{"id":11671,"date":"2016-05-02T17:28:31","date_gmt":"2016-05-03T00:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=11671"},"modified":"2016-05-02T17:27:20","modified_gmt":"2016-05-03T00:27:20","slug":"lawyers-guns-and-voting-bradcast-522016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=11671","title":{"rendered":"Lawyers, Guns, and Voting: &#8216;BradCast&#8217; 5\/2\/2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/BradCast_ObamaWHCD043016_micdrop.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">Today on <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/BradCast\"><i>The BradCast<\/i><\/a>, we catch up on a number of stories &#8212; amusing, disturbing and otherwise &#8212; from late last week, over the weekend, and today, in advance of tomorrow&#8217;s big Primary election in Indiana. [<i>Audio link to the show follows below<\/i>.]\n<p>Among the stories covered on today&#8217;s program&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Satan&#8217;s minions are <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/satanists-snub-comparison-cruz-lucifer\/story?id=38785064\">offended<\/a> by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stanforddaily.com\/2016\/04\/28\/john-boehner-talks-election-time-in-office\/\">comparison<\/a> of Lucifer to Ted Cruz;<\/li>\n<li>Last week&#8217;s outbreak of mass shootings around the country <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vice.com\/read\/mass-shootings-killed-more-people-in-the-us-last-week-than-in-all-of-europe-in-2016\">surpassed<\/a> the number killed in similar shootings in all of Europe for the entire year;<\/li>\n<li>The GOP <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/wireStory\/virginia-gop-lawmakers-sue-felons-voting-rights-38814642\">promises<\/a> legal push-back against the VA Democratic Governor&#8217;s executive <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brennancenter.org\/press-release\/vermont-governor-signs-bipartisan-automatic-voter-registration-bill\">order<\/a> last week allowing some 200,000 former felons the right to register and vote;<\/li>\n<li>Dumb Democrats gleeful about a Clinton &#8220;landslide&#8221; if Trump wins the GOP nomination (Talking to you, Rob Reiner!);<\/li>\n<li>Bernie Sanders <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/ballot-box\/presidential-races\/278322-sanders-the-convention-will-be-a-contested-contest\">believes<\/a> there will be a &#8220;contested&#8221; Democratic Presidential nominating convention this summer.<\/li>\n<li>The U.S. Supreme Court&#8217;s (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2016\/04\/29\/supreme-court-texas-voting-photo-id\/83075938\/\">somewhat<\/a> encouraging?) <a href=\"http:\/\/electionlawblog.org\/?p=82423\">order<\/a> late last week on the TX Republicans&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=11642\">unlawful Photo ID voting law<\/a>;<\/li>\n<li>Senate Democrats <a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/dc\/dem-letter-judiciary-committee-republicans\">call<\/a> for their Republican counterparts to hold hearings on the Voting Rights Act (before millions of more legal voters are disenfranchised this November), as well as on Obama&#8217;s nominee to the Supreme Court;<\/li>\n<li>And finally, a few words on the White House Correspondents Dinner over the weekend, which is, on the whole, a dreadful affair, some excerpts from Obama&#8217;s amusing final speech there, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/ct-white-house-correspondents-dinner-scuffle-20160501-story.html\">fisticuffs<\/a> that broke out afterward.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Also, my great thanks to the awesome Danielle and Shane-O from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thomhartmann.com\/\"><i>Thom Hartmann Program<\/i><\/a> for expertly filling in for Desi and me <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=11669\">on Friday<\/a>! 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[Audio link to the show follows below.] Among the stories covered on today&#8217;s program&#8230; Satan&#8217;s minions are offended by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[239,494,89,675,299,479,594,6,28,14,226,44,477,46,188,551,172,300,126,658,827,47,233,313,105,243,517],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-11671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-bernie-sanders","category-media-appearance","category-bradcast","category-democrats","category-donald-trump","category-election-2016","category-election-irregularities","category-election-reform","category-fox-news","category-hillary-clinton","category-indiana","category-kpfk","category-mainstream-corporate-media","category-mainstream-media-failure","category-nra","category-photo-id-laws","category-republicans","category-rights-and-freedoms","category-ted-cruz","category-terry-mcauliffe","category-texas","category-us-senate","category-us-supreme-court","category-virginia","category-voter-registration","category-voting-rights-act","bb-type-bradcast"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11671"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=11671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}