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On today's 'BradCast':\xa0 Special coverage of the first round of the 2020 Democratic Presidential Debate from Miami. But first: two major, long-awaited opinions handed down by the Republican's stolen U.S. Supreme Court. The first, a 5-4 Republican vs. Democratic-appointee split, is very bad news for voters and democracy indeed on partisan gerrymandering. Chief Justice John Roberts declared federal courts have no place adjudicating disputes over extreme partisan gerrymandering of legislative districts, giving a green light to majority-party state lawmakers to cement power for themselves during the redistricting process, which is set to take place after the 2020 Census. In the minority dissent, Justice Elana Kagan noted that the rightwing majority's ruling leaves it to the same gerrymandered legislatures who created the undemocratic problem to rectify it, even though it may be impossible for opposition lawmakers to gain enough votes to actually change the process for fairer maps. In the second decision, Roberts joined with the court's Democratic appointees in a 5-4 split ruling that temporarily bars the Trump Administration from adding a question about citizenship to the 2020 Census, by sending it back to the lower court for further consideration. Recent evidence revealed that the Administration hoped to include the question with the intent to under-count immigrant communities, in order to shift billions of dollars in federal funding and voting power to "Republicans and non-Hispanic whites," and that the Trump Justice Department lied to Congress and the Courts about their real reason for adding the question. Then it's on to our special coverage of Night One of the first Democratic Debate of the 2020 Presidential cycle, with Salon's award-winning HEATHER 'DIGBY' PARTON and Seeing the Forest's DAVE JOHNSON, with insight and analysis on as many of the candidates and the issues as we can possibly fit in to an hour.