'BradCast' 2/8/2022 (Guest: Dan Vicuna of Common Cause on racial gerrymandering)
b"On today's 'BradCast':\\xa0 Although there have been promising developments suggesting the new round of Congressional redistricting may turn out to be more positive for democracy and fair elections than previously thought, another stunning 'shadow docket' ruling from the Republicans' stolen and packed U.S. Supreme Court appears poised to gut what remains of the Voting Rights Act. The high court's rightwing majority stayed a lower court ruling finding that Alabama Republicans violated Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act with their new, racially-gerrymandered House maps that brazenly undercut the voting power of Black voters in the state. SCOTUS is allowing the unlawful racial gerrymander to stay in place for the 2022 mid-terms, and perhaps longer.\\xa0 DAN VICU\\xd1A, National Redistricting Manager for Common Cause, explains both the good news and very troubling news on redistricting around the country, including what the new SCOTUS ruling is likely to mean moving forward for Alabama, for other states, for the future of the VRA, and for American democracy itself. Also today:\\xa0 While the Republican Party appears to be eating itself alive with internal division over its shameful glossing over of\\xa0 the Capitol Insurrection, at the same time, the economy is booming with record job-creation numbers under President Biden and the Democrats. Newly revised job-creation numbers demonstrate the corporate media's double standard when reporting on Republican vs. Democratic administrations, as they fixate on deceptively negative economic data and then fail to update or inform the public about the Biden Boom, while portraying Democrats as being in disarray and facing trouble in the November midterm elections. Plus Desi Doyen has our latest 'Green News Report.'"