The Hidden Historical past of the Supreme Court docket and the Betrayal of America (The Thom Hartmann Hidden Historical past Sequence)
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Thom Hartmann, the preferred progressive radio host in America and a New York Occasions bestselling writer, lays out a sweeping and largely unknown historical past of the Supreme Court docket of the US, from Alexander Hamilton’s arguments towards judicial overview to modern-day debates, with key examples of circumstances the place the Supreme Court docket overstepped its constitutional powers utilizing the excuse of judicial overview, and doable options.
Hartmann explains how the Supreme Court docket has spilled past its Constitutional powers in a collection of rulings, together with the way it turned our elections over to American and overseas oligarchs with twin selections within the Seventies, setting the stage for the very richest of that day to convey Ronald Reagan to energy.
You may hear the story of a collection of Republican presidents who used fraud and treason to safe their elections, and the way the GOP knew it however appeared the opposite means as a result of “the Court docket is hanging within the stability.” A courtroom that then went on to intestine a whole bunch of items of progressive laws, as Republicans had hoped.
Paradoxically, Hartmann factors out, John Roberts (now the Court docket’s Chief Justice), when he labored for Ronald Reagan within the Nineteen Eighties, got here up with a novel concept about how Congress might go across the Supreme Court docket. His objective was to successfully reverse
Roe v. Wade and
Brown v. Board, however within the course of offers us with a chic authorized argument and legislative answer that would, in an emergency, be utilized by a progressive Congress and president to wash up a lot of the harm the Court docket has finished in previous a long time.
Thomas Jefferson argued it’s not the function of the Supreme Court docket to determine what the Structure means, however quite the responsibility of the individuals themselves (and the way they’ll do it). America could quickly be compelled to determine if it’ll proceed to be ruled as a constitutional monarchy, with 9 unelected royals who’ve closing say on every thing, or if we’re to revert to being a democratic republic as was largely the case earlier than the late 1800s when America’s first industrial period oligarchs corrupted the Court docket.
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The Thom Hartmann Hidden Historical past Sequence
The Hidden Historical past Sequence contains ten paramount and well timed books that break down the most important obstacles of right now, putting them in historic context and offering actual, tangible calls to motion each for people and society at giant. Every ebook concisely addresses these urgent present points and presents a set of options with “roadmaps” for people and communities to comply with to create a extra equitable and affluent economic system and a safer, extra simply society for all.
Thom lays out the methods during which inequality in America has shifted over the past 50 years and establish a handful of sensical, highly effective options that tackle these points at completely different ranges, equivalent to getting cash out of politics, addressing social despair and financial inequality, strengthening democratic establishments of governance, and combating concern.
The Hidden Historical past Sequence
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