'BradCast' 9/7/2018 (Guest: Salon's Amanda Marcotte)

Published: Sept. 8, 2018, 1:12 a.m.

On today's show:\xa0 Reported results from the Delaware primary elections. In Florida, a federal judge ordered 32 counties to immediately provide Spanish-language election materials in compliance with the Voting Rights Act to assist U.S. citizens dislocated from Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria. Kansas Sec. of State Kris Kobach, a longtime GOP "election fraud" fraudster and now the state's Republican nominee for Governor, has no comment on a Republican state house candidate arrested on election fraud charges. The circus of Senate confirmation hearings for Trump's U.S. Supreme Court nominee, Republican activist turned D.C. Court of Appeals Judge Brett Kavanaugh, wrapped up with new disclosures about Kavanaugh's record as a operative in the George W. Bush Administration, which Senate Republicans had tried to withhold from the public. Salon.com political reporter Amanda Marcotte discusses what we've learned -- and haven't -- about Kavanaugh, the threat he poses to women's healthcare rights, his disingenuous and misleading statements about whether he consider Roe v. Wade to be "settled law\u201d, and Senate Democrats' surprisingly united and aggressive attempt to block his confirmation. Several lines of questioning from Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) this week, the release of so-called "committee confidential" documents by Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) -- at threat of Senate expulsion -- underscore the con that both Republicans and the activist Judge Kavanaugh are attempting to pull off on the American public. Finally, former President Barack Obama reemerged on Friday to deliver a pointed address to students at the University of Illinois, offering some advice and inspiration regarding the importance of voting in this November's midterms and elections beyond them...