On today’s BradCast we cover a number of important new rulings on a number of important cases around the country — and most of those rulings are actually very good news!
I’m joined by Desi Doyen and The BRAD BLOG’s legal analyst Ernest A. Canning to discuss several of them (after a blessedly short few minutes on Trump and Fox ‘News’ at the top — you’re welcome!), including:
• The matter of the nation’s dumbest Governor, Maine’s Paul LePage (R), who tried, but failed, to properly veto some 65 pieces of legislation passed by his state legislature. The verdict is now back from the state Supreme Court, to whom LePage had appealed to help fix his epic failure. Suffice to say, LePage remains the nation’s dumbest Governor.
• A Colorado state appellate court has now ruled on the case of a local baker who says he really doesn’t mind serving gay people in his shop at all…unless they want to buy a cake to celebrate their wedding. Should he be allowed to refuse service based on a so-called religious belief?
• The Connecticut Supreme Court rules on the constitutionality of the state’s death penalty after the legislature passed a law banning its use…on everybody except the 11 prisoners who were already sentenced to die before the state’s moratorium was passed.
• A U.S. Appeals Court rules on whether Idaho’s “Ag-Gag” law, barring journalists and whistleblowers from video taping abuses at factory farms, feed lots and slaughter houses, etc.,. violates the Constitution’s First Amendment and whether those who violate that law can be thrown in jail, as the law mandates!
• A U.S. Appeals Court in Texas has ruled against the state Republicans’ disenfranchising Photo ID voting restriction, finding it a violation of the Voting Rights Act. But will the state GOP be successful in appealing and/or forestalling that ruling until after next year’s elections?
All of the above and more discussed, debated, analyzed and dissected on today’s BradCast! Plus, the the latest Green News Report on the U.S. Forest Service now spending half of their budget on fighting fires, thanks to global warming, and Elon Musk stepping up to help save Africa…with the power of the sun…
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