'BradCast' 10/22/2020 (Guest: Attorney Ron Fein of Free Speech for People on new federal voter intimidation lawsuit against Trump and Barr)
On today's 'BradCast': Joe Biden has proposed a bipartisan commission to study federal court system reform to counter years of Republican court-packing, if he wins the election \u2013 we discuss whether this is a smart political position for him to take right now. Senate Republicans broke their own Judiciary Committee rules to ram through the 'sham' nomination of Amy Coney Barrett, without a single Democrat present. The GOP's already-stolen Supreme Court has blocked safer curbside voting for disabled and elderly voters in Alabama, as requested by Republican Sec. of State John Merrill, ignoring CDC recommendations and in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act.\xa0 Trump's Director of National Intelligence John Ratclifffe hastily convened an absurd press conference to declare that Iran was behind threatening emails sent to Democratic voters in some states, without providing any supporting evidence; skepticism of the administration's claims is warranted, short of independently verifiable information. The Legal Director of the non-partisan good government organization Free Speech for People, RON FEIN, explains the new federal lawsuit filed on behalf of the Latino civic engagement group Mi Familia Vota Education Fund and individual voters, charging that Donald Trump, Attorney General Bill Barr and Acting Sec. of Homeland Security Chad Wolf are violating federal laws against voter intimidation.\xa0 Fein also discusses a related federal lawsuit to stop a private mercenary contractor who has posted job listings seeking armed former special ops troops to patrol polling sites in the Minnesota. Plus Desi Doyen joins us for our latest 'Green News Report'...