{"id":14704,"date":"2023-06-26T18:17:58","date_gmt":"2023-06-27T01:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=14704"},"modified":"2023-06-26T19:26:25","modified_gmt":"2023-06-27T02:26:25","slug":"us-courts-are-holding-and-russia-isteetering-bradcast-6262023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/?p=14704","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Courts Are Holding and Russia is&#8230;Teetering?: &#8216;BradCast&#8217; 6\/26\/2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/BradCast_JohnRoberts-VladimirPutin_062623.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">Welp, it was another slow news weekend [insert eyes-rolling emoji here]. But we try to come up with <i>something<\/i> to cover on today&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/BradCast\"><i>BradCast<\/i><\/a> nonetheless. [<i>Audio link to full show is posted below this summary.<\/i>]<\/p>\n<p>Among the <i>many<\/i> stories covered on today&#8217;s program&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Extreme weather and warnings of same <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2023\/jun\/24\/texas-heatwave-high-temperatures-power\">walloping<\/a> much of the nation today, as two weeks of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxweather.com\/weather-news\/historic-heat-wave-texas-southwest\">historic triple digit temperatures<\/a> in <b>Texas<\/b> spread to other states, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2023\/6\/26\/indiana-tornadoes-kill-one-damage-homes-in-us-midwest\">resulting in<\/a> major storms, deadly tornadoes, widespread power outages and <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/severe-storms-east-coast-deadly-tornadoes-midwest\/story?id=100373649\">cancelled flights<\/a> from <b>Arizona<\/b> through the <b>mid-west<\/b> up into <b>New England<\/b> and down to the <b>Carolinas<\/b> and <b>Florida<\/b>. But if you hear about these seemingly ever-worsening nightmares from some major U.S. outlets &#8212; like <b>Fox &#8220;News&#8221;<\/b> (and even ABC, etc.) &#8212; you may hear absolutely nothing about the man-made climate change that is fueling our intensifying global crisis. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>On Friday, Politico finally covered the story that we broke on this show six weeks ago about how <b>Georgia<\/b> Sec. of State <b>Brad Raffensperger<\/b> says he will <i>not<\/i> be installing urgently recommended security upgrades to its horribly vulnerable Dominion voting systems until <i>after<\/i> the 2024 Presidential election in the critical battleground state. We covered that news exclusively <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=14659\">here in mid-May<\/a>. Politico covered it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2023\/06\/23\/brad-raffensperger-georgia-dominion-voting-00103298\">here on Friday<\/a>. And my tweet pointing both out was throttled by Twitter over the weekend so that it&#8217;s nearly impossible to find without a direct link. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheBradBlog\/status\/1672232795991851009\">That is here<\/a>. (More, hopefully, on this issue tomorrow!)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Speaking of <b>Georgia<\/b>, a federal judge has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2023-06-23\/giuliani-ordered-to-pay-georgia-election-workers-attorney-fees?sref=6et1qv7R&#038;leadSource=uverify%20wall#xj4y7vzkg\">ordered<\/a> <b>Rudy Giuliani<\/b> to pay the legal fees for the two Atlanta election workers &#8212; <b>Shaye Moss<\/b> and her elderly mother <b>Ruby Freeman<\/b> &#8212; who are suing him for defamation after he (and Trump, and the rest of the MAGA crew) <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/probe-finds-allegations-election-fraud-mother-daughter-poll\/story?id=100250712\">falsely<\/a> accused them of committing fraud in the ballot tabulation room during the 2020 Presidential election. