'BradCast' 11/3/2023 (Encore: Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Michael Hiltzik on SCOTUS and a 'wealth tax')

Original airdate 10-25-2023. On today's 'BradCast':  Hurricane Otis is the most powerful hurricane on record to hit Mexico's Pacific Coast,  joining the growing list of storms undergoing rapid intensification when it rocketed from tropical storm to a dangerous Category 5 in 12 hours before landfall. In the U.S. House, Republicans finally selected a new Speaker, far-right Rep. Mike Lee (R-LA), a 2020 election denier, insurrection insider, and climate science denier who is an ardent religious opponent of reproductive rights, LGBTQ rights and aid to Ukraine. The rightwing supermajority on the US Supreme Court is set to hear another case manufactured by a billionaire-funded, rightwing legal mill asking the court to preemptively kill a potential future progressive wealth tax akin to ones proposed by Senators Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders. The same rightwing billionaires continue to lavish certain justices with luxury gifts, travel, and cash money. L.A. Times Pulitzer Prize-winning business columnist MICHAEL HILTZIK explains the lawsuit, why it is 'a scam and a scandal', the rightwing 'cabal' behind it, potential reforms, and much more.