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b"On today's 'BradCast':\\xa0 Trump loses another attempt to undermine the Affordable Care Act in court. Wisconsin faces a very important election next Tuesday that could ultimately result in finally restoring a progressive-leaning majority to its state Supreme Court -- wildly important for both the state and the nation. Then: In 2016, Senate Republicans stole what should have been a Democratic majority on the U.S. Supreme Court when GOP Senate Leader Mitch McConnell held the seat vacant for a year, refusing to hold a vote on President Obama's nominee, and then changed Senate rules to kill the judicial filibuster, enabling McConnell to install rightwingers Neil Gorsuch and accused sexual-predator Brett Kavanaugh. Many progressives are now calling for the expansion of SCOTUS if Democrats can regain control of the U.S. House, Senate and White House in 2020 to restore a liberal-leaning majority that arguably should have been theirs in 2016. McConnell is already decrying the idea, ironically describing it as "an unprincipled power grab...that would threaten the rule of law and our American Judicial system." Wisconsin attorney and former state Supreme Court nominee TIM BURNS explains the little-known history of "court packing" in the U.S., and debunks false and misleading claims by McConnell and Republicans about the several times in US history that the size of SCOTUS has been changed by both the legislative and executive branches, frequently in response to the out-sized growth of corporate power.\\xa0 Burns describes what actually happened in the 1930s when the Court was ultimately not expanded under FDR, in a fascinating bit of lost history. He places new calls to expand the Court today into a very enlightening perspective as the debate kicks off in the nation and among Democrats vying for the 2020 Presidential nomination...."