'BradCast' 7/9/2020 (Guest: Mark Joseph Stern on SCOTUS Trump taxes decisions)

Published: July 10, 2020, 1:08 a.m.

b"On today's 'BradCast':\\xa0 The Republicans' stolen U.S. Supreme handed down two major decisions today, mostly agreeing that presidents are not above the law even as their rulings allowed the current one to buy some time before he potentially faces accountability \\u2013 which will almost certainly prevent the public from seeing his tax returns, foreign financial entanglements, and other likely fraudulent financial documents before the critical 2020 election. Donald Trump unleashed an unhinged Twitter tantrum in response to those two extraordinary gifts from the Supreme Court today. One opinion effectively postpones the disclosure of his dubious financial documents to the Manhattan district attorney until after the November election. The other prevents several congressional committees from obtaining similar documents until after the election, and potentially never, if SCOTUS' newly-raised bar for such subpoenas allows Trump to run out the clock to the end of the Congressional session in December. Slate's great court reporter MARK JOSEPH STERN brings clarity and context to today's complicated opinions, which one attorney described thusly: "The ruling is 'No president is above the law', but they post-dated it to the Biden administration." Also today:\\xa0 Trump has received a second unexplained extension postponing release of his annual financial disclosure statement. A NYT columnist proposes that Joe Biden should refuse to debate Trump until Trump releases his tax returns from his years as President. The CDC is now claiming it will not revise guidance for safely reopening schools, despite Trump's complaints that the recommendations are "very tough and expensive". Tulsa is seeing a surge of COVID cases following Trump's unmasked super-spreader campaign rally. Plus Desi Doyen has our latest 'Green News Report' ..."