'BradCast' 6/21/2018 (Guest: Legal reporter Mark Joseph Stern)
b"First up today:\\xa0 Updates on the Trump-induced child immigration crisis that continues to unfold, including disturbing new reports that have emerged of unspeakable abuse at two federally-contracted facilities.\\xa0 An Executive Order signed by the President fails to address family reunification for more than 2,300 children separated from their parents. The effects of Trump's retaliatory tariffs are quietly playing out in the background, with farmers \\u2013 some of the biggest supporters of Trump's candidacy in 2016 -- among the hardest-hit victims of his new trade wars. Back in 1988, Ronald Reagan warned: "We should beware of the demagogues who are ready to declare a trade war...all while cynically waving the American flag." Mark Joseph Stern, legal reporter from Slate, explains the bevy of U.S. Supreme Court rulings on a number of major cases handed down in advance of their planned summer recess next week. Among the cases we discuss today:\\xa0 strange bedfellows among the justices in their 5 to 4 decision allowing states to impose sales taxes on all online purchases; a little reported death penalty case out of South Dakota, where a jury sentenced a man to death because the jury feared, as a gay man, he'd \\u201cenjoy\\u201d life in prison too much; Kansas Sec. of State Kris Kobach appears to be violating more court orders; and a preview of how the Court may rule on upcoming, hugely consequential cases still yet to be announced. Plus Desi Doyen with the latest \\u2018Green News Report', including the 30th anniversary of Dr. James Hansen's first dire warning to Congress in 1988 about the danger of global warming..."