'BradCast' 10/28/2020 (Guest: Mark Joseph Stern on Trump's SCOTUS Election Trump Cards)
On today's 'BradCast':\xa0 A bad day for Trump -- 'Anonymous' revealed himself as Miles Taylor, Chief of Staff of Trump's own Dept. of Homeland Security, who has endorsed Joe Bien.\xa0 The stock market sank over the unchecked third-peak surge in the U.S. COVID pandemic. Hackers defaced Trump's campaign website. Twenty former Republican US Attorneys endorsed Biden. Trump abandoned his supporters to frigid temperatures in Omaha, NE after his latest super-spreader rally. But Trump still has a few Trump Cards that he believes, with good reason, will secure his re-election:\xa0 his stolen and corrupt U.S. Supreme Court. Slate's ace legal reporter MARK JOSEPH STERN explains the ways that Trump is trying to use the courts to block timely-cast ballots from being counted at all after Election Day, and a scheme that is based in the latest concurrence filed by former GOP operative-turned-GOP activist Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.\xa0 Kavanaugh's opinion, blocking Wisconsin from counting legitimate but late-arriving mail-in ballots, is full of demonstrable, laughable, egregious errors of fact. But worse, it cites the rejected Bush v. Gore opinion from the Florida 2000 election debacle that handed the election to George W. Bush, despite that ruling specifically stating it can never be used as precedent. Stern describes the several ways in which that radical ruling could be the Trump Card that helps Republicans steal this year's election. Stern also offers his thoughts on Biden's call for a bi-partisan commission to study the court expansion and reform (if Democrats win both the White House and the Senate), and a federal court ruling rejecting the Justice Department's absurd attempt to derail a defamation lawsuit against Trump by columnist E. Jean Carroll.