'BradCast' 3/21/2022 (Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson Senate confirmation hearings; Russia-Ukraine update)
On today's 'BradCast':\xa0 We lurch again between domestic politics and the hope for peace to emerge in Ukraine. 73-year old judicial activist and corrupt dark money champion Justice Clarence Thomas was hospitalized on Friday but is expected to recover. U.S. Senate confirmation hearings began for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, President Biden's nominee to fill the seat on the U.S. Supreme Court being vacated by Justice Stephen Breyer. Jackson would be the first African-American woman on the Court, as well as the first justice to have served as a public defender. She vowed to carry out her new role on SCOTUS with transparency and 'without fear or favor'. Democratic senators noted that Jackson's nomination is not the result of years of dark money spent by rightwing activist political hustlers. Russia's horrific war on Ukraine grinds on, with the Russian military escalating its war crimes against Ukraine's besieged but determined civilian population, amid new concerns about radiation levels at the Russian-military occupied Chernobyl nuclear disaster site. New polling finds that Biden's actions in response to the war in Ukraine are wildly popular among a majority of Americans, both Democrats and Republicans alike. So why are Biden's approval ratings still so low?\xa0 Callers weigh in on all of the above...