{"id":14991,"date":"2024-04-02T18:22:17","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T01:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=14991"},"modified":"2024-04-15T17:43:36","modified_gmt":"2024-04-16T00:43:36","slug":"more-gop-election-fraud-and-long-overdue-justice-for-crystal-mason-bradcast-422024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=14991","title":{"rendered":"More GOP Election Fraud and Long-Overdue Justice for Crystal Mason: &#8216;BradCast&#8217; 4\/2\/2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/BradCast_CrystalMason-Justice_040224.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">As it <a href=\"https:\/\/quoteinvestigator.com\/2012\/11\/15\/arc-of-universe\/\">is said<\/a>, &#8220;the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.&#8221; It continues to bend mostly in that direction on today&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/BradCast\"><i>BradCast<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Among our many stories today&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Donald Trump<\/b> finally <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/donald-trump-civil-fraud-trial-feb0593a5bbd3837edc0db195554eda1\">coughed up<\/a> a bond for $175 million &#8212; of the $454 million plus interest that he still owes in full &#8212; in his <b>New York<\/b> civil fraud case as his appeal continues.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The judge in <b>Trump<\/b>&#8216;s <b>New York<\/b> criminal trial related to hush-money payments to a porn star to help him win the 2016 election, has <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/donald-trump-gag-order-hush-money-juan-merchan-f182e7d5c27967b86a59277fd24743e4\">expanded<\/a> his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nycourts.gov\/LegacyPDFS\/press\/PDFs\/Clarification-OrderRestrictingES.pdf\">gag-order [PDF]<\/a> against the disgraced former President to cover family members of jurors, witnesses, prosecutors and the judge himself, whose daughter had been repeatedly (and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/03\/27\/nyregion\/trump-social-media-attack.html?unlocked_article_code=1.hk0.-pB6.E-pU-YRnwsHy&#038;smid=url-share\">fraudulently<\/a>) attacked in recent days by the GOP&#8217;s Presidential front-runner. His trial, on 34 felony counts, begins on April 15.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Gov. <b>Ron DeSantis<\/b>&#8216; packed state <b>Supreme Court in Florida<\/b> tossed out decades of state constitutional <a href=\"https:\/\/reproductiverights.org\/florida-supreme-court-15-week-abortion-ban-amendment-4\/\">precedent<\/a> to allow his Big Government 6-week abortion ban to take effect. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/04\/01\/politics\/florida-six-week-abortion-ban\/index.html\">At the same time<\/a>, the court also narrowly allowed a Constitutional Amendment to <i>protect<\/i> reproductive rights on this year&#8217;s general election ballot in the Sunshine State. It, like a measure to allow the sale of recreational marijuana that the Justices also approved for the ballot on Monday, will need to receive support from more than 60% of voters this year to take effect. Democrats are hopeful that the ballot measures could help them win back the former swing-state for the first time in years this November.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>GOP state legislators in <b>Arizona<\/b> are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azcentral.com\/story\/news\/politics\/legislature\/2024\/03\/28\/arizona-republicans-want-ballot-measure-scrapping-early-voting\/73071053007\/\">on the verge of adopting a ballot measure<\/a> for this November which would end most early voting and vote-by-mail in the state where more than 80% of voters currently take advantage of such conveniences as well as end the use of convenient Voting Centers in the state&#8217;s two largest (and most Democratic-leaning) counties. Since the resolution will result in a ballot measure, if passed next by the state Senate, it can&#8217;t be vetoed by the state&#8217;s Democratic Governor. On the other hand, it&#8217;ll be something for voters to think about as Dems are now <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PoliticsWolf\/status\/1773811382607024619?s=20\">just two swing-seats away<\/a> from flipping each chamber of the state legislature from &#8220;red&#8221; to &#8220;blue&#8221;.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Ever since <b>Republicans<\/b> decided to pretend the Presidential election was stolen from them with massive &#8212; if evidence-free &#8212; voter fraud in 2020, almost every case of such fraud that has been found has been carried out by Republicans. Today, we&#8217;ve got two more examples of GOP officials caught having committing such fraud. One is from a state Representative in <b>Alabama<\/b> who was forced to step down after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.waff.com\/2023\/05\/26\/deposition-held-rep-david-cole-contest-residency-district-10\/\">lying about his residency<\/a> (his seat was <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/alabama-ivf-abortion-legislature-378c3fa32dcfc2d0401f3893828482af\">filled last week<\/a> by a Democrat in a Special Election), and another was by a high-ranking state Republican Party official and rightwing talk show host in <b>Georgia<\/b> who was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ajc.com\/politics\/georgia-judge-rules-that-republican-brian-k-pritchard-voted-illegally\/M4A27QQNQJDW7MTI66MRF5B4EQ\/\">voted illegally 9 times<\/a>. Both got off with largely slaps on the wrist.