We should not have a two-tier justice system like this in the United States; America should hold the rich to the same level of accountability as the rest of us.

Bill Cosby got the Rich Man’s Deal.

Seriously. The only reason Bill Cosby is out of jail right now is because initially prosecutors offered him a civil settlement that allowed him to pay for his crimes financially rather than by going to prison. And they only did that because he was rich enough to pay.

That prosecutor, who then went on to become one of Trump’s lawyers and promoted Trump’s "big lie" about the election, essentially acted as an agent for some of the women Cosby raped, to extract millions of dollars from Cosby on their behalf in exchange for a promise not to put him in jail.

Then, when the public-opinion blowback became severe as the "Me Too" movement was gathering steam, that prosecutor’s office broke his promise and went ahead with a criminal prosecution, which was why the Pennsylvania Supreme Court let Cosby go free. Prosecutors can’t make deals and then go back on them when public opinion hits them.

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

Thursday's Daily Stack

Article: "Bill Cosby freed after top court overturns sexual assault conviction" by BBC.

Article: "Supreme Court Says California Can’t Collect Names Of Dark Money Donors" by Jessica Gresko.

Article: "Biden calls Georgia law 'Jim Crow in the 21st Century' and says Justice Department is 'taking a look'" by Maegan Vazquez and Kate Sullivan.

Case: "Plessy v. Ferguson", 1896 (separate but equal).

Article: "Progressives Are Hoping That Justice Stephen Breyer Steps Down At The End Of The Term" (he didn't) by Susan Davis.

Bill: "H.R.1 - For the People Act of 2021" by Rep. Sarbanes, John P. [D-MD-3].

Bill: "S.1 - For the People Act of 2021" by Sen. Merkley, Jeff [D-OR].

Article: "Deaths Spike as Heat Wave Broils Canada and the Pacific Northwest" by Vjosa Isai, Dan Bilefsky and Shawn Hubler.

Book: Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming by Paul Hawken.

Article: "Solar Panel Laws in Ohio" by Solar Panels Network USA.

Article: "Michigan solar supporters make new push to eliminate rooftop solar caps" by Tom Perkins.

Article: "Michigan Renewable Energy Standards Initiative (2018)" by Ballotpedia.

Article: "Cosby Got Trump's Sweetheart Deal" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Former Chief Will Forfeit $418 Million" by Eric Dash.

Article: "Bernie Madoff" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Michael Cohen.

Article: "Pelosi Names Members to Select Committee to Investigate January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol" by Nancy Pelosi.

Article: "View Text of H.Res. 503, Legislation that Creates the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol" by Nancy Pelosi.

Article: "Former White House counsel Don McGahn does not have to testify to House, appeals court finds" by Spencer S. Hsu, Ann E. Marimow.

Article: "New details about Trump-McCarthy shouting match show Trump refused to call off the rioters" by Jamie Gangel, Kevin Liptak, Michael Warren and Marshall Cohen.

Article: "Inside the Capitol Riot: An Exclusive Video Investigation" by The New York Times.

Article: "5th Amendment" (double jeopardy, witness against self, due process, taking clause, due compensation)

Article: "January 5 Meeting at Trump International Hotel Could Hold the Key to the January 6 Insurrection" by Seth Abramson.

Article: "Inside the Willard Hotel on January 6" by Seth Abramson.

Site: Seth Abramson.

Article: "Biden condemns ‘broad assault against voting rights’ after supreme court’s Arizona decision – live" by Joan E Greve.

Law: "Civil Rights Act of 1964".

Law: "Voting Rights Act of 1965".

Article: "Shelby County v. Holder" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Biden’s commission on court reform kicks off" by Katie Barlow.

Article: "O. J. Simpson" by Wikipedia.

