'BradCast' 10/21/2020 (Guest: FairVote's David Daley on the rise and someday-fall of the GOP's 'Permanent Minority Rule')
On today's 'BradCast':\xa0 Lawyers really don't like Donald Trump \u2013 even when he pays them millions. Senate Democrats move to delay a vote to confirm Amy Coney Barrett to the US Supreme Court less than two weeks before the presidential election. The very rightwing 5th Circuit rules election workers can discard legal absentee ballots based on perceived signature mismatches without contacting voters first to allow them to cure any perceived problems. It's the type of voter suppression might have been blocked in advance by the Voting Rights Act until the GOP-majority U.S. Supreme Court gutted the law in 2013. The ruling in the infamous Shelby County case was part of a Republican 'Plot for Permanent Minority Rule' run by Karl Rove and the GOP, as expertly detailed by our guest today.\xa0 DAVID DALEY, author and Senior Fellow at FairVote.org, explains his new must-read cover story in The New Republic detailing the full scope of the GOP's successful, national scheme to gain control of state legislatures before the 2010 Census, in order to gerrymander democracy for the next decade and pass restrictions on voting rights with far-reaching consequences. The nation has paid a very steep price ever since, as Republicans in Congress and state legislatures have entrenched minority rule in many battleground states and opportunists like Donald Trump have taken advantage of lost protections for voting rights that haunt America's hobbled democracy today.\xa0 Daley also discusses how democracy can be restored, noting that state legislatures and voting maps are on the line again in the November 3 election. So please VOTE, and vote all the way down the ballot. Plus: a few words from comedy legend Mel Brooks...