'BradCast' 9/9/2020 (Guest: Legal reporter Mark Joseph Stern)
b"On today's 'BradCast':\\xa0 The Western U.S. is grappling with unprecedented, catastrophic, climate change-intensified wildfires turning the sky an apocalyptic orange and wiping out entire towns in Oregon, Washington and Northern California. But corporate media is failing to connect these extreme weather disasters to the human-caused climate crisis, so we do. Then Slate's ace legal reporter MARK JOSEPH STERN explains the unprecedented move by the U.S. Justice Department to protect Donald Trump from a defamation lawsuit filed against him by author E. Jean Carroll in New York state court, stemming from her allegations that Trump raped her in a department store dressing room in the 1990's. Stern explains the Justice Department's stunning motion to move the case from state to federal court and replace Trump's personal defense lawyers with taxpayer-funded DOJ attorneys, the impact it could have on the November 2020 election, and what it means for Caroll's lawsuit. Stern also discusses bona fide good news out of North Carolina, where state court judges finally struck down an 1877 law meant to 'secure white supremacy' by denying former felons the right to vote, and explains the long, racist history of the law. The court's ruling means about 100,000 NC residents are now eligible to vote in the 2020 Presidential election in one of the most closely divided states in the nation. Also today:\\xa0 noteworthy primary results from New Hampshire and Rhode Island."