Hour Two: The Supreme Court Showed Us Today How Dark Money Changes the Rules of an Economy
- Economist Dr. Richard Wolff, Democracy At Work / Author of numerous books - his latest is The Sickness is the System (now also available as an e-book) @profwolff @democracyatwrk

Article: "Supreme Court Says California Can’t Collect Names Of Dark Money Donors" by Jessica Gresko.

Article: "About Form 990, Return of Organization Exempt from Income Tax" by IRS.

Article: "World’s Richest Face Tax Blow After 40% Wealth Surge to $8.4 Trillion" by Ben Steverman, Laura Davison, William Horobin.

Book: The Hidden History of American Oligarchy: Reclaiming Our Democracy from the Ruling Class by Thom Hartmann.

Book: "The Hidden History of the Supreme Court and the Betrayal of America" by Thom Hartmann.

Case: "Buckley v. Valeo", 1976

Case: "First National Bank Of Boston V. Bellotti", 1978

Case: "Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission" (2010)

Article: "'Major problems': There were many warnings before the Florida building collapsed" by John Pacenti, Kyle Bagenstose and Stephen J. Beard.

Article: "Graystone Manor" by Wikipedia.

Article: "National debt of the United States" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Texas power grid faces summer having changed little from February freeze" by Tim Mclaughlin.

Article: "Federalist Society's Leonard Leo is helping Trump make courts more conservative" by Robert O'Harrow Jr. and Shawn Boburg.

Article: "Dark Money Interests Are Buying the Supreme Court" by Nancy LeTourneau.

Book: Captured: The Corporate Infiltration of American Democracy by Sheldon Whitehouse.

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...."

Event: July 4: Thom Hartmann on The Marianne Williamson Podcast: Conversations That Matter.

Article: "Proposals to Divest the Supreme Court of Appellate Jurisdiction: An Analysis in Light of Recent Developments" by John Roberts.

Law: "The Constitution of the State of Alaska Art. VIII, § 4. Sustained Yield".

Documentary: Seaspiracy.

Article: "Longtime Climate Denier Tony Heller Gets YouTube Ban For COVID Denial" by ClimateDenierRoundup.

Article: "The Dust Bowl" by National Drought Mitigation Center.

Article: "Civilian Conservation Corps" (CCC) by Wikipedia.

Hour Three: Exxon Just Exposed the Senators They "Own"
- Richard Wiles, Executive Director - Center for Climate Integrity @climatecosts

Article: "ExxonMobil lobbyist 'deeply embarrassed' after he accidentally reveals 11 senators he says he relies on to push Big Oil's agenda" by Sarah K. Burris.

Article: "Inslee announces bold climate package for 2021–2023 biennium" by Jay Inslee.

Site: Pay Up Climate Polluters.

Article: "It's No Radical Idea to Increase the Size of the Supreme Court. The Democrats Should Waste No Time In Doing It." by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Portland cement" by Wikipedia.

Article: "14 different types of cement you must know" by Krishna.

Article: "Rupert Murdoch" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Marine Le Pen" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Alternative for Germany" (Alternative für Deutschland, AfD) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Narendra Modi" (India) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Jair Bolsonaro" (Brazil) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Rodrigo Duterte" (Philippines) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Recep Tayyip Erdoğan" (Turkey) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Abdel Fattah el-Sisi" (Egypt) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Ayn Rand" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Joseph McCarthy" by Wikipedia.

Article: "John Galt" by Wikipedia.

Video: Mike Wallace interviews Ayn Rand (1959) (full interview).

Book: The Hidden History of American Healthcare: Why Sickness Bankrupts You and Makes Others Insanely Rich by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Canada Day" by Wikipedia.

Twitter: "#CancelCanadaDay".

Article: "Florida needs a broad investigation of concrete buildings" by Paul L. Gentner.

Article: "Canada: 751 unmarked graves found at residential school" by BBC.

Article: "More unmarked graves found near another school that housed Indigenous children in Canada" by AP.

Article: "Joe Biden's vaccination deadline looms" by Brian O'Donovan.

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