'BradCast' 9/4/2019 (Guest: NC's Dr. William 'DocDawg' Busa)
On today's 'BradCast':\xa0 Good news for democracy, for a change, out of North Carolina where the state's high court panel ordered the GOP-dominated state legislature to redraw state House and Senate maps before the 2020 elections, ruling the current maps are an unconstitutional partisan gerrymander. NC election expert and campaign consultant DR. WILLIAM BUSA of EQV Analytics, known as "DocDawg" at Daily Kos, breaks down what the ruling means for NC voters in the crucial 2020 swing state, and the potential impact Hurricane Dorian may have on voter turnout in two U.S. House Special Elections set for next Tuesday, September 10. Also today:\xa0 Hurricane Dorian is crawling northward, threatening Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and even Virginia with massive storm surges and power outages predicted in coming days. A federal court judge has temporarily restored the press pass for Playboy's White House correspondent Brian Karem, revoked by the Trump Administration following a kerfuffle with disgraced former Trump adviser Sebastian Gorka. The NRA attacked Walmart as "shameful" after the superstore chain announced it is changing its policies on gun and ammo sales and asked shoppers to stop openly carrying weapons in their stores in the wake of a recent mass shooting in a Walmart store in El Paso. The gunman in the latest mass shooting in Odessa, TX failed a federal background check but was able to obtain a weapon through the "gun show loophole" that allows for private sales without a background check \u2013 a loophole that NRA-controlled Republicans in Congress have refused to close for years. President Trump bizarrely tried to justify his false -- and potentially unlawful \u2013 assertions about Hurricane Dorian threatening the state of Alabama by producing a clearly doctored map to justify his obviously wrong claims...