'BradCast' 7/22/2020 (Guest: Thomas Wolf of Brennan Center's Democracy Program)
b"On today's 'BradCast':\\xa0 Last week, Donald Trump promised (threatened) to roll out a slate of initiatives over the next eight weeks, beginning with immigration. On Tuesday, Trump unveiled an Executive Memorandum (not an Executive Order), declaring non-citizen immigrants should not be counted when determining the next Congressional apportionment from the 2020 Census, contrary to the plain language of the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. Constitutional law and Census expert THOMAS WOLF of the Brennan Center's Democracy Program explains exactly what Trump can and cannot do in his blatantly racist attempts to cheat on Census numbers that are used for the apportionment of crucial federal funding and congressional representation. Wolf says the way to fight back is to 'get counted' \\u2013 if your household has not done so already, please go fill out the form TODAY at 2020Census.gov. Also today:\\xa0 more than 1,000 Americans died in a single day from COVID-related illnesses on Tuesday, the biggest jump since May, underscoring yet again that the U.S. is headed in the wrong direction in dealing with the pandemic.\\xa0 Trump threatened to withhold federal funding from schools that don't fully re-open, despite new polling showing the vast majority of Americans disagree with holding in-person classes. The 2020 state primaries are ongoing, with Arizona, Kansas, Michigan, Missouri and Washington State coming up on August 4th.\\xa0 In Kansas, things aren't going well for notoriously failed GOP "voter fraud" fraudster and former Kansas Sec. of State Kris Kobach in his quest for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate -- Establishment Republicans are pushing for anyone but Kobach, and Democrats, including the presumptive Democratic nominee, state lawmaker Barbara Bollier, are pushing for Kobach to win, for good reasons..."