If you think the monster is actually, truly dead now, it’s only because you still need to watch more horror movies. You’ll have to listen to today’s show for most of the juiciest details, but among the stories covered today on today’s very busy BradCast [Audio link to show is posted below summary.]
- Not satisfied with helping to assure the deaths of nearly 300,000 Americans during the COVID crisis so far, the swamp-filled Trump Administration ignores their own EPA scientists to join the polluters of the fossil fuel and chemical industries to block a rule that would require a slight decrease in particulate soot that would save more than 10,000 American lives a year. Because of course they do;
- Loyal Trump henchman and Attorney General Bill Barr reportedly considering quitting before he’s fired by Trump for having the temerity to admit there is no known evidence that would turn the loser Trump into a winner in the 2020 election;
- More than 1,500 lawyers — some of them former former federal judges, prosecutors and law professors — call for bar associations to investigate the “historic abuse of the legal system” by Team Trump attorneys, like the COVID-stricken Rudy Giuliani and the execrable Joe diGenova (who called for a former federal official to be “shot” because he believed the 2020 election was secure) to be held accountability for their behavior. The letter cites false claims of “massive fraud” by Trump’s attorneys, even as those same attorneys concede in court case after court case — they and their allies have lost about 50 cases at this point — that they have no actual evidence of fraud;
- After losing at least five different cases in five different swing-states on Friday alone, Trump continues his record as a loser on Monday, with an Obama-appointed federal judge in Michigan tossing one case, and a George W. Bush appointed-judge in Georgia tossing the other. Both rulings were brutal dismissals;
- The President’s false claims of a stolen election continue to have very serious consequences, as an armed MAGA Mob on Saturday night descended on the personal home of Michigan’s Secretary of State to terrorize her and her children as they were preparing for Christmas;
- Also down in Georgia today, the state’s Trump-supporting Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger — who, along with the state’s Trump-supporting Gov. Brian Kemp, has been mercilessly attacked by Trump — re-certified the state’s Presidential election finding Biden won it by about 12,000 votes. The new certification comes after the election night machine count, a statewide hand count, and a third statewide count by machines as requested by the Trump Campaign. He lost every single time by about the same numbers in all three tallies;
- On Saturday morning, the President of the United States violated the law in a call to the Republican Governor of Georgia to try and convince him to take action to toss out the election results and direct the state legislature to declare the loser Trump to be the winner. To Kemp’s credit (a phrase I thought I’d never type), he refused to do what Trump demanded. To Trump’s wrap-sheet, he has added yet another violation of law in trying to interference with an election. 45 days until legal accountability for Trump’s many crimes should begin;
- On Saturday night, Trump went down to Georgia — where he’s in a bind, cause he’s way behind — to hold a rally for the two incumbent Republican Senators facing a tough challenge in their U.S. Senate runoffs on January 5th, where controls of the U.S. Senate is at stake. Trump spent most of the nearly two-hour long rally whining about losing the election as he repeated phony, long-ago debunked claims to continue hoaxing the MAGA Mob into believing it was stolen from him and that they are all “victims”. The two U.S. Senators spoke for about 30 seconds each;
- Finally, despite Trump’s unsullied record of embarrassingly losing case after case, trying to overturn the will of the voters in both state and federal courts around the country — in cases overseen by Republican and Democratic judges alike, including several that he himself appointed — U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito took an action over the weekend that has a few Court watchers justifiably unsettled. As we reported on last Friday’s BradCast, Alito agreed to consider an appeal to a case filed by U.S. Rep. Mike Kelly (R-PA), seeking to toss out Pennsylvania’s results and award the state’s electors to Trump. The matter was correctly dismissed by lower courts, but Alito has agreed to consider it and, late last week, scheduled this Wednesday, Dec. 9, as the deadline for defendants to file their rebuttal. That was key, because Wednesday is the day after the so-called “Safe Harbor” date under federal law, when all state Electoral College contests are supposed to be settled, at least at the state level, on Tuesday, Dec. 8. Last week, election law experts saw Alito’s late date for defendants to reply as a message that he would not be taking any actions that might change the electoral count. But on Sunday morning, Alito changed that deadline to the morning of Tuesday, “Safe Harbor” day. What does that mean? And should we be worried that the monster isn’t really, truly dead just yet? We discuss…
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Barr & Drumpf = Cheney & GWB but there was no knock down drag out incident…damn where’s that link ;P
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