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Curiously enough, the far-right, wildly corrupted <b>U.S. Supreme Court<\/b> keeps making <i>not<\/i> terrible rulings at the end of this year&#8217;s term. Today, a challenge to a ruling on a case out of <b>Louisiana<\/b>, where a federal court mandated an additional black majority U.S. House district, was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/legal\/us-supreme-court-tosses-race-based-dispute-over-louisiana-electoral-map-2023-06-26\/\">rejected<\/a>. The case will be sent back to a lower court. If the lower court rules as SCOTUS did a few weeks ago &#8212; when they <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/lifestyle\/supreme-court-shocks-everyone-5-151000395.html\">stunned the world<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/news-and-politics\/2023\/06\/john-roberts-brett-kavanaugh-save-voting-rights-act.html\">upholding the Voting Rights Act<\/a> and requiring another black majority House district in <b>Alabama<\/b> &#8212; today&#8217;s decision <i>could<\/i> be very good news for those that care about voting rights, the Constitution, and equal representation for all.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Also today, SCOTUS <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/supreme-court-ohio-state-abuse-richard-strauss-57b547932ffeaa015c6f85a994276e32?taid=64999d77c41de800013d277c&#038;utm_campaign=TrueAnthem&#038;utm_medium=AP&#038;utm_source=Twitter\">allowed several lawsuits<\/a> against <b>Ohio State University<\/b> to proceed, after it was discovered the school had, for years, protected a serial sexual abuser who served as a team doctor for years. This is probably not good news for OSU&#8217;s former wrestling coach and serial denier Rep. <b>Jim Jordan<\/b> (R-OH).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The lower courts are holding as well, for now. Last week, a federal judge <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aclu.org\/press-releases\/federal-judge-overturns-arkansas-ban-on-gender-affirming-care-for-transgender-youth\">permanently overturned<\/a> <b>Arkansas<\/b>&#8216; unspeakably cruel ban on gender-affirming medical care for transgender kids, and a federal judge in <strong>Florida<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2023\/06\/23\/federal-judge-blocks-florida-from-enforcing-ban-on-minors-attending-drag-shows-00103461#\">temporarily blocked<\/a> Gov. <b>Ron DeSantis<\/b>&#8216; <i>anti<\/i>-freedom crusade to ban minors from attending drag shows. Amusingly, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/politics-news\/florida-anti-drag-law-desantis-judge-blocks-1234777377\/\">one of the reasons<\/a> the judge blocked the new law was because it was in conflict with DeSantis&#8217; so-called &#8220;Parents Bill of Rights&#8221; legislation adopted in 2021.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Finally today, before opening the phones to listeners, we discuss the bizarre story of whatever the hell happened over the weekend in <b>Russia<\/b> where, for about 24 hours or so, civil war nearly broke out. That, as <b>Yevgeny Prigozhin<\/b>, formerly a close ally of <b>Vladimir Putin<\/b> and commander of the mercenary Wagner Group (arguably Russia&#8217;s best fighting force in <b>Ukraine<\/b>), declared Russia&#8217;s justification for attacking Ukraine &#8212; to demilitarize and de-Nazify the sovereign nation &#8212; to be a lie. Wagner&#8217;s march toward Moscow, however, <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/russia-ukraine-war-wagner-prigozhin-belarus-deal-6782455ddc4234816bfb2d7d388d8a9a\">ended as quickly as it began<\/a>, with Putin theoretically granting Prigozhin safe harbor in <b>Belarus<\/b>, even if both his future and those of the troops in the Wagner brigade remain uncertain at this hour. We open the phones with what is left of today&#8217;s show to discuss what the hell is going on and where both Russia and Putin&#8217;s  fortunes may be heading from here&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\".\/Images\/Speaker_Icon_24.png\" style=\"width: 24px; float: none; vertical-align: middle;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px; line-height: 18px;\"> <b><i><a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/audio\/BradCast_BradFriedman-ExtremeHeatStorms-ClimateEmergency-CourtsHolding-RussiaCivilWar_062623.mp3\">CLICK TO LISTEN OR DOWNLOAD SHOW!