Hello and welcome to Background Briefing, available 24-7 at Background Briefing.org.

I'm me and Masters, and today we'll look into a number of stories and issues in the news.

We'll begin with the case the Supreme Court takes up on Tuesday that will kill any proposed

wealth taxes before they even exist and further weaken the government's ability to collect

revenues from the wealthy and powerful as dynastic wealth from the inheritors of billions now surpasses the wealth created by the entrepreneurial billionaires who created the fortunes.

Joining us is Chuck Collins, a senior scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies, where he directs the program on inequality and co-edice inequality.org.

He's the author of Born on Third Base,

a 1% of makes the case for tackling inequality, is inequality in America irreversible? And his latest book is The Wealth Hoarders, How Billionaires Pay Millions to Hide Trillions. Then we'll examine a

proposed ban on, quote, those who

expose or tolerate anti-Semitism, pro-Nazi sympathies, or Holocaust denial, which was rejected

by the Texas Republican Party's executive committee that was to be included in a resolution

Saturday to support Israel in its war with Hamas in Gaza.

Joining us is Robert Downen, a reporter at the Texas Tribune covering democracy and the threats to it,

including extremism, disinformation and conspiracies. We'll discuss his latest article at the Texas Tribune.

Texas GOP Executive Committee rejects proposed ban on associating with Nazi sympathizers

and Holocaust deniers.

Then finally we'll speak with Timothy Kanova, who is a professor of law and public finance

at Nova Southeastern University College of Law in Florida, who was an early critic

of financial deregulation and warned of the dangers of the bubble economy. He was appointed by

Senator Bernie Sanders to serve on an advisory committee on Federal Reserve Reform, and we'll

discuss the exploding scandal in Florida that has Governor Ron DeSantis asking his French

Christian Ziegler, the chair of Florida's GOP, to step down due to sexual assault charges from a

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