'BradCast' 12/15/2020 (Guest: Legal reporter Mark Joseph Stern on SCOTUS and failed GOP efforts to use courts to steal the election)
On today's 'BradCast':\xa0 The Republican Party now seems to be eating itself alive in the wake of Trump's loss. Sore loser Donald Trump promoted a message calling for Georgia state GOP officials to be jailed. Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell finally recognized President-Elect Joe Biden's win, in the wake of Monday's Electoral College vote confirming his 'landslide' victory, and the US Supreme Court's unanimous rejection of Texas' radical lawsuit attempting to overturn the election results of four other states. Will there be any accountability for Congressional Republicans and wingnut state Attorneys General in joining the frivolous and arguably 'seditious' attempt to undermine democracy? Ace legal reporter MARK JOSEPH STERN of Slate explains the potential consequences for those Republicans, and a slew of other Supreme Court rulings handed down in the last week, including a decision rejecting Indiana's years-long effort to strip same-sex couples of their parental rights. Stern also discusses the pathetic legacy of Kansas's failed vote fraudster, Kris Kobach, and delivers a scathing assessment of disgraced rightwinger U.S. Attorney General and Trump fixer, Bill Barr. Stern deconstructs the radical, unprecedented legal theory promoted by the Texas state attorney general in his Supreme Court lawsuit attempting to overturn the 2020 election, which would nullify all election laws and regulations unless expressly enacted by state legislature, overturning centuries of American democracy and voting rights, with broad ramifications for all sorts of other laws...