{"id":15002,"date":"2024-04-11T18:49:33","date_gmt":"2024-04-12T01:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=15002"},"modified":"2024-04-11T18:58:05","modified_gmt":"2024-04-12T01:58:05","slug":"biden-closes-gun-show-loophole-republicans-are-turning-desperate-bradcast-4112024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=15002","title":{"rendered":"Biden Closes &#8216;Gun Show Loophole&#8217;; Republicans Are Turning Desperate: &#8216;BradCast&#8217; 4\/11\/2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/BradCast_BidenSunglassesThumb_041124.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">Desperate times, desperate measures and all that that entails on today&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/BradCast\"><i>BradCast<\/i><\/a>. Plus, we&#8217;ve got several pieces of long-overdue and wildly under-reported very good news as well.  [<i>Audio link to full show follows this summary.<\/i>]\n<ul>\n<li>Yes, <b>Donald Trump<\/b>&#8216;s newly hand-picked RNC Chair <b>Michael Whatley<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/atrupar\/status\/1776986542038192360\">really did argue<\/a> this week that America&#8217;s enemies include <b><i>Ukraine<\/i><\/b> and charged that the President&#8217;s &#8220;feckless leadership&#8221; encourages them to &#8220;meddle with our elections here.&#8221; He <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/trump-rnc-chair-whatley-says-ukraine-us-adversary-republicans-1887731\">also mentioned<\/a> China and Iran as U.S. adversaries, but failed to say a word about <b>Russia<\/b>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Gun safety advocates &#8212; which is to say, the vast majority of Americans &#8212; have been hoping for years to see the so-called &#8220;gun show loophole&#8221; to avoid background checks closed. Today, after a lengthy rule-making process by the <b>Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms<\/b> (ATF) following passage of the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act in 2022, <b>President Biden<\/b> and the <b>Dept. of Justice<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/biden-administration-background-checks-atf-rule-70261cc0512eea8d52ef9585a9a48ab2\">announced<\/a> they are finally doing it. &#8220;This is going to keep guns out of the hands of domestic abusers and felons,&#8221; said Biden in a statement today. His Attorney General, <b>Merrick Garland<\/b>, who signed off on the rule on Thursday, <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/biden-administration-close-gun-show-loophole\/story?id=109109314\">told reporters<\/a>: &#8220;Under this regulation, it will not matter if guns are sold on the Internet, at a gun show or in a brick and mortar store. If you sell guns [you] must conduct background checks.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Last week it was <b>Ohio<\/b>&#8216;s Republican Secretary of State, and now <b>Alabama<\/b>&#8216;s is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.semafor.com\/article\/04\/10\/2024\/could-two-red-states-keep-joe-biden-off-the-general-election-ballot\">warning Democrats<\/a> that he may not allow <b>Joe Biden<\/b> on the state&#8217;s ballot this November because the Democratic National Convention falls several days after state ballot deadlines. Both Secretaries of State had previously opposed Trump&#8217;s removal from the ballot in <b>Colorado<\/b> due to the state Supreme Court&#8217;s finding that he violated the U.S. Constitution&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/constitution.congress.gov\/browse\/amendment-14\/section-3\/\">&#8220;Insurrectionist Disqualification Clause&#8221;<\/a>. And both OH and AL allowed <b>Donald Trump<\/b> on their state&#8217;s ballots in 2020 despite the Republican National Convention being convened after each state&#8217;s statutory deadlines that year. Are Republicans really <i>that<\/i> desperate?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>In 2022, Fulton County D.A. <b>Fani Willis<\/b> was disqualified from criminally investigating <b>Georgia<\/b>&#8216;s Lt. Governor <b>Burt Jones<\/b>, who aided Trump&#8217;s attempt to steal the Peach State&#8217;s 2020 election as a &#8220;fake elector&#8221;. Willis was blocked because she had hosted a fund-raiser for a political rival of Jones. Now, two years later, a former Republican D.A. in the state, <b>Pete Skandalakis<\/b>, who was tasked with naming an alternate prosecutor to probe Jones &#8212; and sued for taking so long to do it &#8212; has finally <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ajc.com\/politics\/state-prosecutor-to-investigate-lt-gov-burt-jones-in-trump-case\/WYGLXZS4OJGTRFAEWEHSBUWNMM\/\">named a replacement<\/a>. Himself.