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On today's 'BradCast':\xa0 A landmark United Nations report warns that 1 million of the planet's animal and plant species are now threatened with extinction, many within decades, thanks to human development and consumption that leaves land species with "insufficient habitat for long-term survival," but its authors stress there is still time to act to reverse the trend. Trump roils global markets with tweets threatening to escalate his trade tariff war with China. A few honest conservatives debunk Trump's lies on the trade war, noting that Americans, not China, pay the higher costs, and he has harmed rather than helped the U.S. economy. The Trump Administration announced it is deploying an aircraft carrier battle group to the Persian Gulf to ratchet up pressure on Iran. Some 400 former federal prosecutors -- both Republican and Democratic -- published an open later declaring that Trump would have been indicted on felony obstruction of justice were it not for the Justice Department prohibition against indicting a sitting president. The House Judiciary Committee will vote to hold Trump Attorney General William Barr in contempt of Congress charges after his failure to produce the full, unredacted Mueller Report. Trump' Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin has rejected a lawful Congressional request to produce Donald Trump's tax returns as required by law. Trump's former personal lawyer Michael Cohen began a three year federal prison sentence for lying to Congress and violating campaign finance laws at Trump's direction. Florida Republican state lawmakers passed a bill to undermine the state's new, voter-approved constitutional amendment restoring voting rights to most former felons. Attorney and BradBlog.com contributor ERNEST A. CANNING explains his insightful op-ed arguing that the notion of "inmate vote is not a radical idea," and policies barring inmates from voting while incarcerated is unjust and hypocritical, in the nation that incarcerates more of its own citizens than any other.