'BradCast' 7/2/2019 (Admin concedes loss in Census fight, and other signs of hope)

Published: July 3, 2019, 1:27 a.m.

b"On today's 'BradCast':\\xa0 A rough week in the federal courts for Donald Trump, but a huge victory for those of us who still support the idea of democracy -- as fragile as it remains in the U.S. on the eve of our Independence Day 2019. The Trump Administration has given up its racist attempt to add a citizenship question to the 2020 Census. House Democrats sue in federal court to force the Administration to turn over Donald Trump's tax returns, as required by federal law, but Trump may get help from his stolen and illegitimate SCOTUS. A federal judge has blocked Trump's phony "national emergency" declaration to steal billions of dollars from the military to build his border wall. Florida's Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed a controversial new law eviscerating voter-approved Amendment 4 that restored voting rights to former felons \\u2013 the new GOP law requires former felons to pay all fines first before being allowed to vote. Former President Jimmy Carter states he believes that Donald Trump is an illegitimate president due to Russian interference in the 2016 election. The Trump 2020 Campaign dirty tricks have begun: a Trump digital content producer has created a fake-but-real-looking Joe Biden campaign website smearing the former Vice President. The fake site has received more visits than Biden's official website. Do Dems have any plans on how to deal with this sort of thing in 2020? Heat records are shattering around the world, and in the U.S., heat waves cooked mussels in their own shells in Northern California and dangerously cracked highways in South Dakota. Plus Desi Doyen has our latest 'Green News Report' with special coverage of climate change in the first Democratic Presidential Debate in Miami..."