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Senate Dems Must Filibuster Trump's Stolen US Supreme Court Nominee

Senate Dems Must Filibuster Trump's Stolen U.S. Supreme Court Nominee
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On today's BradCast, history and democracy need heroes right about now. Senate Democrats have the option to fight back against Trump's nominee to the GOP's stolen US Supreme Court, or they can become collaborators and enablers of the Republican theft and be voted out of office in response.

US Supreme Court Building on Capitol Hill in Washington. (File) - Sputnik International
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In 2016, Senate Republicans stole the US Supreme Court by refusing to hold a hearing, much less a vote, on Barack Obama's centrist (arguably, too centrist) nominee Judge Merrick Garland following the death of Justice Antonin Scalia. Now that Donald Trump has announced his own nomination for the stolen seat, Judge Neil Gorsuch, history — and democracy — demands that Democrats filibuster any nominee other than Garland, even if it leads (as it will) to the "nuclear option" in which Senate Republicans do away the filibuster rule, as Trump has now called for.

We explain why all of this matters on today's show, detailing the GOP's extraordinarily dishonest and hypocritical action and rhetoric on this point from Republican Majority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell, Sen. Orrin Hatch, Sen. John McCain and others.

Most importantly, we call for listeners to demand their US Senators prevent the Court from being further stolen during Trump's Chaos Presidency. (You can reach your Senators' D.C. offices by calling them at: 202-224-3121). We strongly support Oregon Senator Jeff Merkley's call for exactly this, hope you do too, and hope you'll let your Senators know you will work and donate and vote against them if they fail to protect the Court.

Rex Tillerson, the former chairman and chief executive officer of Exxon Mobil, smiles during his testimony before a Senate Foreign Relations Committee confirmation hearing on his nomination to be U.S. secretary of state in Washington, U.S. January 11, 2017 - Sputnik International
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We also take listener calls today from those who both agree and disagree with the above strategy to defend democracy. Also today, in very related news, orders have reportedly been sent to the Army Corp of Engineers to allow construction of the final section of the Dakota Access Pipeline in North Dakota; Senate Republicans break the rules in order to jam several Trump cabinet nominees through committee, despite their alleged financial improprieties and lying to Congress about them; And several Dems join Republicans to confirm ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson as the next Secretary of State.

Finally, Desi Doyen joins us for the latest Green News Report, as Trump and the GOP Congress move with lightning speed to gut decades of environmental protections, and the state of California pushes back.

You can find Brad’s previous editions here. And tune in to radio Sputnik three hours a day, five days a week, at 5 pm GMT.

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