'BradCast' 2/22/2017 (Encouraging news from courts and elsewhere, w/ Attorney Mark Joseph Stern of Slate)
As dark as yesterday's show was, today is somewhat the opposite, with a whole bunch of encouraging news from the courts and the people across these United States. Attorney and legal journalist Mark Joseph Stern of Slate.com joins us to break down the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals' potentially landmark ruling upholding the state of Maryland's ban on semi-automatic 'weapons of war', and the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling today on a race-based death penalty case out of Texas. Also today: A federal court in TX blocks the state's attempt to defund Planned Parenthood. NC's Democratic governor moves to withdraw the state's appeal to SCOTUS, filed by his Republican predecessor in hopes of overturning a federal court ruling finding the state's election reform law was unconstitutional. An FEC commissioner refuses to back down in the face of threats from a Koch Brothers-funded group after she called to see Trump's alleged evidence of illegal voting in NH. New poll finds Trump approval ratings 'sinking like a rock'. Muslim group raises $90,000 to help repair a desecrated Jewish cemetery in St. Louis, MO. And the people continue to exercise democracy by showing up in huge numbers at Congressmember town halls across the country...