Sue's Daily Stack, Wednesday, 13 December, 2023
Your daily homework - links to everything discussed on today's show
Wednesday's Daily Stack
Hour One: The Secret GOP Plot to Change our Constitution Slithers Forward
Article: "The Secret GOP Plot to Change our Constitution Slithers Forward" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Budget hawks hatch plan to force constitutional convention" by Michael Biesecker.
Article: "Constitutional Amendment Process" by Office of the Federal Register.
Site: Public Citizen.
Article: "Stopping a Dangerous Article V Convention" by Common Cause.
Article: "What Harm Did ALEC Plot at Its 2nd Big 2023 Summit?" by David Armiak.
Article: "ALEC Policy Summit Features Push to Legally Force a Constitutional Convention" by David Armiak.
Site: Move to Amend.
Article: "Alarms raised over Mike Johnson 'catapulting this country into constitutional crisis'" by Travis Gettys.
Law: "Article Five of the United States Constitution" by Wikipedia.
Law: "Article 1: Section 3 - Senate: Clause 7: Impeachment Judgments". "Judgment in Cases of Impeachment shall not extend further than to removal from Office, and disqualification to hold and enjoy any Office of honor, Trust or Profit under the United States: but the Party convicted shall nevertheless be liable and subject to Indictment, Trial, Judgment and Punishment, according to Law."
Article: "It's called the Nixon rule, and the Supreme Court should uphold it without delay" by Lucian K. Truscott IV.
While Zelensky was away - Russia had a night of hell in Kyiv plus the Heritage Foundation was meeting with GOPers and dictator Orban's crew about ending support for Ukraine
Article: "Heritage Foundation hosts meeting of GOPers and Orbán associates on ending US support for Ukraine" by Charles Jay.
Article: "Republicans to meet allies of Hungary's Viktor Orbán on ending Ukraine aid" by Flora Garamvolgyi, David Smith.
Article: "Debris from Russian missile attack injures more than 50 in Kyiv" by Luke Harding in Pavlohrad, Miranda Bryant.
Article: "Republican senator says Ukraine may have to cede land to Russia to end war" by Sam Levine.
Article: "Kyiv endures 'night of hell' as Russia launches huge missile blitz hitting hospital & injuring 53 while Zelensky in US" by Aliki KraterouWill Stewart.
Crazy Alert! Trump wants to sell you the suit off his back.....well maybe or maybe not...read the fine print... Plus, Trump's troll army is on the attack
Article: "Donald Trump wants to sell you the suit off his back (and some worthless 'trading' cards)" by Mark Sumner.
Article: "Inside the Troll Army Waging Trump's Online Campaign" by Inside the Troll Army Waging Trump's Online Campaign.
Article: "Did New York Reprimand Trump Family for 'Stealing from a Children's Cancer Charity'?" by Dan MacGuill.
Site: "Convention of States".
Case: "Roe v Wade".
Article: "Equal Rights Amendment" by Britannica.
Article: "Argentinian presidential elections: Who is Javier Miliei and what is happening to Argentina's economy?" by Jane Bradley.
Article: "Argentina's new government devalues peso by more than 50%" by Mark Sweney.
Article: "There's a 50-50 chance states will call for a constitutional convention within 5 years: conservative legal scholar" by Grace Panetta and Brent D. Griffiths.
Case: "Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission" (2010).
Quote: "No One in This World... Has Ever Lost Money by Underestimating the Intelligence of the Great Masses of the Plain People" - H. L. Mencken.
Hour Two: Netanyahu is pulling a "George Bush" after Biden warned him. How's that going to work out?
Article: "Biden says Netanyahu 'has to change,' accuses Israel of 'indiscriminate bombing'" by Lauren Egan.
Article: "Biden takes a tougher stance on Israel's 'indiscriminate bombing' of Gaza" by Colleen Long, Aamer Madhani.
Article: "Israel-Gaza war live: White House walks back Biden remarks that Israel was losing international support over Gaza bombing" by Richard Luscombe; Martin Belam, Adam Fulton.
Article: "Bush rejects Taliban offer to hand Bin Laden over" by Guardian.
Article: "Israel to continue Gaza war with or without international support, FM says" by David Gritten & Hugo Bachega.
Article: "Munich massacre" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Israel-Gaza war in maps and charts: Live tracker" by AJLabs.
Article: "Little-Used U.S. Powers Employed to Aid Ukraine" by Jeff Abramson.
Article: "Lend-Lease" by Wikipedia.
Hunter Biden summed up perfectly what the GOP is doing. They are trying to dehumanize him in order to hurt his dad - Joe Biden
Article: "'They have no shame': Hunter Biden blasts House GOPers as he arrives for D.C. face-off" by Kathleen Culliton.
Abortion: Kentucky and Texas men have made it clear - Cruelty is the goal & the bodies of women belong to them
Article: "Kentucky woman seeking court approval for abortion learned her embryo no longer has cardiac activity" by AP.
Article: "Supreme Court Will Hear Challenge to Abortion Pill Access" by Abbie VanSickle.
