'BradCast' 2/9/2017 ('First Lies, Then Laws' - Guest: Michael Slater of Project Vote)

Published: Feb. 10, 2017, 1:24 a.m.

b"A story out of France today proves that things could be much, MUCH worse. That said, civil rights opponent Jeff Sessions of Alabama was confirmed as the U.S. Attorney General largely on party lines, save for West Virginia's Democratic Senator Joe Manchin who voted for him. Should Manchin be primaried, or is the fight for a Democratic majority as a check against Trump and the GOP more important? Next, are Democrats taking the bait by taking the side of Trump's stolen Supreme Court nominee Neal Gorsuch, who claims to be 'disheartened' by Trump's recent attacks against a federal judge? Then: after new AG Sessions takes office and immediately lies about violent crime statistics, what would he be willing to lie about in order to make it harder for Democratic-leaning Americans to vote? Michael Slater, President and Executive Director of Project Vote joins us to discuss not only the 'voter fraud' myths being perpetuated by Trump, but how American voters need to start working NOW on how to prevent voter suppression and assure the right to vote going forward. Finally, Desi Doyen joins us for the latest 'Green News Report', plus breaking news that the 3-judge panel on the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has unanimously rejected Trump's bid to restore his stayed Executive Order banning immigrants from seven majority-Muslim countries..."