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Independent investigative journalism, broadcasting, trouble-making and muckraking with Brad Friedman of BradBlog.com
Independent investigative journalism, broadcasting, trouble-making and muckraking with Brad Friedman of BradBlog.com. Originating on Pacifica Radio's KPFK 90.7FM in Los Angeles and syndicated coast-to-coast and around the globe! NOW FIVE DAYS A WEEK!
'BradCast' 12/7/2022 (Guest: David Daley of FairVote on SCOTUS nightmare election law case)
12-07-2022 (53.18 MB)
On today's 'BradCast': Democracy had a good night in Georgia on Tuesday before facing a brand new nightmare on Wednesday at the far right-corrupted U.S. Supreme Court. Georgia's incumbent Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock was re-elected to a full term in the U.S. Senate, defeating Trump-backed serial liar Herschel Walker, the latest in a string of losses for Republicans in the 2022 election. The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Moore v. Harper, a case that poses an extreme danger to free and fair elections in America. The dispute is based on a challenge by North Carolina Republicans to the North Carolina State Supreme Court's ruling that struck down their wildly gerrymandered legislative maps. NC Republicans based their challenge on a radical concept called the 'independent state legislature theory,' that they claim gives state legislatures total, unreviewable power to create laws regarding federal elections with no constraints. The fringe theory has never been approved by the Supreme Court in 233 years of US history, but if approved by the Court's rightwing super-majority, it would sow chaos and overturn decades of election and voting laws, giving state legislatures uncheckable power over U.S. elections, including the authority to overrule the will of the voters in presidential elections. Gerrymandering expert DAVID DALEY of FairVote, who was in the courtroom for oral arguments, unpacks the so-called 'independent state legislature' theory, its potentially 'seismic' consequences that 'could shake the very foundation of our democracy,' how the far-right super-majority is likely to rule, and much more.
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