Hello and welcome to Background Briefing, available 24-7 at Background Briefing.org, I'm E. and Masters, and today we'll look into a number of stories and issues in the news.

We'll begin with President Biden's call for reform of the Supreme Court on Monday,

which fell short of adding new justices to the bench,

but that hasn't stopped the Republicans from fulminating that he plans to stack the court,

even though Leonard Leo and the Federalists have installed the six far-right

justices on the Supreme Court and have stacked the judiciary with judges like Eileen Cannon.

Joining us is Harry Littman, a former United States Attorney and Deputy Assistant Attorney General

in the Justice Department. A professor of constitutional law and national security law

at the University of California, San Diego, and the University of California, Los Angeles.

He is the executive producer and host of the Talking Fed's podcast and the Talking Fed's YouTube channel

and the host of the Talking San Diego speaker series and the senior legal affairs columnists at the Los Angeles Times, where his latest article,

which we will discuss is, with Supreme Court reform ideas, Biden is playing the long game.

Then with Governor Whitmer and Governor Shapiro speaking at a rally for Kamala Harris in Pennsylvania

yesterday,

which some interpreted as an audition for the vice presidential slot.

We will speak with Christopher Borick, a professor of political science and director of the

Millenberg College Institute of Public Opinion.

He's a nationally recognized public opinion researcher who has conducted over 300 large-scale public opinion surveys during the past two decades.

He is the co-director of the National Survey on Energy and Environment and currently conduct surveys for the warning call newspaper in Allentown, Pennsylvania, and we'll examine the pros and cons of Josh Shapiro for Vice President.

Then finally, we'll look into the flood of donations to Trump and Vance, coming in from the

crypto industry, with Trump promising to give away the store at their conference in Nashville

on Saturday, while Vance headlined a fundraiser on Monday at the home of the

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