vows a daily fight for 'deconstruction of the administrative state'" by Philip Rucker and Robert Costa.
Article: "Obamacare Is in Grave Danger, Again" by Paul Krugman.
Article: "A UN envoy says there are 'reasonable grounds' to believe Hamas committed sexual violence on Oct. 7" by Edith M. Lederer.
Article: "Boeing job cuts start to hit nearly 13,000 workers" by BBC.
Article: "Workers on Corporate Boards? Germany's Had Them for Decades" by Susan R. Holmberg.
Bolsonaro hiding in Hungarian Embassy? This is how Brazil deals with treason and insurrection
Article: "Brazil summons Hungarian envoy to explain why Bolsonaro hid in embassy" by Tom Phillips.
Article: "Amid scrutiny over 737 Max, Boeing to replace 900 inspectors. And union is not happy" by Chris Woodyard.
Article: "Robert Mercer" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Rebekah Mercer" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Once-lukewarm billionaires set to come back around to Trump at fundraiser hosted by John Paulson" by Lydia Moynihan.
Article: "The Russian Spy Who Infiltrated the NRA Duped a Ton of Conservatives" by Luke Darby.
Get off my neck....
- Debbie Hines, Trial lawyer, legal/political commentator, former prosecutor & author of the brand new book just out today: "Get Off My Neck: Black Lives, White Justice, and a Former Prosecutor's Quest for Reform" @iamdebbiehines
Article: "Book Talk: Get Off My Neck" by Berkeley Criminal Law & Justice Center.
Article: "Jim Crow laws" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Death of Freddie Gray" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Virginia Becomes First Southern State to Abolish the Death Penalty" by Hailey Fuchs.
Article: "Mike Schmidt (lawyer)" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Baltimore's No-Prosecution Policy for Low-Level Drug Possession and Prostitution Finds Almost No Rearrests for Serious Offenses" by Johns Hopkins.
Article: "Boeing 737 MAX" by Wikipedia.
Article: "The Combat History of the Condom" by Paul Richard Huard.
Article: "The Army's desperate World War I fight for privates' parts" by Logan Nye.
Event: Wed 27 March: 8pm ET: PDA 'Saving/Expanding Social Security with Alex Lawson on Disabilities' Team call.