No matter how much Republicans repeatedly lie about “a justice system ‘weaponized’ by Joe Biden and the Democrats to go after Republicans”, you should know by now how much of a lie that is. If you don’t, I suspect Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez (NJ), Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar (TX), both under federal indictment on corruption charges — not to mention the President’s son, Hunter Biden, on gun and tax charges — should quickly rebut that nonsense to all but the brain-poisoned. Either way, today’s BradCast has you covered. [Audio link to full show follows this summary.]
Among the many stories covered on today’s program…
- Primary elections were held on Tuesday in Iowa, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, South Dakota and the District of Columbia. We’ll have any noteworthy results or problem reports on tomorrow’s show. But you can read more about the programming failure I referred to regarding ES&S touchscreen systems in Wildwood Crest, NJ (a state with a history of similar and much worse failures on their touchscreen systems) right here.
- Speaking of New Jersey, on Monday, the state’s longtime Democratic — and now very strongly indicted (again) — U.S. Senator, Bob Menendez, filed to run for re-election as an independent while federal criminal trial on bribery and corruption charges continues. If he remains on the ballot this Fall (which allows him to use campaign cash to pay legal bills for him and his wife, who is also charged) it could complicate things somewhat for Democrats hoping to see his seat filled by Congressman Andy Kim.
- The House GOP loons held one of their ridiculous “Weaponization of Justice” hearings today, featuring testimony by U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland who pushed back at their nonsense, even as they threaten him with a Contempt of Congress citation.
- Meanwhile, in Wisconsin today, three of Donald Trump‘s 2020 lieutenants who architected the failed Fake Electors plot in hopes of stealing the election from Joe Biden in swingstates, were indicted on forgery charges. The freshly indicted trio includes former Trump attorney Ken Chesebro, former WI state judge James Troupis, and GOP operative Michael Roman who served as Trump’s Director of Election Day Operations. Both Chesebro and Roman have been charged in several other battleground states previously. This is Troupis’ first walk of shame. Overall, some 52 people (so far), including Trump, are now facing criminal charges in five battleground states (Georgia, Arizona, Michigan, Nevada and now Wisconsin) for their parts in the attempted scheme to steal the 2020 election. More charges may still be on the way in several of those states.
- Ohio‘s Republican lawmakers have finally passed — and its Governor has signed — a legislative fix to the deadline issue that would have prevented President Biden from appearing on this November’s Presidential ballot in the Buckeye State. It took months, and a special session called by the Governor, to get done what they easily had done in years past for Republican Presidential candidates. But, in doing so, they also included a provision to change the definition of the phrase “foreign national” to include permanent U.S. residents — green card holders — born in a different country. All of which, as explained on today’s show, is an effort by the state GOP to undermine popular ballot initiatives, like the wildly popular one adopted by voters last year to protect reproductive rights. In any event, and since the measure signed by Gov. Mike DeWine over the weekend could be found unconstitutional, the Democratic National Committee has decided to hold a virtual, online roll call vote to officially nominate Biden in advance of the OH state deadline.
- PLOT TWIST! A Washington state law, on the books since it was a Territory in 1865 (and updated several times since), bars convicted felons from running for office. That could now be very bad news for 34-time convicted felony Donald Trump.
- Finally, Desi Doyen — still recovering from her second bout of COVID over the past two weeks alone — joins us for our latest Green News Report, as India swelters under deadly record temperatures; power outages, mostly related to extreme weather, have doubled in the U.S. over the past two decades; Mexico elects a climate scientists as President amid a record heat wave; and Vermont enacts a first-in-the-nation law to make Big Oil pay up for climate damages…
The BradCast
with Brad Friedman
6/4/2024
The GOP’s Obviously Absurd ‘Weaponization of Justice’ Hoax Continues: ‘BradCast’ 6/4/2024 | Also: Indicted Menendez applies for independent run in NJ; New 2020 Fake Elector plot indictments in WI; Biden will be on OH's ballot after all, convicted felon Trump may not be on WA's... · · · · · The GOP’s Obviously Absurd ‘Weaponization of Justice’ Hoax Continues: ‘BradCast’ 6/4/2024 | Also: Indicted Menendez applies for independent run in NJ; New 2020 Fake Elector plot indictments in WI; Biden will be on OH's ballot after all, convicted felon Trump may not be on WA's...
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“… Republicans repeatedly lie about “a justice system ‘weaponized’ …”
It’s a “look over there” dynamic because the weaponization that has been taking place for over a decade now is the weaponization of police departments by the military (Will The Military Become The Police? – 10).
Whodunnit?