\n<p>Whenever these stories have come to light in recent years, we&#8217;ve found ourselves comparing the velvet glove treatment of white, Republican voter fraud criminals to the years-long hell on Earth faced by <b>Crystal Mason<\/b>, the black Texas woman [<i>pictured above<\/i>] who was sentenced in 2018 to five years in prison for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aclu.org\/issues\/voting-rights\/crystal-mason-thought-she-had-right-vote-texas-sentenced-her-five-years-prison\">unknowingly casting an unlawful provisional ballot<\/a> that was never even counted back in 2016. Last week, at long-last, Mason was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2024\/mar\/28\/crystal-mason-texas-woman-acquitted\">acquitted of the charges<\/a> she never should have never faced in the first place.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Finally, Desi Doyen is back with <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=14990\">our latest <i>Green News Report<\/i><\/a>, as an iconic cliff-side coastal road collapses amid heavy climate-change fueled rains in <b>California<\/b>; Republicans protest federal funding to rebuild the collapsed <b>Francis Scott Key Bridge<\/b> in Baltimore; a new report finds our man-made climate crisis is taking a <b>brutal toll on the economy<\/b>; and the <b>Biden Administration&#8217;s EPA<\/b> makes some major moves on <b>methane<\/b> leaks and <b>truck pollution<\/b>&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\".\/Images\/Speaker_Icon_24.png\" style=\"width: 24px; float: none; vertical-align: middle;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px; line-height: 18px;\"> <b><i><a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/audio\/BradCast_BradFriedman-TrumpCrimesNY-AbortionMeasureFL-EarlyVotingAZ-GOPFraudAL-GA-CrystalMasonAcquittedTX_040224.mp3\">CLICK TO LISTEN OR DOWNLOAD SHOW!&#8230;<\/a><\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><center><b>* * *<\/b><\/center><i>While we post <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/BradCast\"><\/i>The BradCast<i><\/a> here every day, and you can hear it across all of our great affiliate stations and websites, to automagically get new episodes as soon as they&#8217;re available sent right to your computer or personal device, subscribe for free at <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-bradcast-w-brad-friedman\/id803467610\">iTunes<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pandora.com\/podcast\/the-bradcast-w-brad-friedman\/PC:1000025838\">Pandora<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/The-BradCast-with-Brad-Friedman-p477565\/\">TuneIn<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.google.com\/feed\/aHR0cHM6Ly9icmFkYmxvZy5jb20vcG9kY2FzdGdlbi9icmFkY2FzdC9mZWVkLnhtbA\">Google<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-BradCast-w-Brad-Friedman\/dp\/B08JJRN86R\/ref=sr_1_1\">Amazon<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/podcastgen\/bradcast\/feed.xml\">our native RSS feed<\/a>!<\/i><\/p>\n<p><!--BB-DONATEPITCH-START--><\/p>\n<div style=\"background:#f5f0e0; border:2px solid #6b5a2e; border-radius:6px; padding:10px 14px; text-align:center; font-family:Georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"display:block; margin:0 0 8px 0; color:#3a2e0e; font-size:0.95em; line-height:1.5;\"><strong>The BRAD BLOG<\/strong>, <em>The BradCast<\/em> and <em>Green News Report<\/em> are all 100% independent and 100% listener and reader supported!<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/Donate\" style=\"display:inline-block; background:#6b5a2e; color:#ffffff; padding:6px 18px; border-radius:4px; font-weight:bold; text-decoration:none; font-family:Georgia,serif; font-size:0.9em;\">Please CLICK HERE to help support our work today!<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!--BB-DONATEPITCH-END--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As it is said, &#8220;the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.&#8221; It continues to bend mostly in that direction on today&#8217;s BradCast. Among our many stories today&#8230; Donald Trump finally coughed up a bond for $175 million &#8212; of the $454 million plus interest that he still owes in [&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":[192,113,70,1337,89,675,21,543,479,1611,106,28,451,16,72,320,1966,477,751,111,300,126,1238,47,1224,280,348],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-14991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accountability","category-alabama","category-arizona","category-baltimore","category-media-appearance","category-bradcast","category-california","category-climate-change","category-donald-trump","category-election-2024","category-election-fraud","category-election-reform","category-epa","category-florida","category-georgia","category-joe-biden","category-juan-merchan","category-kpfk","category-marijuana","category-new-york","category-republicans","category-rights-and-freedoms","category-ron-desantis","category-texas","category-trump-organization","category-vote-caging","category-vote-by-mail","bb-type-bradcast"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14991","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=14991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14991\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14991"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=14991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}