'BradCast' 12/1/2020 (SCOTUS hears Trump Apportionment Scheme, w/ Dan Vicuna, Common Cause)

Published: Dec. 2, 2020, 2:55 a.m.

On today's 'BradCast':\xa0 US Attorney General William Barr may be in big trouble with Donald Trump after announcing that the Justice Dept. has found no fraud in the 2020 election 'on a scale that could have affected a different outcome'.\xa0 Chris Krebs, the recently-fired Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) that oversees elections infrastructure, got it only half-right when he said that 'paper ballots' are necessary for election security \u2013 in reality, for reasons we detail, it is crucial to clarify that HAND-MARKED paper ballots protect elections, a critical difference from computer-marked paper ballot summaries that, after an election, can never be proven to reflect the voter's intent. Trump lawyer Joe DiGenova called for Krebs to be executed for calling the 2020 election secure, a chilling sign of our times that should result in DiGenova's disbarment. DAN VICU\xd1A, National Redistricting Manager at Common Cause, discusses what happened during oral arguments before the Supreme Court in Trump's latest attempt to game the Census and apportionment of Congressional seats for the next decade. Despite the Constitution's plain language mandating the counting of all persons residing inside the United States, Trump hopes to monkey-wrench the U.S. Census apportionment data to exclude out non-citizens. Vicu\xf1a explains that citizenship status has NEVER been used as a determining factor in the Census count, and how and why the unprecedented change would endanger not only the immigrant population, but everyone else in America, even in so-called 'red' states. Plus Desi Doyen has some very good news (along with the usual bad news) in our latest 'Green News Report'.