'BradCast' 5/19/2023 (Encore: Dan Vicuna/Common Cause on NC partisan gerrymandering ruling; SCOTUS case challenges federal agency authority)
b"Encore: original air-date 5/1/2023. On today's 'BradCast':\\xa0 The rightwing supermajority on the U.S. Supreme Court has two different plans for potentially overturning decades of established precedent on federal elections and the power of federal agencies. In North Carolina, the state supreme court's new rightwing majority has taken the unprecedented step of rehearing and reversing a previous court ruling, handed down just months ago, that blocked partisan gerrymandered maps. What does this unprecedented reversal at the NC state Supreme Court mean for the U.S. Supreme Court's pending ruling in 'Moore v. Harper'?\\xa0 DAN VICUNA, national redistricting manager at Common Cause, the plaintiffs in a landmark U.S. Supreme Court case challenging North Carolina's earlier gerrymandered maps, explains. The Supreme Court also announced it will take up a case next year that could overturn the 'Chevron Doctrine', a decades-old precedent that requires courts to defer to federal agency expertise when creating rules and regulations via laws passed by Congress, like the Clean Air Act.\\xa0 Conservative business groups and Republicans have sought for decades to undermine and dismantle federal agencies' authority to craft regulations that curb pollution and rein in corporations. But the corrupted, packed and stolen rightwing SCOTUS now appears ready to 'dismantle the administrative state' on everything from the climate crisis to health care to immigration and beyond.\\xa0 Callers weigh in."