Will the media amplify the voices of Republicans who're saying it's really no big deal, trying to overthrow the government, and that Thomas should stay on the Court?

In 1969, Richard Nixon and congressional Republicans took down the Supreme Court's most liberal member, Abe Fortas, threatening to send his wife to prison. There's a lesson here for today's Democrats and Clarence Thomas.

Today's Democrats are calling on Clarence Thomas to recuse himself from decisions involving Trump's conspiracy to overthrow our government.

They should be calling on him to resign and his wife to be prosecuted.

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

Banding Together for the Common Good.

Back in 2002, when I wrote this book, most Americans thought the Boston Tea Party was a revolt against "excess taxes" and that "corporate personhood" was something the Supreme Court conferred on companies back in 1886. This book blew up both myths, pointing out that the Boston Tea Party was a revolt against the British government giving the East India Company the largest corporate tax cut in history (so they could unfairly compete with small colonial tea merchants) — basically a revolt against the Wal-Mart-ization of the colonies — and that the Supreme Court did not rule that corporations are persons and thus entitled to rights under the Bill of Rights in 1886 (it was a corrupt scam by a bribed SCOTUS justice and Court Clerk). In the 20 years since Unequal Protection first came out, this "new" knowledge is now widespread. With permission from the publisher, Berrett-Koehler, I'll be sharing the entire book (the updated edition) with you, one chapter at a time, over the next dozen or so Sundays.

Chapter 3 - Banding Together for the Common Good

In the beginning, there were people.

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

The Best of the Rest of the News

— Was Clarence Thomas trying for a twofer?
— After the single most racist confirmation hearing before the US Senate in my long lifetime, Republican leader Mitch McConnell says he's not going to vote for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson.
— Republicans in Arizona just passed the most extreme voter purge in history, requiring anybody who registered to vote more than 18 years ago to re-register before their votes can be counted.
— Meanwhile, the US Supreme Court — without hearing any arguments or pleadings — chose to cancel a voting map that would have created a largely Democratic (and Black) congressional district in that state.
— What's going on with Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg's decision to abandon his office's prosecution of Donald Trump and his family?
— Another plus for open, honest democracy: it looks like Putin's losing his war against Ukraine because of corruption in his own government.
— The Turner Diaries narrative that animated Tim McVeigh to blow up the Oklahoma City Federal Building in the hope of starting a race war in America live on.
— Geeky Science: What will be the impact of finding plastics in our blood?
— In Good News, the largest "built all at once" wind farm ever has opened in Oklahoma, and is now on track to save its customers over a billion dollars.

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

Monday's Daily Stack

Article: "Democrats Must Demand Justice Thomas Resign...and His Wife is Prosecuted" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "The Congress: The Fortas Film Festival" by TIME Magazine.

Article: "Sen. Amy Klobuchar demands Justice Thomas recuse himself from future election cases over his wife's texts" by Katie Balevic.

Article: "The Judge Who Coined "Indict a Ham Sandwich" Was Himself Indicted" by Josh Levin.

Book: The Rehnquist Choice: The Untold Story of the Nixon Appointment That Redefined the Supreme Court by John W. Dean.

Article: "Yale Law School Holds 'Fortas Film Festival'" by New York Times.

Article: "Clarence Thomas' Abe Fortas problem" by Steve Benen.

Article: "Clarence Thomas Sole Dissenter as SCOTUS Allows Trump's Docs to Be Seen by 1/6 Committee" by Justin Klawans.

Article: "On This Day In 1968: Johnson Withdraws Fortas Nomination To The Supreme Court" by Ken Rudin.

Article: "Graham: Judicial confirmation process could get even more toxic" by Paul Kane.

Article: "Roman Abramovich and Ukraine peace negotiators suffered symptoms of suspected poisoning, says Bellingcat" by Poppy Wood.

Article: "Virginia Thomas" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Media sleepwalks past Ginni Thomas' treason " by Eric Boehlert.

Article: "Neither Nato nor Ukraine can de-Putinise Russia. We Russians must do it ourselves" by Mikhail Shishkin.

Book: "The Hidden History of Neoliberalism: How Reaganism Gutted America and How to Restore Its Greatness" 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: "Michael Flynn Makes Asinine Claim That Bill Gates and George Soros are Planting Tracking Devices 'Under the Skin' to Usher in 'New World Order'" by Ken Meyer.

Book: The Fourth Industrial Revolution by Klaus Schwab.

Video: George H.W. Bush New World Order Speech - Sept 11 1990.

Article: "President Biden's improvised comment on Putin during Warsaw speech looms over White House" by Maegan Vazquez and Kevin Liptak.

Article: "Putin shouldn't remain in power. Biden's advisers blew it" by Jennifer Rubin.

Article: "Pornography Is Protected by the First Amendment" by Damon Root.

Article: "Steve Bannon pleads not guilty to fraud after arrest on luxury yacht" by Victoria Bekiempis.

Article: "Jan. 6 committee recommends Trump adviser Bannon face contempt charges" by Dareh Gregorian and Dartunorro Clark.

Article: "Kazakhstan" by Wikipedia.

Book: Russian Crossroads: Toward the New Millennium by Yevgeny Primakov.

Article: "Yevgeny Primakov" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Ilhan Omar Says Clarence Thomas Needs to Be Impeached Over Wife's Texts" by Giulia Carbonaro.

Article: "Why Democrats should impeach Justice Clarence Thomas" by Mehdi Hasan.

