{"id":11321,"date":"2015-08-24T17:45:16","date_gmt":"2015-08-25T00:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=11321"},"modified":"2015-08-24T17:44:41","modified_gmt":"2015-08-25T00:44:41","slug":"texas-photo-id-law-found-discriminatory-illegal-yet-still-suppressing-voters-bradcast-8242015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=11321","title":{"rendered":"Texas Photo ID Law Found Discriminatory, Illegal, Yet Still Suppressing Voters: ‘BradCast’ 8\/24\/2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

First up on today’s BradCast<\/i><\/a>, financial journalist David Dayen<\/a> joins us to explain why the Dow Jones Industrial average plummeted<\/a> 1000 points over the past two trading days, whether or not you should be worried about it, and how the U.S. is missing a golden opportunity in the bargain.<\/p>\n

Then, BRAD BLOG’s legal analyst Ernest A. Canning<\/a> joins us to explain why — even after the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals recently found<\/a> Texas Republicans’ polling place Photo ID voting restriction to be discriminatory and illegal (just as the lower U.S. District Court did last year<\/a> and just as the federal government did well before that<\/a>) — the GOP’s voting restriction is, increcibly, still<\/em> in effect anyway and may serve to disenfranchise some 600,000 lawfully registered (largely Democratic-leaning) voters during the 2016 Presidential election.<\/p>\n

Canning wrote about the disturbing situation in detail last week in an article at The BRAD BLOG<\/a> and explains the mess in brief on today’s show: “It seems nonsensical to say a law has been struck down but it is still in force. But that’s basically where we stand right now.”<\/p>\n

“This law has a discriminatory impact — it disparately impacts minorities and the poor,” he says, citing the Appeals Court’s latest decision. “You now have this identical finding three successive times in court dating back to 2012, and here we are in 2015 and we’re having to worry about whether that discrimination is going to occur again in 2016.”<\/p>\n

Also on today’s BradCast<\/em>: Texas health care situation is still among the worst in the nation; Trump wows ’em in Alabama; California is NOT in chaos (no matter what disinformed Republicans may tell you); And fall-out from my rant last week<\/a> about the excellent new British government findings<\/a> on the safety and efficacy of e-cigs; and more!…<\/p>\n

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