'BradCast' 1/3/2024 (Encore: Mark Joseph Stern on the Trump judges rebellion)

Published: Jan. 3, 2024, 11:18 p.m.

b"'The BradCast' was hit with Covid and will return with fresh new shows as soon as possible! Original airdate 12-13-2023. On today's 'BradCast':\\xa0 Slate legal journalist MARK JOSEPH STERN explains how far-right, lower-court appointees of disgraced former president Donald Trump are undermining voting rights and the US Supreme Court itself. Stern also delves into the Supreme Court's announcements that they will hear a case challenging a drug widely used in medical abortions, and a lawsuit to overturn a federal law used to charge hundreds of January 6 insurrectionists, including Trump himself, that could seriously delay his criminal trial in D.C.\\xa0 On Wednesday, the judge put that case on hold until Trump's ridiculous immunity appeal is resolved. Also today:\\xa0 the stock market soared after the Federal Reserve indicated it will lower interest rates next year as inflation continues to fall. The GOP-controlled U.S. House of Representatives voted along party lines to open an impeachment inquiry against President Joe Biden, despite no evidence of any crimes or wrongdoing. House Republicans again refused to accept Hunter Biden's offer to testify in a public hearing."