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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' 7/11/2017: (Guest: ACLU Voting Rights Project staff attorney Theresa Lee)
07-11-2017 (54.64 MB)
First up today, a few comments on the news regarding Donald Trump, Jr.'s meeting with a Russian attorney last year and the federal election laws he may have violated in the bargain. But, with everyone else covering that story, few are covering the ongoing plans of the Senate GOP to repeal the health care for millions of Americans in exchange for tax cuts for the wealthy, possibly as early as next week. Similarly, with all of the noise regarding the incompetence and/or corruption of Team Trump, it's important to keep an eye on their ongoing plans for voter suppression via Trump's so-called 'Election Integrity Commission,' which has already resulted in voters around the nation removing themselves from the registration rolls for fear that Commission Vice-Chair and notorious 'voter fraud' fraudster Kris Kobach will publicly release personal information of registered voters, such as birthdate, social security number, military status, etc., as he recently promised in a letter to all 50 states seeking that data. But as Kobach has made a career out of pretending there is a massive voter fraud epidemic, and threatening prosecution against voters for small and often inadvertent violations of the law, you'd think his Commission would follow the rule of law to the letter. That does not appear to be the case, however: at least four different legal complaints alleging violations of federal law have already been filed against Kobach and the Commission over the past week, even as still more nootrious GOP 'voter fraud' fraudsters have quietly been added as Commissioners to the Presidential panel. Theresa Lee, staff attorney at the ACLU's Voting Rights Project, one of the groups who have filed legal complaints against the Commission, joins us to explain their lawsuit and what it is that Kobach and friends are really up to under the Commission's guise of combating 'voter fraud'. Finally today, it's the return of the 'Green News Report' with Desi Doyen after a week off over the holidays, and just in time for another heat wave across much of the country...
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