'BradCast' 12/15/2016: (Power Grab: GOP coup in NC, as Dems still bringing butter knives to gun fights)
b"An unprecedented attempted power grab is now underway at the capitol in Raleigh, North Carolina, where Republican lawmakers, stinging from having lost the Governorship and their majority on the state's Supreme Court, have convened an "emergency session" to strip power from the incoming Democratic Governor. The naked coup by the GOP -- which already enjoys a super majority in both chambers of the statehouse -- takes away Executive Branch powers previously granted to the outgoing Republican Governor. If successful, it would also strip the incoming Democratic Governor of control of state and county boards of election and keep Republican state employees in place across many state agencies. All of that, after a federal court recently ordered new special elections for the legislature in 2017,\\xa0 finding that they unconstitutionally gerrymandered state districts following the 2010 census. With a similarly unprecedented coup at the federal level -- for example, the stolen U.S. Supreme Court majority -- Republicans in a number of other states are quickly working to pass laws to make it harder for Democrats to take part in elections around the nation. Finally, Desi Doyen joins us for the latest 'Green News Report' with details on Trump's disturbing new appointments at federal agencies, the EPA's admission that fracking can harm drinking water supplies, and the Arctic unraveling before our eyes..."