&#8230;<\/a><\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><center><b>* * *<\/b><\/center><i>While we post <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/BradCast\"><\/i>The BradCast<i><\/a> here every day, and you can hear it across all of our great affiliate stations and websites, to automagically get new episodes as soon as they&#8217;re available sent right to your computer or personal device, subscribe for free at <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-bradcast-w-brad-friedman\/id803467610\">iTunes<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pandora.com\/podcast\/the-bradcast-w-brad-friedman\/PC:1000025838\">Pandora<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/The-BradCast-with-Brad-Friedman-p477565\/\">TuneIn<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.google.com\/feed\/aHR0cHM6Ly9icmFkYmxvZy5jb20vcG9kY2FzdGdlbi9icmFkY2FzdC9mZWVkLnhtbA\">Google<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-BradCast-w-Brad-Friedman\/dp\/B08JJRN86R\/ref=sr_1_1\">Amazon<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/podcastgen\/bradcast\/feed.xml\">our native RSS feed<\/a>!<\/i><\/p>\n<p><center><i><b>* * *<\/b><\/i><\/center><center><\/p>\n<table cellspacing=\"0\">\n<tr style=\"background: blue; color:white;\">\n<td width=\"50%\"><center><span class=\"footnote\"><b>MONTHLY BRAD BLOG SUBSCRIPTION<\/b><\/span><\/td>\n<td width=\"50%\"><center><span class=\"footnote\"><b>ONE-TIME DONATION<\/b><\/span><\/center><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid blue;\"><center><\/p>\n<form action=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/cgi-bin\/webscr\" method=\"post\" target=\"_top\" style=\"margin-top:-3em; margin-bottom:2em;text-align:center;\"><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"cmd\" value=\"_s-xclick\"><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"hosted_button_id\" value=\"9PMSTMCJK9B3E\"><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"on0\" value=\"Choose monthly amount...\">Choose monthly amount&#8230;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><select name=\"os0\"><option value=\"$10\">$10 : $10.00 USD &#8211; monthly<\/option><option value=\"$20\">$20 : $20.00 USD &#8211; monthly<\/option><option value=\"$50\">$50 : $50.00 USD &#8211; monthly<\/option><option value=\"$100\">$100 : $100.00 USD &#8211; monthly<\/option><\/select> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"currency_code\" value=\"USD\"><input type=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paypalobjects.com\/en_US\/i\/btn\/btn_subscribe_LG.gif\" border=\"0\" name=\"submit\" alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online!\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paypalobjects.com\/en_US\/i\/scr\/pixel.gif\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\"><\/form>\n<p><\/center><\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid blue;\"><center><\/p>\n<form action=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/cgi-bin\/webscr\" method=\"post\" target=\"_top\" style=\"margin-top:0em; margin-bottom:2em;text-align:center;\"><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"cmd\" value=\"_s-xclick\"><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"hosted_button_id\" value=\"K5A5LX7J6WTHQ\"><input type=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paypalobjects.com\/en_US\/i\/btn\/btn_donateCC_LG.gif\" border=\"0\" name=\"submit\" alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online!\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paypalobjects.com\/en_US\/i\/scr\/pixel.gif\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"footnote\">(Snail mail support to <b>&#8220;Brad Friedman, 7095 Hollywood Blvd., #594 Los Angeles, CA 90028<\/b>&#8221; always welcome too!)<\/div>\n<p><\/center><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welp, it was another slow news weekend [insert eyes-rolling emoji here]. But we try to come up with something to cover on today&#8217;s BradCast nonetheless. [Audio link to full show is posted below this summary.] Among the many stories covered on today&#8217;s program&#8230; Extreme weather and warnings of same walloping much of the nation today, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1860,1273,675,543,442,969,1611,548,1425,477,771,534,698,628,517,1896],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-belarus","category-brad-raffensperger","category-bradcast","category-climate-change","category-dominion-voting","category-election-2020","category-election-2024","category-extreme-weather","category-jim-jordan","category-kpfk","category-race","category-russia","category-ukraine","category-vladamir-putin","category-voting-rights-act","category-yevgeny-prigozhin"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}