The BradCast w/ Brad Friedman

'BradCast' 6/18/2020 (Sarah Pierce of the Migration Policy Institute on SCOTUS ruling on DACA)

06.19.2020 - By Brad FriedmanPlay

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On today's 'BradCast':   Donald Trump's promises to end the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program were so void of substance that even his stolen U.S. Supreme Court had to concede his attempt was unlawful and unconstitutional. It was the second such defeat for the haters and the feckless President this week. The Court ruled 5-4 that Trump's botched, sloppy haste to end the program, which protects from deportation nearly 800,000 people brought here by their parents as children, violated the Administrative Procedures Act requiring reasonable justification for overturning executive orders by previous presidents. SARAH PIERCE, policy analyst at the Migration Policy Institute, explains the ruling and what it means for DREAMERS, who are protected, for now – at least until the Trump Administration can figure out how to end it legally. Pierce explains how the Trump White House and Republicans have repeatedly torpedoed all attempts in Congress to pass an immigration bill to protect DREAMERS. Also today: Shocking, but not surprising, revelations from Trump's former National Security Advisor John Bolton, who reveals in a new book how Trump attempted another Ukraine-style quid pro quo extortion scheme with China, by promising to lift trade tariffs in exchange for China helping him win re-election. Bolton could have testified in the Democrats' impeachment trial against Trump, but shamefully chose to hold his revelations for his book. Please don't buy that book.  Finally, Desi Doyen has our latest 'Green News Report', as a new analysis concludes the nation could move to 90 percent renewable electricity in just 15 years, saving money and lives...

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