It’s NICOLE SANDLER, your faithful guest host filling in for Brad and Desi today on the BradCast.
Our Justice Department is horribly corrupt with an Attorney General who really has taken on the role of Donald Trump’s ‘Roy Cohn’. We’re also at the official end of this term of the Supreme Court. I couldn’t think of anyone I’d rather speak to about both of these issues other than ELIE MYSTAL, the informative and always-entertaining justice correspondent for The Nation magazine.
Of course with all the madness in our world, we begin with the latest news…From the coronavirus — the number of new cases of COVID-19 in the United States has gone up 80% in the past two weeks, adding to the country’s record of confirmed cases, which is the worst in the world. Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s leading infectious disease expert, warned on Tuesday that the United States could see more than a doubling of current tallies of new cases every 24 hours — with 100,00 new cases each day a definite possibility.
Then there’s the bombshell report on the Russians paying bounties on American lives to Taliban aligned fighters in Afghanistan. For the doubters out there, the NY Times is following the money, reporting “American officials intercepted electronic data showing large financial transfers from a bank account controlled by Russia’s military intelligence agency — the GRU — to a Taliban-linked account, evidence that supported their conclusion that Russia covertly offered bounties for killing U.S. and coalition troops in Afghanistan.”
And we run down the U.S. Supreme Court cases that were announced over the past week, and let you know which ones we’re still waiting on.
There’s certainly no shortage of news as we head into the 4th of July holiday!…
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