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b"On today's 'BradCast':\\xa0 The House Select Committee investigating the Trump-incited January 6th insurrection at the US Capitol voted unanimously to hold Steve Bannon in criminal contempt of Congress for refusing to answer their subpoena. Senate Democrats are reportedly close to reaching a deal on a path forward to passing President Biden's Build Back Better Act. Senate Republicans filibustered voting rights legislation for the third time this year. Slate's legal reporter and U.S. Supreme Court expert, MARK JOSEPH STERN, explains the draft report issued late last week, with remarkably little coverage by the corporate media, by President Biden's blue ribbon panel of academics tasked with examining potential reforms for SCOTUS following its years-long bastardization and theft by the Republican Party. Stern discusses the conclusions of the commission's draft report, which could change before the final version is released, on questions of expanding the Supreme Court, the concept of judicial term limits, and the many reasons why public confidence in the court has crashed to levels unprecedented in modern history. He also explains the legal roller coaster of Texas' blatantly unconstitutional new anti-abortion law. Stern notes that no other country in the world bestows as much power on its high court as the U.S. does, and the rest of the world has wisely chosen not to follow the U.S. model of lifetime appointments. He warns 'we should all be terrified...if we choose not to expand the court... we are going to have to live with this current conservative super-majority for years, if not decades.'"