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The rightwing propagandists at <b>Fox &#8220;News&#8221;<\/b> are definitely getting desperate following the all-Republican <b>Arizona<\/b> Supreme Court&#8217;s ruling this week that <a href=\"https:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/news\/arizona-supreme-court-abortion-ballot\">reinstates<\/a> an 1864 territorial law mandating a near-total ban on abortion in the state. On Tuesday, the day the ruling was handed down, not one of the rightwing propaganda outlet&#8217;s evening prime-time stars even discussed it on their shows. That day, the topic was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediamatters.org\/fox-news\/fox-news-buries-court-decision-implementing-near-total-abortion-ban-arizona\">discussed for just 12 minutes<\/a> across three different Fox programs earlier in the day, as compared to more than two-hours each of coverage on both CNN and MSNBC that same day and night. The next day, on Wednesday, <b>Sean Hannity<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediamatters.org\/fox-news\/sean-hannity-urged-arizona-republicans-repeal-states-1864-abortion-ban-hours-later-when\">decided<\/a> the 160-year old law should now be overturned and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Acyn\/status\/1778231694182547854\">blamed<\/a> the AZ Court&#8217;s wildly unpopular decision &#8212; and the predicament it offers to both women in the state and Republican candidates around the country &#8212; on Arizona&#8217;s Democratic Governor and Attorney General (who opposed the ruling.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>After the most expensive state Supreme Court race in U.S. history last year, resulting in liberals retaking a majority on <b>Wisconsin<\/b>&#8216;s high court for the first time in 15 years, the longest serving member of its now-liberal majority, 73-year old Justice <b>Ann Walsh Bradley<\/b>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2024\/04\/11\/wisconsin-supreme-court-justice-reelection\/\">announced<\/a> she will not run for another 10-year term next year as previously planned. Thursday&#8217;s decision by the popular, longtime jurist offers a chance for rightwingers to retake control of the Court in the state&#8217;s 2025 Spring election. They will have to defend seats on the Court in both 2026 and 2027 thereafter. So, if they don&#8217;t win next year, they won&#8217;t get another chance at winning back a majority until 2028. The stakes could hardly be higher.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Finally, Desi Doyen joins us for <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=15001\">our latest <i>Green News Report<\/i><\/a> with more wildly under-reported good news on the <b>Biden EPA<\/b>&#8216;s new rules to end deadly airborne pollution from chemical plants pollution and cancer-causing <b>PFAS &#8220;forever chemicals&#8221;<\/b> in our drinking water. It&#8217;s about damn time. She&#8217;s got still more good &#8212; and not so good &#8212; news in today&#8217;s report as well&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\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-BidenGunShowLoophole-RNCUkraine-JonesProbeGA-FoxAbortionPanicAZ-JusticeRetiresWI_041124.mp3\">CLICK TO LISTEN OR DOWNLOAD SHOW!&#8230;<\/a><\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p><\/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=\"https:\/\/www.pandora.com\/podcast\/the-bradcast-w-brad-friedman\/PC:1000025838\">Pandora<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/The-BradCast-with-Brad-Friedman-p477565\/\">TuneIn<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.google.com\/feed\/aHR0cHM6Ly9icmFkYmxvZy5jb20vcG9kY2FzdGdlbi9icmFkY2FzdC9mZWVkLnhtbA\">Google<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-BradCast-w-Brad-Friedman\/dp\/B08JJRN86R\/ref=sr_1_1\">Amazon<\/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>Desperate times, desperate measures and all that that entails on today&#8217;s BradCast. Plus, we&#8217;ve got several pieces of long-overdue and wildly under-reported very good news as well. [Audio link to full show follows this summary.] Yes, Donald Trump&#8216;s newly hand-picked RNC Chair Michael Whatley really did argue this week that America&#8217;s enemies include Ukraine and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,113,70,555,89,675,1965,223,479,1611,1964,1629,14,320,477,821,1963,551,15,126,295,78,698,478,143],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-15002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accountability","category-alabama","category-arizona","category-atf","category-media-appearance","category-bradcast","category-burt-jones","category-dept-of-justice","category-donald-trump","category-election-2024","category-election-2025","category-fani-willis","category-fox-news","category-joe-biden","category-kpfk","category-merrick-garland","category-michael-whatley","category-nra","category-ohio","category-rights-and-freedoms","category-rnc","category-sean-hannity","category-ukraine","category-wi-supreme-court-election","category-wisconsin","bb-type-bradcast"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15002"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=15002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}