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Appeals Court Blocks Last Route for Voters to Challenge Violations of the Voting Rights Act: ‘BradCast’ 5/19/2025

Guest: Justin Levitt, former Dep. Asst. A.G. at DOJ; Also: Springsteen sounds alarm; Far-right loses in Romania; SCOTUS blocks Trump again...

And Then They Came for the Judges…: ‘BradCast’ 4/28/2025

...and the Voting Rights Section at DOJ ... and a 4-year old U.S. citizen with Stage 4 cancer; As Trump's approval ratings plunge ... on everything ... nearing his 100th day in office...

Dueling Lawsuits: Texas A.G. and County Election Officials Square-Off Over Voter Registration

Right to register under assault following state's massive voter roll purge...

How SCOTUS Has Been Undermining American Democracy for 50 Years: ‘BradCast’ 6/6/2024

Guest: Univ. of KY election law professor Joshua A. Douglas; Also: Bannon (mostly) ordered to prison; U.N. chief calls for a ban on fossil fuel ads, as planet reaches disturbing new climate warming milestone...

Republican FEC Commissioners Vote to Allow Campaign Donors to Hide Their Identity: ‘BradCast’ 5/16/2024

Guest: Campaign finance expert Craig Holman of Public Citizen; Also: Two (generally) encouraging SCOTUS rulings on CFPB funding and a second Black-majority U.S. House district in Louisiana...

LAPD Right-Wing Bias in Violent Response to UCLA Protest Was No Surprise

U.S. law enforcement has long sided with the right against peaceful anti-war, environmental, racial and economic injustice protesters...

Update, 5/17/24: Paradox of police power covered by newly released Netflix film, 'Power'...

Trump Trial Ketchup: Criminal Contempt and His Two-Tier Justice System: ‘BradCast’ 5/1/2024

Guests: Dr. Allison Gill of 'Mueller, She Wrote', Keith Barber of Daily Kos; Also: Dems outperform again in NY; 4th Circuit nixes some PA ballots; Federal judges strike down LA's new Black majority House district...

Third-Party Myopia v. Democracy’s Survival

2024 needs transformative solidarity to overcome corrupt, authoritarian forces unleashed with the help of past third-party campaigns...

UPDATE 7/17/24: RFK Jr tells Trump he'll win; asks for job in his administration; UPDATE 8/23/24: RFK Jr. suspends campaign; Stein on ballot in 18 States; West in only 3...

SCOTUS Suddenly Concerned About Over-Criminalization … for J6 Insurrectionists: ‘BradCast’ 4/17/2024

Guest: LawDork's Chris Geidner; Also: Scam GOP impeachment trial ends in one day; AZ Repubs spike repeal of 1864 abortion law (again); Voter turnout doubles in AL's new majority minority U.S. House District...

Racial Gap at Polls Has Widened Since SCOTUS Gutted Voting Rights Act: ‘BradCast’ 3/5/2024

Also: New rightwing voter suppression schemes in swing-states; Sinema not running again; Trump CFO headed back to prison; New charges for Menendez; 'Christian' Liberty U. covered up sex abuse, rape crimes...

Full U.S. 8th Circuit Court of Appeals Upholds Insane Ruling that Could Finally Kill the VRA: ‘BradCast’ 1/31/2024

Guest: Chris Geidner of Law Dork; Also: Did Trump TV network unlawfully obtain and distribute voting machine company passwords after 2020?...

Good News for Bad GOP Gerrymanders in Three States, as NH Heads to Polls: ‘BradCast’ 1/23/2024

Also: Haley notches small victory in Dixville, NH; 2020 mistallies in VA benefited Trump; Deadly, climate-fueled storms slam nation...

Happy New Year: Wisconsin Supremes Overturn GOP-Gerrymandered State Legislative Maps

Next election may end GOP entrenchment in WI Assembly, though GOP entrenchment in Senate unlikely to be fully eradicated before 2026...

UPDATE 1/15/24: Court denies GOP motion to reconsider. UPDATE 2/19/29: Gov. Evers approves new map, likely ending litigation...

2024’s Chance for Democracy’s Renewal: ‘BradCast’ 12/19/2023

Some good (and not so good) legal news at year's end, and some hope for what next year's elections could bring in our final show of the year...

SCOTUS and the ‘Growing Lower Court Rebellion’ by Trump Judges: ‘BradCast’ 12/13/2023

Guest: Legal journalist Mark Joseph Stern; Also: Dow tops record high; Chutkan pauses Trump case; Hunter Biden pushes back at U.S. Capitol; House GOP votes to open revenge Impeachment inquiry...

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