NICOLE SANDLER here, once again guest hosting The BradCast. I’m numb today, as there was yet another mass shooting overnight. This one was at a Fed Ex facility in Indianapolis. The shooter, a 19-year old former employee, killed eight people before turning the gun on himself.
That follows another cop killing another Black kid, another school shooting, and another mass shooting before that…all within the last few weeks. And that’s a non-exhaustive list.
I live in Coral Springs, FL. We’re next door to Parkland, with whom we share Fire and Police departments. Obviously, we know from mass shootings down here.
My congressman is TED DEUTCH. Since the massacre of 17 students and staff at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School three years ago, Congressman Deutch has really stepped up his game on trying to do something about our national gun problem.
He was a guest on my own show Monday, and given the latest swarm of shootings, I thought that would be a good segment to include today.
Yesterday, I awoke to a story at The Intercept from RYAN GRIM, who reported that a group of progressive members of Congress were going to, on Friday, introduce a plan to expand the Supreme Court from its current nine members to 13. He joins us today to put that story into context, to explain why the PRO Act is so important, and a bit about the possibility of DC statehood anytime soon.