Article: "The 'zero-Covid' approach got bad press, but it worked – and it could work again " by Laura Spinney.

Article: "Understanding Long Covid" by Jonathan Wolfe.

Article: "How covid brain fog may overlap with 'chemo brain' and Alzheimer's" by Ariana Eunjung Cha.

Article: "Trump probably broke the law in an effort to obstruct Jan. 6 proceedings, judge says" by Dareh Gregorian and Daniel Barnes.

Article: "Thank you Vasili Arkhipov, the man who stopped nuclear war" by Edward Wilson.

Article: "1983 Soviet nuclear false alarm incident" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Factbox: The chain of command for potential Russian nuclear strikes" by Reuters.

Article: "My Monthslong Journey with COVID-19" by Amee Vanderpool.

Article: "'Bible Believing' Christian Nationalist Who Wants to Shoot 'Godless Commies' in the Face Running for State Senate" by Kyle Mantyla.

Article: "Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene said Pete Buttigieg and his husband should 'stay out of girls' bathrooms'" by Alia Shoaib.

Article: "Healthy Davis Together: could this be the future of public health in America?" by Andy Fell.

Site: Healthy Davis Together.

Article: "Discovery doctrine" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Fighting Continues in Yemen Amid Humanitarian Disaster as War Enters Its Eighth Year" by Democracy Now!

Article: "The tragedy of Afghanistan's malnourished children" by Yogita Limaye.

Article: "Lindsey Graham Asks Ketanji Brown Jackson To Rate How Religious She Is From 1 To 10" by Sara Boboltz.

Article: "In God We Trust" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Lindsey Graham Repeats Call to 'Take Out' Putin After Zelensky Speech" by Jon Jackson.

Case: "United States v. Ballin, 144 U.S. 1 (1892)".

Article: "Constitution of the United States" Article 1 Section 3. "The Vice President of the United States shall be President of the Senate, but shall have no Vote, unless they be equally divided."

Article: "United Nations Security Council veto power" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Could Vice President Harris Follow Richard Nixon & Challenge the Filibuster?" by Thom Hartmann.

Nurses For America to Congress: "Show Us the Money" for Covid Funding Now!!
- Teri Mills, MS RN CNE, Oregon Nurse, Public Health Defender and Member of Nurses for America

Article: "'Utter Travesty': Uninsured Americans Will Now Be Charged $125 for a Single PCR Covid-19 Test" by Jon Queally.

Article: "Shanghai begins locking down millions as China's Covid cases surge" by Vincent Ni.

Article: "Moderna seeks FDA authorization for a second booster dose of its coronavirus vaccine for all adults" by Katie Shepherd.

Article: "Pfizer asks FDA to authorize second booster for adults 65 plus" by Nathaniel Weixel.

Article: "With millions still unboosted against COVID, public health experts face tricky messaging around potential 4th shot" by Arielle Mitropoulos.

Hour Three: These 6 Corporations Are Funding the Attack on Women's Reproductive Rights
- Judd Legum, Journalist / Founder - Popular.info

Article: "These six corporations are financing an assault on reproductive rights in six states" by Judd Legum, Tesnim Zekeria, and Rebecca Crosby.

Case: "Roe v. Wade" (1973).

Article: "Oregon invests $15 million to prepare for fallout of Idaho anti-abortion legislation" by Lizzy Acker.

Article: "Citigroup will pay travel costs for employee abortions in response to the Texas law." by Lananh Nguyen.

Article: "Republican-backed measure to restrict filming of police".

Article: "Madison Cawthorn claims he was invited to an orgy in Washington" by Chris Cillizza.

Article: "The Ignominious Deceits of Congressman Cawthorn" by Sara Luterman.

Article: "2 prosecutors leading Manhattan DA's Trump probe resign, leaving charges in doubt" by Aaron Katersky.

Article: "Trump Is Guilty of 'Numerous' Felonies, Prosecutor Who Resigned Says" by William K. Rashbaum, Ben Protess and Jonah E. Bromwich.

Article: "Constitution of the United States", article 3 section 1. "... The Judges, both of the supreme and inferior Courts, shall hold their Offices during good Behaviour..."

Bill: "H.R.5140 - Supreme Court Term Limits and Regular Appointments Act of 2021" by Rep. Khanna, Ro [D-CA-17].

Article: "Zelensky opens door to making neutral status part of peace deal" by Monique Beals.

Article: "Ukraine pleads for help, says Russia wants to split nation" by Yuras Karmanau.

Article: "Moscow Peace Treaty" (1940, Finland and the Soviet Union) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation" by Wikipedia.

Video: 'Anywhere they can get just to escape all of this': Refugees pour out of Ukraine.

Article: "Did Clarence Thomas' Wife Ginni Sponsor 80 Buses to Capitol Riots?" by Alex Kasprak.

Article: "Donald Trump rescinds his endorsement of Mo Brooks in Alabama's US Senate race" by Gabby Orr.

Book: Corruptible: Who Gets Power and How It Changes Us by Brian Klaas.

Video: How Power Changes Us - Conversations With Great Minds - Dr. Brian Klaas.

Book: The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber, David Wengrow.

Book: Intelethics: Surviving the End of the World As We Knew It by Reginald Patterson.

Tuesday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 12-3pm ET

I'll be debating Charles Sauer, Libertarian / Economist & President - The Market Institute / author of Profit Motive: What Drives the Things We Do

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