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I just purchased The Hidden History of the Supreme Court in audio yesterday and completed The Hidden History concerning voter suppression yesterday. I will buy the hard copies and intend to listen to the whole series while walking for exercise since I was recently diagnosed with type two diabetes and can't sit to read for hours anymore. I will listen to the books from the series I have already read. each is about $11.00 so I will try not to purchase more than one per week which is about four hours of listening.

I am grateful to AOC for standing up to what used to be thought of as an awesome institution of nonpartisan justice during my childhood. I am grateful to Thom Hartman for his efforts and accomplishments to seek the truth and share it with the rest of us.

Even if AOC's impeachment efforts fail, as Hartmann pointed out, the exposure caused the court to change course in the past and may do so again.

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Even if the Court changes it's evil ways, the damage has been done. Reversing Roe vs. Wade will cause terrible suffering and even death among thousands or even millions of women. I don't believe in the supernatural but it would seem evil has taken possession of some of them. I submit that it is religion. Next time you are looking for an audio book, may I suggest: "God is not Great how religion spoils everything" by Christopher Hitchens. And " The God Delusion" by Richard Dawkins. These will open your eyes.

PS. Don't tell your religious friends about these, they might burn you at the stake or dunk you in a pond to see if you're a witch.

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What is so crazy-making is how these heretics use the name of Jesus in vain while proclaiming the hatred, violence and injustice of the Old Testament as true "Christianity." As in "Christ." Who would be horrified at most of what MAGA believes.

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lol. Thanks for the suggestions. I wrote them down. I have watched videos of Hitchens and Dawkins debating with someone on the "God" topic but it's been a few years.

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thepoetryofreality.com is a website (also on Youtube ) that has weekly discussions hosted by Dawkins with various scholars on philosophical subjects.

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Thanks. I will check that out also. I used to listen to Sam Harris, but I'm not into meditation.

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Yeah, but she's just grandstanding. To prove a case, line up the witnesses.

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Daniel, tax records? Photographs?

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You bet. If he got gifts, tax paid by the donor. Could be everyone involved has tax problems. Plus plenty of witnesses. Former law clerks. Other people who attended the events. How about the trip to Russia?

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LOL grandstanding! So, what is the opposite of grandstanding? Standing? Please explain how Biden is standing up to the beyond-the-pale corrupted SCOTUS. Biden'd position on the legal structure can be assayed by his appointment of Garland. Biden could now, after the serendipitous presidential empowerment by the SCOTUS, wreak havoc on them. But he won't. He won't stand.

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This is my frustration. Garland is useless. He has no spine, no sense of urgency, nothing other than mealy-mouthed self-backside protection. Sure, he appointed Jack Smith - two years too late and very little support. Also at fault is Biden, who has refused to fire Garland.

From an article in Salon this morning: "Justice Department probe of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas could uncover whether the justice knowingly and willfully filed false financial disclosure statements or failed to pay taxes on luxury gifts — despite Attorney General Merrick Garland's likely lack of political will to launch an investigation months before the November election, legal experts told Salon.""

We have no functioning justiciar system in this country - just a mechanism for putting poor people, especially poor black men, in for-profit, enslaving prisons - industries based in the confederate south.

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Well said, SuZieCoyote! I agree and feel your anger.

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Biden has to either be complicit or brain dead to not notice! I would bet on complicit.

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I believe SCOtUS slipped a caveat into that decision that it takes affect after the next president takes office.

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