Hello and welcome to Background Briefing, available 24-7 at Background Briefing.org, I'm Ian Masters,

and today we'll look into a number of stories and issues in the news.

We'll begin with the masks coming off the right-wing Supreme Court justices who claim to be

fair and impartial, but in the cases of Thomas and Alito, it is increasingly obvious that they

are ideologues, if not political hacks, and now the true face of Justice Alito was exposed in an audio tape

secretly recorded by Lauren Windsor, the executive producer of the undercurrent, a grassroots

political news program. She is the creative director of American Family Voices, a progressive

non-profit focusing on banking and campaign finance,

and blogs under the name of Lady Libantine and is at work on a documentary Gonzo for Democracy.

Last Monday, she went undercover to the Supreme Court's Historical Society's annual dinner,

where she secretly recorded Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts,

Justice Samuel Alito, and his wife Martha Ann.

We'll discuss how the Chief Justice in private appears reasonable,

while Alito comes off as an uncompromising Christian nationalist

and his wife a vengeful bigot who vows to get back at the press and her critics.

Then we'll assess today's conviction of Hunter Biden on all three felony counts

for lying on a mandatory gun purchasing form in a trial that the Republican prosecutor used

to highlight Hunter's personal failings in humiliating detail with embarrassing evidence of

his cocaine addiction. Joining us to discuss how the MAGA Republicans celebrating Hunter's convictions

passionately opposed the same gun control laws the President's son was convicted on is Joshua Horwitz, the Dana

Fiedler Professor of the Practice and co-director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence

Solutions. He has spent more than three decades working on gun violence prevention issues

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