'BradCast' 10/5/2022 (Guest: Dan Vicuna of Common Cause on Alabama's voting rights challenge at SCOTUS)
b"On today's 'BradCast':\\xa0 What remains of the landmark Voting Rights Act is in danger yet again, thanks to the Republicans' stolen-and-packed U.S. Supreme Court majority. The state of Alabama is seeking to subvert the VRA's prohibition on racial discrimination in voting laws and redistricting in its effort to restrict Black voters, who are one-fourth of the state's population, to one majority House district out of seven total in the state. New Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson outfoxed the rightwing majority by using an 'originalist' defense for consideration of race in voting laws as the framers explicitly intended.\\xa0 DAN VICU\\xd1A, National Redistricting Manager at Common Cause, explains Justice Jackson's ingenious defense of the VRA, why the VRA is necessary to protect voting rights for all, and how various potential rulings by the Court's corrupt, far-right supermajority will affect the future of what is left of the VRA. Also today: New reporting reveals that top Republicans knew many months ago, but did not care, about credible documentary evidence that Georgia Republican US Senate nominee Herschel Walker paid for his girlfriend to obtain an abortion, belying Walker's and the Republican Party's professed anti-abortion beliefs. Longtime GOP leaders, pundits and media influencers, who have long pretended to be 'family values ' and 'conservative,' have come up with myriad justifications to continue supporting Walker because they need him to win back the Senate majority next month. A federal appeals court handed down another procedural win to the Justice Department in its criminal investigation of Donald Trump's theft of thousands of White House documents\\u2026"