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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' 3/22/2017: (Dark money, 'Citizens United', Neil Gorsuch and Sheldon Whitehouse)
03-22-2017 (53.93 MB)
Connecting the dots between the 'Citizens United' ruling, the GOP theft of the U.S. Supreme Court and the undermining of climate change legislation. On today's show, we go back to 1991, when a newly formed rightwing non-profit group by the name of Citizens United spent $100,000 to ensure that alleged sexual harasser Clarence Thomas would be confirmed as a Justice to the U.S. Supreme Court. Twenty years later, in 2010's 'Citizens United v. FEC' ruling, Thomas then helped unleash a tsunami of undisclosed 'dark money' into our political, electoral and judicial system. In 2014, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) cited that fateful decision as the point in time when Republicans, who used to support action on climate change, immediately stopped doing so. And, this week, at the confirmation hearings for Judge Neil Gorsuch -- Donald Trump's nominee for the GOP's stolen Supreme Court seat -- Whitehouse confronted Gorsuch in a fascinating extended exchange about 'dark money' in politics, including the $10 million spent by undisclosed rightwingers backing his confirmation, and the $7 million those same shady groups spent to block the confirmation of Barack Obama's nominee, Judge Merrick Garland. All of that and more on today's program, including Desi Doyen and the latest 'Green News Report,' and the Colorado GOP's former chairman-turned-talk show host who has now been charged with absentee voter fraud...
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