BradCast' 11/1/2016 (Giant Meteor 2016! Plus: Ernest A. Canning on GOP 'voter intimidation' lawsuits and key CA ballot initiatives)
The reverberations from FBI Director James Comey's unprecedented and evidence-free announcement last week concerning a potential new aspect of the agency's investigation of Hillary Clinton's emails continues to rock the 2016 Presidential Election, just one week before Election Day. Polling is moving back in Donald Trump's direction and we discuss other concerns that are not reflected in polling. Then, BradBlog.com's legal analyst Ernest A. Canning joins us to discuss several lawsuits filed by the DNC over the weekend charging 'voter intimidation,' under the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871, by the Trump campaign and state GOP operations in Nevada, Ohio, Pennsylvania and North Carolina. All of that follows on a decades-long consent decree barring the Republican National Committee from certain poll-watching activities - a restriction they agreed to after using racially-based intimidation tactics at polling places in the early 1980s.\xa0 Then, Canning describes a number of state initiatives on the California state ballot next week that will have an effect on prescription drug prices, legalized marijuana, the death penalty and much more...