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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' 1/29/2021 (Recounted: New state GOP War on Voters and Voting; Trump's 2nd impeachment trial)
01-29-2021 (53.17 MB)
'BradCast' Recounted: On today's show, we've put together some of our important recent interviews that you may have missed. First up: The tsunami of disinformation pushed by Donald Trump to steal the presidential election with false allegations of 'voter fraud' ultimately failed, but that disinformation is now being used to advance new voter suppression laws in GOP-controlled state legislatures. DAVID DALEY, Senior Fellow at FairVote and author of 'Unrigged: How Americans Are Battling Back to Save Democracy,' explains new efforts by GOP state lawmakers to create 'an epidemic of Republican minority rule in this country' -- exploiting Trump's absurdly false claims about 'voter fraud' in the 2020 election to justify erecting new restrictions to voting, game the Electoral College vote, and more. Daley also discusses the ridiculously undemocratic Senate - 'the original gerrymander' as he describes it – with actions that voters and elected Democrats can take to counter Senate GOP obstruction. Then: Constitutional law and impeachment expert RON FEIN, Legal Director of the non-partisan government accountability group Free Speech for People (FSFP), explains why the second Senate impeachment trial of Donald Trump is crucial to ensuring accountability for the 'seditious' former President and all future presidents. Fein also dismantles Senate Republicans' false and disingenuous attempts to circumvent the impeachment trial, their bad-faith efforts to halt President Joe Biden's economic recovery agenda, and what happens now that the GOP's stolen and packed U.S. Supreme Court has dismissed two cases regarding Trump's alleged violation of the Constitution's Emoluments Clause....
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