{"id":12198,"date":"2017-06-26T18:29:35","date_gmt":"2017-06-27T01:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=12198"},"modified":"2018-02-09T19:59:50","modified_gmt":"2018-02-10T03:59:50","slug":"scotus-rulings-on-trump-travel-ban-wi-partisan-gerrymandering-more-bradcast-6262017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/?p=12198","title":{"rendered":"SCOTUS Rulings on Trump ‘Travel Ban’, WI Partisan Gerrymandering, More: ‘BradCast’ 6\/26\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

On today’s BradCast<\/i><\/a>, the stolen U.S. Supreme Court begins to pay dividends for Republicans and the GOP’s deadly Senate healthcare legislation continues to take much-deserved heat from all sides, including doctors, Nobel laureate economists and now the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office. [Audio link to show is posted below.<\/i>]<\/p>\n

But, first up today, Kansas Sec. of State Kris Kobach, the long-time “voter fraud” fraudster who has been tapped to head up President Trump’s so-called “Election Integrity Commission” (actually, a voter suppression<\/i> commission), has been sanctioned<\/a> by a federal court for “deceptive conduct” in the ACLU’s case against his attempted proof-of-citizenship voter registration restrictions. That’s almost the best news we have on tap today, though we do manage to find a few bright spots here and there.<\/p>\n

The CBO on Monday came out with its score<\/a> of the Senate Republicans’ legislation to repeal the Affordable Care Act (“ObamaCare”) and finds it will result in 22 million fewer Americans<\/a> having access to health care coverage by 2026, with 15 million losing coverage in 2018<\/a> alone! Despite that, and with still more groups (now including both the American Medical Association<\/a> and a group of Nobel Prize winning economists<\/a>) excoriating the Republican bill, Senate leadership still vows<\/a> a vote before the July 4th holiday recess this week<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the U.S. Supreme Court session came to a close on Monday, with the Court allowing<\/a> some of Trump’s Executive Order “travel ban” to be implemented in advance of a full hearing now scheduled for next October, when the Court’s new session begins, in what my guest today describes as a “qualified victory” for the Administration. The Supremes also issued a ruling<\/a> today requiring state officials to allow same-sex parents to be listed on birth certificates, and scheduled a hearing<\/a> for next session regarding businesses who choose to discriminate against same-sex couples, in what my guest, legal journalist MARK JOSEPH STERN<\/b> of Slate.com<\/a>, describes as a case that could seriously imperil non-discrimination laws for the LGBTQ community and become a full-blown “constitutional catastrophe” in the bargain. Stern argues that the birth certificate opinion reveals the position of Justice Neil Gorsuch (“he of the stolen seat”), to be “a surefire vote against LGBTQ rights” and “just as bad” as the late Antonin Scalia on such matters.<\/p>\n

Then, with a new study from AP<\/a> finding extreme partisan gerrymandering accounted for some 22 Republican U.S. House victories in 2016 and untold number of GOP state legislative victories, we discuss SCOTUS announcements from last week in two free-speech cases and a related Court ruling issued<\/a> on a rather massive case of unconstitutional partisan gerrymandering<\/a> in Wisconsin.<\/p>\n

That case, as Stern describes, could have an impact on American elections as far reaching as Citizens United<\/i> but, depending on how the Court rules, in a positive<\/i> direction for those of us who give a damn about free and fair democratic representation and elections. On the other hand, if the stolen majority on the Court decides the wrong<\/i> way, it could result in our embarrassing system of “democracy” becoming even more so.<\/p>\n

Finally today, we close with a much needed laugh regarding some “100% unverifiable” listener email…<\/p>\n

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