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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' 11/4/2019 ( Guest: Slate legal journalist Dahlia Lithwick)
11-04-2019 (53.36 MB)
On today's 'BradCast': We are now officially less than a year away from the critical 2020 Presidential election, but our electronic voting systems in many states are still just as bad, dangerous, vulnerable and unverifiable as they were 15 years ago. HBO's John Oliver got a lot of stuff right when he touched on America's voting machine security crisis on Sunday regarding our easily-hacked, oft-failed touchscreen voting systems. Unfortunately, he did not alert voters to the new and equally vulnerable and 100% unverifiable computer touchscreen Ballot Marking Devices (BMDs) now being installed around the country. Tuesday is Election Day in several states, including in Kentucky, where pre-election polls show unpopular Trumpy Republican Gov. Matt Bevin is in a dead heat with Democratic Attorney General Andy Beshear. But in 2015, Bevin was even further behind, yet somehow managed to win anyway on Kentucky's same unverifiable touchscreen voting machines. It has now been a year since Brett Kavanaugh was sworn in to a lifetime appointment as an Associate Justice on the Republicans' stolen U.S. Supreme Court, rammed through by Senate Republicans despite multiple credible accusations of sexual assault. SCOTUS journalist DAHLIA LITHWICK explains why she has not returned to the Court since Kavanaugh was sworn in, and why voters in the U.S. should not simply "get over it" when it comes to both Kavanaugh and the stolen seat filled by Neil Gorsuch. She also discusses two federal appeals court rulings that Trump's accounting firm must turn over his tax returns to New York state prosecutors and Congressional impeachment investigators; Trump's packing of the judiciary with unqualified ideologues for life; and our seeming collective inability (or even interest) to require accountability when laws and precedents are broken, which has led the nation to this perilous position.
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