{"id":11932,"date":"2016-11-18T18:09:29","date_gmt":"2016-11-19T02:09:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=11932"},"modified":"2016-11-18T18:13:13","modified_gmt":"2016-11-19T02:13:13","slug":"stealing-the-supreme-courts-bradcast-11182016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=11932","title":{"rendered":"Stealing the Supreme Court(s): &#8216;BradCast&#8217; 11\/18\/2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/BradCast_USSupremeCourtChambers_111816.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">On today&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/BradCast\"><i>BradCast<\/i><\/a>: In 2000, Republicans used the U.S. Supreme Court to steal the Presidency. In 2016, they used the Presidency to steal the U.S. Supreme Court. So, what, if anything, can be done about it? And, as we also report today, that&#8217;s not the only Supreme Court Republicans may be about to steal. [<i>Audio link to show is posted below.<\/i>]\n<p>Journalist <b>David Dayen<\/b> of <a href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/authors\/david-dayen\">New Republic<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefiscaltimes.com\/Authors\/David-Dayen\">Fiscal Times<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/staff\/davidd\/\">The Intercept<\/a>, joins us to discuss how President Obama has <a href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/article\/138787\/obama-can-put-merrick-garland-supreme-court\">one last &#8220;trump card&#8221;<\/a> to play, if he wishes to block Republicans from out-and-out theft of the nation&#8217;s highest court, at least for a while. But would Obama do it? Could he do it legally? And would Democrats end up being sorry if he did? We discuss that, whether Democrats will continue to &#8220;bring a butter knife to a gunfight&#8221;, and much more today with Dayen, author of <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1620971585\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=1620971585&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=tbb-20&#038;linkId=92fe020ec3fa08dbcff8dfd512b47f5a\"><i>Chain of Title: How Three Ordinary Americans Uncovered Wall Street&#8217;s Great Foreclosure Fraud<\/i><\/a><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=tbb-20&#038;l=am2&#038;o=1&#038;a=1620971585\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/>..<\/p>\n<p>Also today: Donald Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/source-trump-nearing-settlement-in-trump-university-fraud-cases\/2016\/11\/18\/8dc047c0-ada0-11e6-a31b-4b6397e625d0_story.html\">buys his way out<\/a> of multiple &#8216;Trump University&#8217; fraud suits by agreeing to pay up $25 million to his victims. He also, reportedly, names southern <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/jeff-sessions-trumps-pick-for-attorney-general-is-a-fierce-opponent-of-civil-rights\/\">anti-voting rights racist<\/a> Sen. Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III (R-AL) as his nominee for U.S. Attorney General, the nation&#8217;s chief law enforcement official. (That, along with another disturbing new appointment as well.)<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, down in North Carolina, where voters appear to have elected a liberal majority to the state Supreme Court and may have rejected their controversial Republican Governor&#8217;s re-election bid <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=11928\">by a slim margin<\/a>, the Republican-majority state legislature has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsobserver.com\/opinion\/editorials\/article114407513.html\">scheme<\/a> to overturn the <a href=\"https:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/north-carolina-supreme-court-33e0873acb30#.34zcafur7\">will of the voters<\/a> in both the gubernatorial contest <i>and<\/i> at the NC high court. Because that&#8217;s how the GOP rolls (and Democrats don&#8217;t).<\/p>\n<p>Finally, Desi Doyen joins us for the latest <a href=\"https:\/\/GreenNews.BradBlog.com\"><i>Green News Report<\/i><\/a>, with a slim ray or two of optimism, believe it or not, as Sen. Bernie Sanders offers a way for Obama to (permanently?) block the Dakota Access Pipeline from being built, and international U.N. climate negotiators vow to keep reducing greenhouse gas emissions, no matter how Trump plans to undermine efforts to curb global warming&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\".\/Images\/Speaker_Icon_24.png\" style=\"width: 24px; float: none; vertical-align: middle;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px; line-height: 18px;\"> <b><i><a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/audio\/BradCast_BradFriedman_DavidDayen_ObamaSCOTUS_JeffSessions_NCSupremeCourt_111816.mp3\">CLICK TO LISTEN OR DOWNLOAD SHOW!&#8230;<\/a><\/i><\/b><br \/>\n[audio:http:\/\/bradblog.com\/audio\/BradCast_BradFriedman_DavidDayen_ObamaSCOTUS_JeffSessions_NCSupremeCourt_111816.mp3]<\/blockquote>\n<p><center><b>* * *<\/b><\/center><i>While we post <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/BradCast\"><\/i>The BradCast<i><\/a> here every day, and you can hear it across all of our great affiliate stations and websites, to automagically get new episodes as soon as they&#8217;re available sent right to your computer or personal device, subscribe for free at <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-bradcast-w-brad-friedman\/id803467610\">iTunes<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/stitcher.com\/s\/player.php?fid=25838&#038;src=psl\">Stitcher<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/The-BradCast-with-Brad-Friedman-p477565\/\">TuneIn<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/podcastgen\/bradcast\/feed.xml\">our native RSS feed<\/a>!<\/i><\/p>\n<p><!--BB-DONATEPITCH-START--><\/p>\n<div style=\"background:#f5f0e0; border:2px solid #6b5a2e; border-radius:6px; padding:10px 14px; text-align:center; font-family:Georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"display:block; margin:0 0 8px 0; color:#3a2e0e; font-size:0.95em; line-height:1.5;\"><strong>The BRAD BLOG<\/strong>, <em>The BradCast<\/em> and <em>Green News Report<\/em> are all 100% independent and 100% listener and reader supported!<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/Donate\" style=\"display:inline-block; background:#6b5a2e; color:#ffffff; padding:6px 18px; border-radius:4px; font-weight:bold; text-decoration:none; font-family:Georgia,serif; font-size:0.9em;\">Please CLICK HERE to help support our work today!<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!--BB-DONATEPITCH-END--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On today&#8217;s BradCast: In 2000, Republicans used the U.S. Supreme Court to steal the Presidency. In 2016, they used the Presidency to steal the U.S. Supreme Court. So, what, if anything, can be done about it? And, as we also report today, that&#8217;s not the only Supreme Court Republicans may be about to steal. 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