Today was Election Day for major contests in New York City, New Jersey, Virginia and California, not to mention about 30 other states which also held either statewide or local off-year contests. We’ll have full reported results for you, of course, on tomorrow’s BradCast. [Audio link to full show follows this summary.]
In the meantime, there was a whole lot going on today, while America votes…
- Several polling places were temporarily closed in more than half a dozen New Jersey counties on Tuesday following threats, reportedly via email, ultimately determined by officials to be “non-credible”. One local official suggested the emails may have originated “abroad”, bringing to mind the emailed bomb threats that resulted in temporary evacuations of a number of polling places in at least five different battlegrounds states on Election Day during the 2024 Presidential election. Those threats were reported, at the time, to have come from IP addresses in Russia.
- Former Vice President Dick Cheney died on Monday at the age of 84. His family announced the news today. We share some thoughts.
- The Trump Administration has fired yet another government watchdog whose job it was to root out waste, fraud and abuse at a federal agency. This time, according to a Reuters exclusive, it was the acting Inspector General at the Federal Housing and Finance Authority (FHFA), whose Trump-appointed activist Director, Bill Pulte, has been issuing bogus criminal referrals to the DoJ about “mortgage fraud” purportedly committed by Donald Trump‘s political foes, such as New York Attorney General Letitia James, Federal Reserve Board Governor Lisa Cook, and Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA). The IG in this case, a 40-year veteran DoJ prosecutor, was said to have been in the process of notifying Congress that FHFA leadership was violating the law by refusing to cooperate with the Office of the Inspector General. To date, the Administration has fired almost 20 IGs at almost every major (and not-so-major) federal agency or department.
- Trump’s corrupt Attorney General Pam Bondi filed legal documents on Friday in hopes retroactively fixing some pretty huge problems with the weaponized political indictments of former FBI Director James Comey and NY A.G. Letitia James. The filings attempt to rewrite history regarding the corrupt and almost certainly unlawful appointment of Trump’s former insurance lawyer, Lindsey Halligan, as Interim U.S. Attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia. She was expressly appointed to the position after Trump’s previous USA either resigned or was fired for refusing to file the politically motivated charges demanded by Trump, due to lack of evidence.
- Trump, almost certainly looking at an embarrassing loss tonight in California‘s Prop 50 initiative — which would temporarily rewrite the state’s Congressional map in response to a Trump-ordered U.S. House gerrymander in Texas over the summer — was already falsely claiming this afternoon that the contest was somehow “rigged”. CA’s Sec. of State called out his evidence-free bullshit in a statement late today.
- Speaking of the Gerrymandering Wars kicked off by our desperate and incredibly unpopular President, Gov. Wes Moore, in the Democratically-controlled state of Maryland, announced a new Commission to consider jumping into the redistricting game before 2026. Maybe.
- Voting Rights advocates had a big victory on Friday, as one of two federal judges overseeing different lawsuits against Trump’s bogus election-related Executive Order, issued a permanent ban on his attempt to mandate proof of citizenship documents by those registering to vote with the national voter registration form. The judge made clear — as we did when Trump originally issued his dumb EO — that Presidents have zero legal or Constitutional authority regarding elections.
- Finally, Desi Doyen joins us for our latest Green News Report, with a grim humanitarian crisis brewing in Jamaica and elsewhere in the Caribbean following last week’s monster Hurricane Melissa; record rainfall in New York City; incredibly alarming glacial retreat in Antarctica; and the Trump Administration‘s Godfather-like thuggery used to block the world’s first-ever emissions rules for international shipping…
The BradCast
with Brad Friedman
11/4/2025
Republican Thuggery While Americans Vote: ‘BradCast’ 11/4/2025 | Dick Cheney dies; Polling places threatened in NJ; Trump fires another watchdog; Bondi tries to save James, Comey indictments; MD considers redistricting; Judge permanently bars Trump election order... · · · · · Republican Thuggery While Americans Vote: ‘BradCast’ 11/4/2025 | Dick Cheney dies; Polling places threatened in NJ; Trump fires another watchdog; Bondi tries to save James, Comey indictments; MD considers redistricting; Judge permanently bars Trump election order...
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The Gerrymandering wars commence.
The Supreme Argument is about what powers the Congress gave away.
But back to reality for a refrain, for one branch of USA government to “give away” what the Constitution says is their power is to change the Constitutional structure.
Six robe wearers don’t have that power.
A constitutional amendment only takes place when a large majority of the house and senate pass a bill specifying that; and the president does not veto it; and a certain majoriy of the states agree with it.
It takes so much that many scholars are of the opinion that in our current state of mind, or mindlessness, it can’t be done legally.
So, this mamby pamby corrupt cognition devolves into gift giving.
Pathetic!