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These books tackle big issues facing America. Recommendations from Open Democracy.
Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy, a memoir by Jamie Raskin features details, with first-hand experience, the attempt on January 6 to overturn the 2020 presidential election results. The congressman will join the Zoom for the first half hour. Discussion starts at 7 PM. An important and moving conversation.
The Scheme: How the Right Wing Used Dark Money to Capture the Supreme Court, by Jennifer Mueller. The influence of dark money on our highest court continues. Following the Dobbs decision, which repealed a 50-year-old right to privacy and personal autonomy, Justice Clarence Thomas invited litigation he could use, and by inference the balance of the court's members, to consider repeal of other specific rights. This book exposes the billionaires, the flotilla of false front groups influencing the court, and the complex means used to hide it all.
The Scheme: How the Right Wing Used Dark Money to Capture the Supreme Court, by Jennifer Mueller. The influence of dark money on our highest court continues. Following the Dobbs decision, which repealed a 50-year-old right to privacy and personal autonomy, Justice Clarence Thomas invited litigation he could use, and by inference the balance of the court's members, to consider repeal of other specific rights. This book exposes the billionaires, the flotilla of false front groups influencing the court, and the complex means used to hide it all.
Open Democracy, 4 Park Street, Concord, NH, is a 501(c)(3) education non-profit, organized in 2009 by then 99-year-old Doris Granny D. Haddock, who walked from San Diego, California to Washington, D.C., entirely on foot, 10 miles a day for 14 months. She was outraged by the multi-billion dollar tax breaks for Big Tobacco. She thought it important to bring awareness to the need for campaign finance reform. Now deceased, her work continues.
