'BradCast' 4/7/2017: (Guest: Slate's Mark Joseph Stern)
The world and the U.S. Congress respond to Trump's bombing of Syria earlier this morning, as Republicans in the Senate finalize their theft of the U.S. Supreme Court by confirming Judge Neil Gorsuch with a simple majority vote after holding the seat open for an unprecedented 14 months. While many in the corporate media are joining a number of world leaders and members of Congress in celebrating Donald Trump's cruise missile attack on a Syrian air base days after a chemical weapons attack in the country, Russia is citing the action as an act of "aggression" in violation of international law, and a number of Congress members, both Republican and Democratic, in both the House and Senate, are citing Trump's attack as "an act of war" that is unlawful under the U.S. Constitution. Then, in the wake of a landmark Civil Rights Act ruling this week by the full 7th Circuit Court of Appeals (where most of the judges were appointed by Republicans and considered quite conservative), Mark Joseph Stern, legal reporter at Slate, joins us to explain why he sees the decision as a precedent-setting "thunderbolt" for civil rights and the LGBTQ community. He also discusses what to expect when and if the case is heard by what he considers to be a 'stolen' Supreme Court, in the wake of the GOP's illegitimate confirmation of Gorsuch to the high court. Finally, Desi Doyen joins us with the latest 'Green News Report' with an unconscionable corporate media failure, and as the U.S. House Science committee uses McCarthy-esque tactics to put science itself on trial...