{"id":12261,"date":"2017-08-18T18:03:32","date_gmt":"2017-08-19T01:03:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=12261"},"modified":"2024-06-04T19:09:27","modified_gmt":"2024-06-05T02:09:27","slug":"the-25th-for-45-plus-bannon-out-and-over-one-million-chicago-voter-records-exposed-again-bradcast-8182017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=12261","title":{"rendered":"The 25th for 45?; Plus: Bannon Out and Over One Million Chicago Voter Records Exposed (Again): ‘BradCast’ 8\/18\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

On today’s BradCast<\/i><\/a>, another tumultuous week, another White House firing, another major election system breach and another look at how it all could end. [Audio link follows below.<\/i>]\n

White House Chief Strategist — and once and future head of the far-right fake ‘news’ outlet Breitbart — is fired<\/a> after yet another tumultuous week of self-inflicted wounds by Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

Also today, 11 years after The BRAD BLOG first reported exclusively<\/a> on a massive breach of personal voting records for some 1.5 million Chicago voters, the private company contracted to run the city’s voter registration system did it again<\/a>. ES&S, the largest electronic voting system vendor in the nation, was discovered<\/a> to have been storing 1.8 million voter registration records on an unprotected web server this week, exposing citizens to data theft and the city’s administrative voting system passwords. All underscoring, yet again, the continuing failures and dangers of having privatized our public electoral system, as we’ve been trying to highlight for nearly 15 years now.<\/p>\n

Then, with the President’s approval rating at an historic low<\/a> and support for his impeachment climbing<\/a>, concerns about his fitness for office continue to mount in the wake of his equivalence between neo-Nazis and those who protest them, following the murder of a counter-protester in Charlottesville. New articles<\/a> of impeachment are filed in the U.S. House, more Presidential advisory councils<\/a> are disbanding<\/a>, with CEOs and other business leaders (even James Murdoch<\/a> of Fox “News”!) quickly distancing themselves from Trump, even some top Republicans<\/a> who previously supported him are now finally suggesting<\/a> he may be unfit for office.<\/p>\n

So, how might this all end? We’re joined today by columnist, author<\/a> and political scientist DAVID FARIS<\/b> of Roosevelt University<\/a> to discuss that, Bannon, and his new piece at The Week<\/a> on the Constitutional ambiguities of the 25th Amendment. Can it and should it be invoked to remove Trump from office? And how the hell does it even work?<\/p>\n

Faris argues “we cannot take three-and-a-half more years of this nonstop hell without experiencing a collective nervous breakdown,” describes the firing of Bannon as “a great victory for The Resistance”, and offers his thoughts on whether the latest shake-up at the continuously chaotic White House is ultimately good for the nation. Then, he compares the difficulties of the impeachment process versus those in invoking the never-before-used Section 4 of the 25th Amendment to remove a President who is judged to be unfit for office. Faris also handicaps the odds — and advantages to both the GOP Congress and Vice-President — of either option actually being triggered.<\/p>\n

Finally, as if things aren’t troubling enough, we’re joined by Desi Doyen for the latest Green News Report<\/i><\/a>, as National Monuments are on the Administration’s chopping block, Trump revokes Obama’s Executive Order protecting the nation’s infrastructure, and the U.S. looks forward to its first total eclipse of the sun in nearly 100 years…<\/p>\n

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