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'BradCast' 6/30/2022 (Guest: Legal expert Mark Joseph Stern on SCOTUS gutting the EPA)
06-30-2022 (53.25 MB)
On today's 'BradCast': Today was the grand finale of a U.S. Supreme Court term like no other. The radical, rightwing activists on the Republicans' stolen-and-packed super-majority ignored the text of written law and precedent to give a parting gift to the fossil fuel industry while the nation and globe burn. In a 6-3 decision in 'West Virginia v. EPA,' the rightwing majority invoked their wholly-invented 'major questions' doctrine to strip the EPA of authority to regulate climate-warming greenhouse gas emissions from power plants. As predictable as it is corrupt, the ruling will not only restrict the EPA but also other federal agencies from carrying out their mandates, as well - - a huge success in Republicans' decades-long war to 'dismantle the administrative state,' with the rest of humanity losing. The great MARK JOSEPH STERN, legal journalist and Constitutional law expert at Slate, delves into the ruling, the underlying policies and legal issues, and what it means going forward. Stern also explains several opinions released over the last week, including a moderately positive ruling on immigration policy; the gutting of Miranda rights; approval of Louisiana's racist, gerrymandered maps that violate the Voting Rights Act; Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson's swearing in as the first-ever black female justice; and options for Supreme Court reform. Next year, the rightwing Court will consider the pretend legal notion called the 'Independent State Legislature' doctrine, which Stern warns would allow state legislatures to overturn the will of the voters, appointing electors of the losing presidential candidate to the Electoral College, as Donald Trump tried to do in his attempted coup in 2020.
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Duration: 58:09 m - Filetype: mp3 (128 kbps 44100 Hz)