'BradCast' 9/12/2023 (Guest: John Nichols on WI GOP's state Supreme Court impeachment threat; GOP McCarthy announces House impeachment inquiry of Biden)
b"On today's 'BradCast':\\xa0 Republicans previously railed against impeachment when it was used to hold their obscenely corrupt former president accountable. Now they are embracing it as a political bludgeon. A little over a week ago, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said the On today's 'BradCast':\\xa0 Republicans previously railed against impeachment when it was used to hold their obscenely corrupt former president accountable. Now they are embracing it as a political bludgeon. A little over a week ago, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said the House GOP would hold a full floor vote before launching any impeachment inquiry in President Biden. Today, McCarthy flip-flopped, unilaterally announcing the opening of an inquiry anyway, despite the fact that three ongoing U.S. House probes and a five-year criminal probe by a Trump-appointed U.S. Attorney failed to uncover any independently verifiable evidence of any wrongdoing by President Biden. McCarthy is trying to appease far-right House Republicans who are threatening to shut down the government without passing critical spending bills. In Wisconsin, Republican state lawmakers are desperately threatening impeachment of a newly-elected state Supreme Court justice who they fear will overturn Republicans' rigged, heavily-gerrymandered legislative maps. Journalist JOHN NICHOLS explains Wisconsin Republicans' radical scheme to entrench themselves in permanent power, how they can cripple the state's highest court, and how pro-democracy folks are fighting back to stop the GOP's unprecedented power grab. Plus Desi Doyen has our latest 'Green News Report.'"