Article: "Supreme Court takes up cases over eased access to medication abortion drug" by Chris Geidner.
Article: "Emily Quinn: Male Or Female Is The Wrong Question—How Can We Rethink Biological Sex?" by Manoush Zomorodi, Rachel Faulkner White, Sanaz Meshkinpour.
Article: "Intersex" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Member states of NATO" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Member state of the European Union" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Potential enlargement of the European Union" by Wikipedia.
Article: "A wild gerrymander makes Hungary's Fidesz party hard to dislodge" by Economist.
Article: "Hungary's Latest Assault on the Judiciary" by Lydia Gall.
Article: "Reporters Without Borders lists Viktor Orbán as 'press freedom predator'" by Merlin Sugue.
Article: "German Bundeswehr Inspector General warns of potential defensive war against Russia" by The New Voice of Ukraine.
Article: "Federalist No. 85" by Alexander Hamilton. "I dread the more the consequences of new attempts, because I KNOW that POWERFUL INDIVIDUALS, in this and in other states, are enemies to a general national government, in every possible shape."
Article: "Leaked document fuels concern Israel plans to push Palestinians from Gaza into Egypt" by CBC News.
Article: "Behind Israel's 'end game' for Gaza: Theft of offshore gas reserve" by Betsey Piette.
Article: "Bombing of Dresden" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Cold War" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Nayirah (incubators testimony)" by Wikipedia.
Quote: "As a matter of fact, in interviews in 1999 with respected journalist, and long time Bush family friend, David Herskowitz, then Governor George Bush stated: 'One of the keys to being seen as a great leader is to be seen as a commander-in-chief. My father had all this political capital built up when he drove the Iraqis out of Kuwait and he wasted it. If I have a chance to invade... if I had that much capital, I'm not going to waste it. I'm going to get everything passed that I want to get passed and I'm going to have a successful presidency." - My Testimony for the Downing Street Memo Hearings" by Cindy Sheehan, June 16 2005.
Article: "United States invasion of Grenada" by Wikipedia.
Article: "US university presidents face firestorm over 'evasive' answers on antisemitism" by Lauren Gambino.
Article: "Stefanik criticized for support of Trump after push against campus antisemitism" by Martin Pengelly.
Article: "'Jews will not replace us': Why white supremacists go after Jews" by Yair Rosenberg.
Article: "Unite the Right rally" (Charlottesville) by Wikipedia.
Article: "The Boy Who Cried Wolf" by Aesop.
Hour Three: Taking Down Trump (by Someone Who Did It)
- Tristan Snell, Lawyer, legal commentator & managing partner of MainStreet.Law / previously served as Assistant Attorney General for New York State, where he led the investigation and prosecution of Trump University & is the author of the upcoming book, "Taking Down Trump: 12 Rules for Prosecuting Donald Trump by Someone Who Did It Successfully" @TristanSnell
Article: "John Gotti" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Trump indictments: A very simple guide to his four big legal cases" by Wikipedia.
Article: "What to know about Donald Trump's gag orders in D.C. and New York" by Perry Stein, Shayna Jacobs.
Article: "Trump University" by Wikipedia.
Article: "The 17 findings in the January 6 committee's final report" by Guardian.
Article: "The Department of Justice Is Letting the Coup Plotters Get Away" by Elie Mystal.
Article: "These are the 10 episodes Mueller investigated for obstruction of justice" by Emily Stewart.
Article: "Alvin Bragg" by Wikipedia.
Law: "Electoral Count Reform and Presidential Transition Improvement Act of 2022".
Article: "George H.W. Bush creates coalition to liberate Kuwait, Aug. 7, 1990" by Andrew Glass.
Crusades alert! White supremacist, who had dinner with Trump is calling for the "death penalty" for all non-christians
Article: "White supremacist who dined with Trump calls for 'death penalty' for non-Christians" by David Badash.
Article: "Treaty of Tripoli" (1796) by Wikipedia. "As the government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion"
Letter: "Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Cooper, 10 February 1814". "...the pious disposition of the English judges to connive at the frauds of the clergy".
Article: "James Madison And Church-State Separation" by Rob Boston.
Article: "Secession in the United States" by Wikipedia.
Video: MP2002-342 Former President Truman Discusses the Recognition of Israel.
Article: "Biden says Justice Department should prosecute those who refuse Jan. 6 committee's subpoenas" by Amy B Wang.
Article: "Jim Jordan Shows 'Flaming Hypocrisy' in Subpoena Battle: Legal Experts" by Fatma Khaled.
Article: "US sends Israel 2,000-pound bunker buster bombs for Gaza war, report" by MEO.
Article: "America Must Never Forget what Trump & the GOP Did On April 7th, 2020" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Public policy and health in the Trump era" by Steffie Woolhandler, David U Himmelstein, Sameer Ahmed, Zinzi Bailey, Mary T Bassett, Michael Bird et al.
Article: "Dr. Deborah Birx says thousands of U.S. Covid deaths were preventable" by Yasmin Vossoughian.