'BradCast' 4/17/2023 (Should Sen. Feinstein Step Down? Also: Democracy and accountability news from Russia to SCOTUS and beyond)
On today's 'BradCast':\xa0 New revelations about the relentless lawlessness of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas underscore the corruption of the GOP's rightwing takeover of the judiciary and their activist judges legislating from the bench. The Supreme Court placed a temporary administrative stay on unprecedented rulings by far-right activist U.S. District Judge Mathew Kacsmaryk and the far-right U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals overturning the FDA-approved use of abortion medication mifepristone in all 50 states. Democracy is under attack in Sudan, where deadly fighting has erupted between military factions. A court sentenced Russian-opposition leader Vladimir Kara-Murza to 25 years in prison for publicly opposing Putin's bloody invasion of Ukraine.\xa0 Congressional Democrats are increasingly voicing concerns about whether California's 89-year old Senior Democratic Senator Diane Feinstein, who has missed 60 of 80 floor votes in the U.S. Senate this year, should resign, because her extended medical absence from the Senate Judiciary Committee has stalled confirmation of President Biden's federal court judicial nominees.\xa0 We open the phones to listeners -- her constituents in Southern California -- for THEIR opinions on whether DiFi should stay or go.