'BradCast' 3/21/2017 (Guest: Peter M. Shane of Moritz College of Law)
b"Donald Trump's U.S. Supreme Court nominee faced questions all day today in the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee - but what is Judge Neil Gorsuch doing there at all? Donald Trump's pick to fill the seat, left vacant by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia more than a year ago, represents a stolen seat on a stolen U.S. Supreme Court. If he is confirmed, Republicans will be rewarded for their theft with a majority on the high court for another generation. We've been wrestling with how to cover the hearings, given that normal coverage seems to normalize a decidedly abnormal and unprecedented situation. Professor Peter M. Shane of Ohio State University's Moritz College of Law joins us to try to make sense of the situation, in which it appears that neither Democrats nor corporate media to date have offered any kind of institutional penalty for the blatant and brazen theft by the GOP. Also today: while Congressional hearings have taken over the week, Republicans are busy making changes to their scheme to replace the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) by making it even crueler for poor Americans and adding even more kickbacks for wealthy ones, in hopes of winning passage in the U.S. House, where they plan to ram it through for a floor vote later this week. Finally: A majority of Americans are unable to name even a single Supreme Court Justice, and the tax-payer cost for Trump's constant weekend vacations could cover four federal programs for the arts, the elderly, the jobless and the homeless that his budge proposal hopes to slash entirely..."