{"id":15374,"date":"2025-04-28T17:47:29","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T00:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=15374"},"modified":"2025-04-28T18:48:53","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T01:48:53","slug":"and-then-they-came-for-the-judges-bradcast-4282025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=15374","title":{"rendered":"And Then They Came for the Judges&#8230;: &#8216;BradCast&#8217; 4\/28\/2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/BradCast_HannahDuganArrest042525_042825.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">I&#8217;ll try to make this brief today, so you can get right on to actually listening to today&#8217;s  <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/BradCast\"><i>BradCast<\/i><\/a>.  [<i>Audio link to full show follows this summary.<\/i>]\n<p>Among our stories today, as <b>Donald Trump<\/b> officially becomes the lowest-rated President in U.S. history during his first 100 days in office since polling began in the FDR Era&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Trump Administration has now <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/apr\/28\/trump-doj-voting-rights\">gutted<\/a> the <b>Voting Rights Unit<\/b> in the Civil Rights Section of the <b>Dept. of Justice<\/b>. All of the senior managers have been reassigned elsewhere and <i>all<\/i> pending cases from the prior Administration have now been dropped. So much for the DoJ&#8217;s &#8220;crown jewel&#8221;&#8230;and enforcement of voting rights.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>After losing one case after another after another in lower courts since taking office, the Trump Administration is hoping to change their luck by turning the tables by <a href=\"https:\/\/wapo.st\/4lR6Nu5\">arresting a sitting state judge<\/a> in <b>Wisconsin<\/b> for allegedly helping an undocumented migrant avoid arrest by <b>ICE<\/b> when he was in her courtroom for a completely unrelated case. The state judge, <b>Hannah Dugan<\/b>, was hand-cuffed at the court (as opposed to, for example, Trump being allowed to turn himself in at an appointed hour for his two felony indictments) and Trump&#8217;s FBI Director, <b>Kash Patel<\/b>, posted a photo of the perp walk on social media <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/04\/26\/politics\/patel-wisconsin-judge-photo-violate-conduct\/index.html\">in violation of DoJ&#8217;s long-standing policy<\/a>. The case against Hannah, however, may not turn out to be a very good one, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.emptywheel.net\/2025\/04\/27\/some-thoughts-on-the-arrest-of-judge-hannah-dugan\/\">according to Marcy Wheeler<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>And now they&#8217;re &#8220;deporting&#8221; <b>U.S. citizens<\/b>.  At least children. With their mothers. Late last week, two mothers were both <a href=\"https:\/\/wapo.st\/4jSrp38\">deported to Honduras<\/a> after showing up for a scheduled check-in along with their kids, one of whom is 2-years old, one who is 7-years old, and one who is 4-years old&#8230;with Stage 4 cancer. The children are all U.S. citizens. Neither of the mothers were reportedly allowed to speak to a lawyer after being handcuffed and shipped out of the country. One of the women was reportedly allowed to speak to the father of her children for 1-minute before the call was cut off by <b>ICE<\/b> and the women and their children were all deported. And yet, when asked about it on Sunday, Sec. of State <b>Marco Rubio<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/meet-the-press\/video\/sec-rubio-says-all-on-u-s-soil-entitled-to-due-process-as-trump-admin-reportedly-deports-citizens-238425157662\">had the gall to say<\/a> that, while both citizens and non-citizens alike are entitled to Constitutional due process, &#8220;if you&#8217;re in this this country unlawfully, you have no right to be here and you must be removed.&#8221; But, how do you determine if someone is in the country unlawfully <i>without due process<\/i>? Clearly, neither of these women &#8212; <i>OR THEIR CHILDREN<\/i> &#8212; received it. That, by the way, is according to the far-right, very Trumpy, Trump-appointed U.S. District Judge in Texas overseeing their cases. Even he is not happy about it!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>So, is this what Trumpers were hoping for when they voted for him last November? I had hoped to talk to a few of them as I asked such listeners to give us a call today.  But, right as we finally got to the phones, the entire phone system here at <strong>KPFK<\/strong> crashed.  \ud83d\ude41  [<i>Please consider giving them a <a href=\"https:\/\/kpfk.allyrafundraising.com\/\">donation<\/a> to help upgrade the phone system! And <\/i>please<i> tell them Brad sent you when you do!<\/i>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Oh, well. That gave us some time to walk through at least a few of the <a href=\"https:\/\/wapo.st\/4jPjrrB\">major<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2025\/04\/25\/donald-trump-approval-rating-survey\/83279671007\/\">new<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/04\/27\/politics\/approval-rating-trump-100-days\/index.html\">polls<\/a> out over the past few days in the run up to <b>Trump&#8217;s 100th Day<\/b> in office this week, finding him with the lowest rating at this time in office of every President who has served over the past 100 years. And it&#8217;s not just his overall approval that has crashed &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/edblog\/yes-public-opinion-still-matters-even-more-than-before\/sharetoken\/0c0ed15e-8b4a-45b8-ac63-35c9d7999574\">into the 30s<\/a> in some of the polls &#8212; but, on e<i>very single issue of note<\/i>, more Americans oppose him than support him&#8230;by <i>huge<\/i> margins&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>And also, some time to enjoy the schadenfreude of a whole bunch of <strong>MAGA<\/strong> folks who seem to now deeply <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/michaelabramwell\/trump-voters-regret-ballot-choices\">regret their vote<\/a> for <strong>Donald Trump<\/strong>&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This seems to be the worst fascist takeover ever. But he&#8217;s doing it anyway&#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_DOJVotingRightsUnitGutted-JudgeArrestedWI-CitizenChildrenDeported_042825.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:\/\/www.iheart.com\/podcast\/256-the-bradcast-w-brad-friedm-30973643\/\">iHeart<\/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>I&#8217;ll try to make this brief today, so you can get right on to actually listening to today&#8217;s BradCast. 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