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b"On today's 'BradCast':\\xa0 The Republicans' stolen and packed U.S. Supreme Court struck down the Biden Administration's test-or-vaccinate mandate for large employers, while narrowly approving a vaccine mandate for healthcare workers. The ruling comes amid a surge of the Omicron variant that is causing hospitalizations and deaths to spike to new record levels. The Los Angeles County Health Director warned the public to avoid non-essential public gatherings for a few more weeks until the current wave peaks to ease pressure on overwhelmed hospitals, citing hopeful data suggesting the COVID wave may quickly subside. But the non-medical experts in the rightwing majority on the U.S. Supreme Court seem dead set on preventing actual experts charged with protecting workers from doing so. The absurd ruling was countered by a scathing and furious dissent from the court's three liberal justices, who noted the rightwing majority is unelected and accountable to no one, and derided their rightwing colleagues for asserting their non-expert medical opinion over the actual experts in the Executive Branch agency that Congress mandated, by explicit statue, to protect Americans in the workplace. Three of the court's rightwingers also advanced a discredited legal theory, the 'major questions' doctrine, which seeks to strip federal agencies of the authority to regulate when there is a 'major question' --- an ominous sign for an upcoming challenge to EPA regulations next month. Also today: the founder and leader of the far-right Oath Keepers militia and ten others were charged with 'seditious conspiracy' for their role in the Trump-incited Jan. 6 Capitol Insurrection. Plus Desi Doyen has our latest 'Green News Report.'"