'BradCast' 12/17/2021 (Guest: Marilyn Marks of Coalition for Good Governance on GA voter suppression lawsuits)

Published: Dec. 18, 2021, 4:01 a.m.

On today's 'BradCast':\xa0 Longtime GOP dirty-trickster and Trump pal Roger Stone invoked his 5th Amendment right against self-incrimination in testimony to the U.S. House Select Committee investigating Donald Trump's incitement of the U.S. Capitol Insurrection on Jan. 6. The Select committee is homing in on whether Trump violated the law to 'obstruct or impede Congress's official proceedings to count Electoral Votes.' A federal judge denied a Fox 'News' motion to dismiss the $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against it brought by the Dominion Voting Systems company. In Georgia, a Trump-appointed federal judge has allowed eight different lawsuits to proceed against Georgia's SB202, a draconian new voter-suppression and election subversion law rammed through by Republican state lawmakers after voters elected Democrats Joe Biden, and Senators Rafael Warnock and Jon Ossof.\xa0 Seven of the suits focus largely on race-based violations of the Voting Rights Act. MARILYN MARKS, Executive Director of the non-partisan Coalition for Good Governance, discusses the eighth case, which seeks to defend non-partisan election administration and the free press, by challenging SB202's election subversion clause allowing the state to take control of county election boards and election outcomes. Brad is representing the media as a plaintiff, challenging provisions that block the public and the media from conducting basic oversight and reporting functions. Marks also discusses new developments in several crucial areas of election integrity and security, including a lawsuit in which a report by election security expert Dr. Alex Halderman was ordered sealed by a judge, because it found so many disturbing security vulnerabilities in GA's electronic voting systems...