Hello and welcome to Background Briefing, available 247 at Background Briefing.org. I'm Ian Masters,

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

We begin with how the mainstream press and the TV networks are caving into Trump,

following ABC censorship of protests at Sunday's U.S. Open Men's tennis final,

at which Trump was repeatedly booed by the crowd.

Joining us is Anne Nelson, an author and lecture in the fields of international affairs,

media and human rights, who was a director of the international program at the Columbia School of Journalism, where she created the first curriculum in human rights reporting. Her books

include Red Orchestra, the Berlin Underground, and the Circle of Friends who resisted Hitler,

and Shadow Network, Media Money and the Secret Hub of the Radical Right,

now out in an updated paperback version.

And the new film, Bad Faith, Christian Nationalism's War on Democracy,

is based on her book, Shadow Network, and it's streaming on Amazon Prime, YouTube, and other

platforms.

Then we look into today's Supreme Court stay on a ruling by a federal judge that prohibited

ICE agents from blatant racial profiling, freeing up roving bans of masked ice agents

to target Latinos, which they are doing with

increasing intensity, largely in democratic-controlled cities.

Joining us to discuss the growing rift between the Supreme Court and the lower courts is

Bruce Fine, a constitutional lawyer who formerly served as Associate Deputy Attorney General

under the Reagan administration,

general counsel for the Federal Communications Commission, research director for the joint

congressional committee on COVID arms sales to Iran, and a member of the American Bar Association's

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