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Supremely Strange Bedfellows in Today’s SCOTUS Rulings: ‘BradCast’ 6/17/2019

Court punts on discrimination case, allows VA racial gerrymander fix, leaves Constitution's double-jeopardy loophole in place; Also: Iran pushes back; More bad 2020 news for Trump; Confused anti-choicer rings in...

Trump Is, In Fact, Our National Emergency – His Biggest Toddler Tantrum Yet: ‘BradCast’ 2/15/2019

Guest-host Angie Coiro with Joel Simon of Comm. to Protect Journalists; Also: Fate of big-tech host cities; Weld to primary Trump?; RBG returns...

The ‘Low Barr’ for Trump’s AG Nominee and Other Notes from a ‘Symphony of Lawlessness’: ‘BradCast’ 1/16/2019

Guest: Slate's Mark Joseph Stern; Also: Surprisingly good news from the courts; SOTU cancelled?; ISIS not defeated...

How to Solve the Government Shutdown? Give Trump What He Asked For: ‘BradCast’ 1/7/2019

Federal closures having real effects (but not on Trump's business); RBG absent at SCOTUS; High Court rejects Exxon; AOC floats tax increase, GOP freaks out; Callers ring in on Democratic majority priorities...

Election Battles Raging On in FL, AZ, GA: ‘BradCast’ 11/9/2018

Guest-host Angie Coiro w/ the latest on that and other news; Also: Amber McKinney on DACA; D.D. Guttenplan on a progressive future...

Statewide ‘Recounts’ Likely Coming in FL, GA, AZ Senate, Governor Races: ‘BradCast’ 11/8/2018

Campaigns fight to 'count every vote' amid uncounted and rejected ballots, undervotes, computer-tabulation concerns

Also: 12 killed in CA shooting; RBG hospitalized; White House lies about, bars CNN journalist; Constitutional Crisis concern mounts after Trump fires Sessions...

Death and Taxes at SCOTUS: ‘BradCast’ 6/21/2018

Guest: Slate legal reporter Mark Joseph Stern; Also: Abuse reported at child immigrant detention centers; Trump's trade war dangers; More...

ICE Busted in DACA Case; SCOTUS Approves Wage Theft; TX, FL GOPers Oppose Voter Registration: ‘BradCast’ 5/22/2018

Guest: Slate's Mark Joseph Stern; Also: EPA blocks mainstream media outlets, forcibly removes reporter, from water contamination event...

‘This Case is Everything’: SCOTUS Hears Oral Arguments in Landmark WI Gerrymander Case: ‘BradCast’ 10/4/2017

Guest: David Daley of FairVote.org on 'Gill v. Whitford'; Plus: Updates on the disaster in Puerto Rico, gun massacre in Las Vegas...

Travel Ban Blocked Again; Trump’s Draconian Budget Cuts; Good News for Voters in GA, TX: ‘BradCast’ 3/16/2017

52 years following LBJ's Voting Rights Act speech, and four since the VRA was gutted by SCOTUS, two recent cases prove it's still much needed...

Berning Bridges Toward ‘Political Revolution’: ‘BradCast’ 8/9/2016

Guest: Ernest A. Canning of 'Vets for Bernie' on tough November choices for hard-core Sanders supporters...

Ginsburg Errs in TX Photo ID Voting Law Dissent, BRAD BLOG Helps Correct Official SCOTUS Opinion

U.S. Veterans' Affairs ID CAN be used for voting in TX this year...

Another Dark Day For Democracy: SCOTUS Allows Racially-Motivated Disenfranchisement Of 600k+ Texas Voters in This Year’s Midterm Elections

Despite uncontested findings of purposeful discrimination in the GOP law, strict new Photo ID restrictions allowed to take effect...

Hearings Begin in Federal Challenge to Nation’s Most Radical Voter Suppression Law in NC

DoJ, ACLU, others seek to block sweeping GOP election reform under still-standing provisions of federal Voting Rights Act

Plaintiffs cite state's recent history of attempted discriminatory voting practices...

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