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Thom's blog
America is facing a "dark money" crisis & the Supreme Court is about to make it worse
 Joe Biden must "pack the court" Thanks to Donald Trump and Mitch McConnell, the Supreme Court has become a menace, and only Congress and President Biden can fix it. In 2010 conservatives on the Supreme Court, over the loud and clear objections of members of the moderate and liberal minority, doubled down on earlier suggestions that corporations are not "dead and soulless creations of the law," as one of America's first Supreme Court justices called them, but actually "persons" and, as such, have access to those rights we find in the Constitution and Bill of Rights. Today's Supreme Court just chose to hear a new case that may radically expand those "corporate rights" by letting corporations conceal the people funding their actions in the political sphere. Read more here. -Thom
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Tuesday's Daily Stack 
Hour One: We just hit 400,000 Americans dead from Covid. Do you know someone who died or is now disabled because of it? Share their story?
Plus, America is facing a "dark money" crisis & the Supreme Court is about to make it worse...Joe Biden must "pack the court"
Quote: " The Corporation itself is onely in abstracto, and resteth onely in intendment and consideration of the Law; for a Corporation aggregate of many is invisible, immortal, & resteth only in intendment and consideration of the Law; and therefore cannot have predecessor nor successor. They may not commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor excommunicate, for they have no souls, neither can they appear in person, but by Attorney. A Corporation aggregate of many cannot do fealty, for an invisible body cannot be in person, nor can swear, it is not subject to imbecilities, or death of the natural, body, and divers other cases." - Sir Edward Coke.
Hour Two: How Authoritarians Turn Their Nations Into Their Own Private Property...
Article: " Constitution of the United States" Article 2 Section 2. "The President ... shall have Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offences against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment."Article: " Constitution of the United States", article 3 section 1. "... The judicial Power of the United States, shall be vested in one supreme Court, and in such inferior Courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish..." Article: " Constitution of the United States", article 3 section 2. "... In all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, and those in which a State shall be Party, the supreme Court shall have original Jurisdiction. In all the other Cases before mentioned, the supreme Court shall have appellate Jurisdiction, both as to Law Fact, with such Exceptions, and under such Regulations as the Congress shall make...."
Hour Three: If Trump Isn't Held Accountable... Will Sedition Become Normalized?
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Wednesday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 12-3pm ET
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Watch & Listen to Thom
Psychology of Mob Mentality (w/ Dr. Justin A. Frank)
America Can Never Get Rid Of Racism (w/ Joe Madison)
Trump's Big Lie At War With Democracy
The Black Women Who Paved the Way (w/ Judith Browne Dianis)
Do Your Friends Still Like Trump? (w/ Dr. Justin A. Frank)
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