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b"On today's 'BradCast':\\xa0 54 years to the day after the Bloody Sunday march in Selma, Alabama led to the landmark Voting Rights Act of 1965, and 6 years after the rightwing U.S. Supreme Court's gutting of that crucial law, Republicans in Congress are both blocking its restoration and working to prevent the Democrats' newly-introduced effort to expand voting rights. Michael Cohen sues the Trump Organization for failing to cover his legal fees, as they had apparently promised. Democratic Senator, Sherrod Brown of Ohio, announces he will not seek the Democratic nomination in 2020. Butler County, PA officials have decided to dump their 100% unverifiable touchscreen voting systems in favor of hand-marked paper ballots. House Democrats will soon vote on HR-1, a massive elections and ethics reform bill that calls for automatic universal voter registration, expansion of early voting, an end to mass voter purges, independent redistricting commissions, and allowing every voter in America to cast their vote on a hand-marked paper ballot, among other crucial measures. Democrats in the House and Senate have introduced a bill to restore the Voting Rights Act to reinstate the requirement for federal government to pre-approve new election-related laws in jurisdictions with a history of racial discrimination at the polls. Naturally, Republicans oppose it. Curiously, some Republicans appear to be shifting away from outright climate change denial to finally admitting that man-made greenhouse gas emissions are responsible for global warming -- if only for appearances -- amid the rising popularity of the recently introduced Green New Deal. Desi Doyen has the latest Green News Report, with disturbing news on toxic coal ash waste in groundwater in 39 states, plastic pollution in the deepest parts of the ocean, and Democrats vowing, as with elections and voting rights, to go on offense in the U.S. Senate..."