{"id":12215,"date":"2017-07-11T18:07:36","date_gmt":"2017-07-12T01:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=12215"},"modified":"2017-07-12T17:56:17","modified_gmt":"2017-07-13T00:56:17","slug":"kobachs-voter-fraud-commission-facing-federal-lawsuits-suppressing-votes-bradcast-7112017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/?p=12215","title":{"rendered":"Kobach’s ‘Voter Fraud’ Commission Facing Federal Lawsuits, Suppressing Votes: ‘BradCast’ 7\/11\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

On today’s BradCast<\/i><\/a>, we’re still trying to keep our eye on the ball, as Trump and the Republicans work to take away both health and voting rights even as the nation is otherwise consumed with new breaking news in the ongoing criminal investigations of Team Trump. [Audio link to show is posted below.<\/i>]<\/p>\n

First up today, a few comments on the news regarding Donald Trump, Jr.’s meeting<\/a> with a Russian attorney during the campaign last year and the federal election laws<\/a> he may have violated<\/a> in the bargain<\/a>. But, with everyone else in the world covering that story today, fewer are covering the ongoing plans by the Senate GOP to try and repeal the health care for millions of Americans in exchange for tax cuts for the wealthy, possibly as early as next week, according to<\/a> a top Senate Republican. And, if not next week, shortly thereafter, as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has now cancelled<\/a> much of the August recess in hopes of jamming both ObamaCare repeal and a major tax cut scheme through Congress before Summer ends.<\/p>\n

Similarly, with all of the noise regarding the incompetence and\/or corruption of Team Trump, it’s important to keep an eye on their ongoing efforts at voter suppression via Trump’s so-called “Election Integrity” Commission which has already resulted in voters around the nation removing<\/a> themselves<\/a> from registration roles for fear that Commission Vice-Chair and notorious “voter fraud” fraudster Kris Kobach will publicly release the personal information of registered voters, such as birthdate, social security number, military status, etc., as he recently promised in a letter to all 50 states seeking that data.<\/p>\n

But, as Kobach has made a career<\/a> out of pretending<\/a> there is a massive voter fraud<\/a> epidemic and threatening prosecution against voters for small and often inadvertent violations of the law, you’d think his Commission would follow the rule of law to the letter. That does not appear to be the case, however, as at least four different legal complaints<\/a>, alleging violations of federal law, have already been filed against Kobach and the Commission over the past week, even as even more notorious GOP ‘voter fraud’ fraudsters are being quietly added<\/a> to the Presidential panel.<\/p>\n

THERESA LEE<\/b>, staff attorney at the ACLU’s Voting Rights Project<\/a>, one of the groups which have filed legal complaints against the Commission, joins us to explain their lawsuit [PDF]<\/a> charging multiple violations of the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA), how this Presidential Commission on elections is wildly different from those created in the recent past, and what it is that Kobach and friends are really up to under the sham Commission’s pretext<\/a> of combating ‘voter fraud’.<\/p>\n

“One of the main purposes of the Act was public accountability, the idea that if the government is getting advice, it should not be biased advice, and the public should know what’s going into it,” Lee tells me, describing the extraordinary imbalance<\/i> of the Trump-Pence-Kobach Commission and the secrecy under which it has so far been operating.<\/p>\n

Finally today, it’s the return of the Green News Report<\/i><\/a> with Desi Doyen after a week off over the holidays, and just in time for another heat wave across much of the country, embarrassment at the G-20, and both good news and bad in California…<\/p>\n

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On today’s BradCast, we’re still trying to keep our eye on the ball, as Trump and the Republicans work to take away both health and voting rights even as the nation is otherwise consumed with new breaking news in the ongoing criminal investigations of Team Trump. [Audio link to show is posted below.] First up […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[675,543,479,1007,594,451,392,680,656,477,654,853,497,625,534],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bradcast","category-climate-change","category-donald-trump","category-donald-trump-jr","category-election-2016","category-epa","category-hans-von-spakovsky","category-j-christian-adams","category-jerry-brown","category-kpfk","category-kris-kobach","category-mike-pence","category-mitch-mcconnell","category-nvra","category-russia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}