'BradCast' 4/24/2018 (Guest: Legal journalist Mark Joseph Stern)
b"Legal journalist MARK JOSEPH STERN of Slate joins us for a legal lightning round on a number of big cases being heard this week and in recent weeks at the U.S. Supreme Court, as well as a number of other important cases: The years-long challenge to Texas Republicans' racial gerrymandering of Congressional and state house districts; Donald Trump's controversial anti-Muslim travel ban(s); the pending fate of two separate challenges to partisan gerrymandering heard recently by SCOTUS; the "train wreck" federal trial of KS Sec. of State and "voter fraud" fraudster Kris Kobach;\\xa0 and several more crucial cases from federal courts around the country. Stern cautions that a recent favorable ruling on an immigration law from Justice Neal Gorsuch, who enjoys the seat stolen for him by Senate Republicans last year, may actually signal a broader, more disturbing scheme down the road by Trump's far rightwing appointee.\\xa0 Also today: The Trump Administration's failure to vet nominees and appointees \\u2013 from the arrest of an FCC broadband commission member for fraud and forgery, to Trump's nominee to head the Veterans Administration, Navy Admiral Ronny Jackson, now under intense scrutiny from Senators of both parties. In the bargain, at the White House today, Trump appeared to begin the process of throwing Jackson under the nearest bus.\\xa0 Desi Doyen has our latest 'Green News Report', along with a tribute to 'Schoolhouse Rock' creator Bob Dorough, who died today at the age of 94..."