I’m Angie Coiro of In Deep Radio, here on today’s BradCast to give Brad and Des a breather. They’re back post-holiday!
As I note in the show (audio link below) you don’t have to agree with Nancy Pelosi’s tactics and goals — hell, you don’t even have to like her — to still doff your cap to her rhetorical skills. Her press conference this week gives a sentence-by-sentence master class in piercing your opponent with a smile, undermining his bombast with grace, and evincing humility while kicking him where it hurts. I walk you through her best-landed blows in today’s show.
Then I go over Trump’s court losses this week, the specter of impeachment, and even the possibility of Trump pardoning himself with DAVID LEVINE of UC Hastings Law. Spoiler about the self-pardon: no one knows how that would play out, because it’s never happened before.
Putting this week’s slam on Harriet Tubman into perspective is ELIZABETH COBBS of Stanford. Bottom line: she was a better person and patriot than he could ever pretend to be.
Finally, I have some time with someone I deeply admire. KATE KENDALL did powerhouse work at the head of the National Center for Lesbian Rights for twenty-two years. Now she’s heading up Pack the Courts, formed to expand the number of SCOTUS seats to give justice a fighting chance. She explains it all in depth, including that choice of ‘potentially-inflammatory name’…
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The BradCast with Brad Friedman 5/24/2019Pelosi Nails Trump Word by Word; Impeachment, Again; Tubman Scares Trump; Packing the Courts: ‘BradCast’ 5/24/2019 | Guest-hosted by Angie Coiro w/ David Levine, Elizabeth Cobbs and Kate Kendall... · · · · · Pelosi Nails Trump Word by Word; Impeachment, Again; Tubman Scares Trump; Packing the Courts: ‘BradCast’ 5/24/2019 | Guest-hosted by Angie Coiro w/ David Levine, Elizabeth Cobbs and Kate Kendall...0:00 0:00
If the Democrats ever summon up the backbone to impeach Trump, the charges could include election theft in 2016 due to faith based voting machines and voter suppression. That could invalidate Trump’s judicial appointments, including for the Supreme Court. But the Democrats would also have to admit they ratified the alleged Electors back in January 2017 (and in January 2001 and 2005), so this is unlikely.
I gave up expecting much from the Supreme Court after I learned (decades ago) that the Chief Justice helped cover up the extrajudicial removal of President Kennedy.