'BradCast' 4/19/2022 (Encore: Legal journalist Mark Joseph Stern on SCOTUS, corruption, gerrymandering)

Published: April 19, 2022, 9:29 p.m.

b"Encore: original air-date 3/30/2022. On today's 'BradCast': A major new peer-reviewed study adds to the large body of scientific evidence showing conclusively that the anti-parasitic drug Ivermectin provides no benefit as a treatment for COVID. MARK JOSEPH STERN, legal journalist from Slate, explains recent developments at the US Supreme Court. Stern debunks Senate Republicans' outrageous smears of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, and warns of recent, very disturbing comments showing that, on top of ending abortion rights under Roe vs. Wade, Republicans will seek to overturn landmark civil liberties rulings guaranteeing marriage equality for inter-racial and same-sex couples, and access to birth control. Republicans have also explicitly stated that, if they regain majority control of the Senate, they will block all future judicial nominees at all levels that are nominated by a Democratic president. Stern also weighs in on explosive new revelations that corrupt Justice Clarence Thomas appears to have voted to shield his own wife, far-rightwing activist Ginni Thomas, from legal scrutiny under the House January 6 committee investigation, and explains the Court's 'shadow docket' ruling giving Wisconsin Republicans blatantly discriminatory gerrymandered district maps for the U.S. House."