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b"On today's 'BradCast':\\xa0 Republicans have orchestrated a $250 million dark money scheme using a closely interconnected conspiracy of rightwing groups to pack the federal courts -- including the U.S. Supreme Court \\u2013 by influencing the selection and confirmation process, and pushing specific cases to help achieve very specific results that benefit the very well-moneyed interests involved. On Tuesday, during hearings Senate Judiciary Committee's appalling and hypocritical push to ram through the confirmation of U.S. Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett before Election Day, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) delivered a must-watch speech deconstructing the clear conspiracy of this insidious network of unaccountable dark money groups, which has succeeded wildly in packing the federal judiciary to benefit their dark-money funders. Much of Whitehouse's case cited evidence revealed by the non-profit Center for Media and Democracy (CMD), headed for many years by LISA GRAVES, former Deputy Asst. Attorney General at the U.S. Justice Department, who is now the Executive Director of True North Research. Graves offers deeps insights into Sen. Whitehouse's revelations and the decades-long GOP judiciary conspiracy now in play, the rush to install Barrett on the court to rule on election disputes, the judicial dishonesty of the late Justice Antonin Scalia's myth of "strict constructionism," and whether Democrats should expand the Supreme Court and federal judiciary. Also today:\\xa0 Good news for voters in the courts against the GOP's trench warfare to suppress the vote -- a Texas court has blocked a GOP effort to halt the use of safer curbside voting centers in Harris County (Houston). Alaska's state Supreme Court waived the state's witness signature requirement for mail-in ballots during the pandemic. A Virginia judge has extended Virginia's online voter registration period after technical failures."