'BradCast 6/14/2022 (Guest: Supreme Court expert Mark Joseph Stern)
b"On today's 'BradCast':\\xa0 A bipartisan bill to extend security protections to family members of Supreme Court justices swiftly passed in Congress, demonstrating that Republicans are able to pass laws to protect certain people from gun violence, but everyone else in America is on their own. Primaries are underway in Maine, Nevada, North Dakota and South Carolina. The U.S. House Select Committee investigating January 6 postponed Wednesday's hearing into Donald Trump's efforts to corrupt the Justice Department in his scheme to steal the 2020 election. The great MARK JOSEPH STERN, legal journalist and Supreme Court expert at Slate.com, reports on a whole passel of recent and coming-soon opinions that are shaking/about to shake the American legal system to its core. Stern explains how the rightwing super-majority's ruling in the tragic case of a death row inmate could mean the end of the Sixth Amendment's guarantee of competent legal representation. Stern also delves into the disturbing implications of a Court decision allowing lower courts to overturn settled precedent and defy SCOTUS; the looming repeal of privacy rights that undergird reproductive rights, marriage equality, inter-racial marriage, contraceptives, and more; the likely end of state laws restricting concealed carry of firearms; a bonkers case that seeks to strip the EPA of authority to act on climate change; and ominous cases in the next term that could affect the outcome of the 2024 Presidential Election. Stern reveals brutal real facts and hard truths about the agenda of the Court's rightwing super-majority, warning that 'madness is coming, and all we can do is try to prepare for it as best we can.' Plus Desi Doyen has our latest 'Green News Report.'"