'BradCast' 4/9/2021 (Guest: SCOTUS expert Ian Millhiser; Amazon's unionization vote in AL)

Published: April 10, 2021, 1:10 a.m.

On today's 'BradCast':\xa0 The unionization vote at Amazon's warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama apparently lost by a nearly 2-to-1 margin, after the company spent millions in a campaign to scare and misinform its workers. The union charges that the nation's second largest private employer violated labor laws in its campaign to propagandize workers at the facility, and will file a challenge with the National Labor Relations Board. President Joe Biden's new executive order establishes a bi-partisan Presidential Commission to examine potential reforms of the federal judiciary and the U.S. Supreme Court. Any actual reforms to SCOTUS would likely require ending or modifying the Senate filibuster, which Lord Joe Manchin (D-WV) has so far prohibited. That works out great for the Republican Party, which appears to have no actual principles, governing philosophy or legislative agenda beyond suppressing voting rights to entrench themselves in power. Republicans don't actually need a legislative agenda, according to IAN MILLHISER, Supreme Court expert, author, and senior correspondent at Vox.com, who explains that the GOP's policies are being carried out by their stolen-and-packed rightwing Supreme Court majority.\xa0 Millhiser runs down the extraordinary agenda that activist jurists at SCOTUS have accomplished on behalf of Republicans over the last decade, warning there is much more to come, and details what voters can do to push reform of our broken judiciary and protect our democracy from those who would destroy it. Also today: Former Republican House Speaker John Boehner in new book calls today's GOP 'unrecognizable,' and more. Plus:\xa0 Musical satirist Randy Rainbow skewers Republican Senators Ted Cruz and Lindsey Graham.