{"id":12579,"date":"2018-05-16T18:18:18","date_gmt":"2018-05-17T01:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=12579"},"modified":"2018-05-17T11:29:23","modified_gmt":"2018-05-17T18:29:23","slug":"progressive-primary-wins-in-or-ne-id-and-pa-and-even-more-good-news-out-of-scotus-bradcast-5162018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=12579","title":{"rendered":"Progressive Primary Wins in OR, NE, ID and PA; And Even More Good News Out of SCOTUS: ‘BradCast’ 5\/16\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

On today’s BradCast<\/i><\/a>, we’ve got a bunch of mostly encouraging news today for a happy change — particularly for progressives, women, and women progressives<\/a>! [Audio link to show follows below.<\/i>]\n

First up, the least encouraging part of today’s program, as some voters in Pennsylvania were once again prevented from voting<\/a> when 100% unverifiable touch-screen voting systems at a York County precinct failed for the first hour of polling during Tuesday’s statewide mid-term primaries. With just 10 — that’s right, just 10 — emergency paper ballots on hand for each party, voters were turned away because the electronic voting systems failed. That completely predictable problem (which we’ve been warning about for well over a decade now), may well get even worse<\/i> around the country, as states adopt new voting systems with the same problems, under the deceptive premise<\/a> that they produce “paper ballots”.<\/p>\n

Other than that, the news was largely good for progressives (and bad for Congressional Republicans<\/a>) following Tuesday’s primaries in Oregon, Idaho, Nebraska and, of course, Pennsylvania, where Democrats hope to pick up as many as 6 seats from Republicans in their bid to retake the U.S. House this November. The news was particularly good for female candidates<\/a> in PA and elsewhere, and for progressives<\/a> who won in a number of places against candidates preferred by the national Democratic party.<\/p>\n

We detail the key races and upsets in question, some of which will be pose an interesting test for progressives this fall, who have long argued that bolder progressive candidates — calling for universal health care for all, higher wages and other progressive priorities — will perform better in general elections than so-called “Republican lite” candidates. We’ll see if they’re right in just under six months.<\/p>\n

Then, we’re joined by Constitutional law expert<\/a> and author<\/a> IAN MILLHISER<\/b>, to discuss the stolen U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling this week striking down the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act (PASPA), a 1992 federal ban on sports betting in, largely, all states other than Nevada. But, the reason why the finding in the case (Murphy v. NCAA<\/i>) is of note to progressives<\/a> is not due to the specific issue of sports gambling, as he argues<\/a>, but what it likely means for other federalism issues, such as the Trump Administration’s attempted immigration crackdown on so-called “sanctuary cities”.<\/p>\n

Millhiser explains why progressives should be very happy about the Court’s ruling this week — even with the majority opinion written by far-right Justice Samuel Alito — and why the Court unanimously found the law to be an unconstitutional “commandeering” of state’s rights.<\/p>\n

While the holding in that case may be bad news for Trump, so is another decision from a lower federal court this week. Millhiser also details<\/a> a federal judge’s ruling on Tuesday knocking down an attempt by Paul Manafort, Trump’s indicted former campaign chair, to toss one of the two criminal cases filed against him by Special Counsel Robert Mueller.<\/p>\n

Finally today, a bit more on Tuesday’s primaries in Idaho, where a progressive female Democrat became the first native America woman to win the party’s nomination<\/a> for Governor, defeating the national Democrats’ preferred candidate in a race seen as a long-shot for this fall. But, in a nation where thousands of teachers<\/a> in yet another so-called “red” state (North Carolina) on Wednesday shut down schools to march in support of higher pay and more money for schools, anything may now be possible…if voters get out to the polls, are allowed to vote, and are able to make sure their votes are counted as cast this November…<\/p>\n

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