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Supreme Court Very Willing to Throw Out Ballots
This week, three Supreme Court justices demonstrated that they are perfectly willing to throw out absentee ballots. The court ruled in favor of reinstating a witness signature requirement for South Carolina voters and going forward, the state will be able to disregard ballots that don’t have them. Even worse, three Supreme Court justices — Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, and Neil Gorsuch — were ready to rule that ballots without witness signatures could be thrown out retroactively.
The idea that the court would be okay with throwing out ballots that were received before this ruling was handed down is insane. It’s just as insane as forcing absentee voters, some of whom are going to be COVID positive, to get a witness to agree that the voter is who they claim to be. Right-wingers simply don’t care about voting rights and expanding voter access because they know it doesn’t help them. If this election is close and the Trump campaign contests the results, it’s quite possible the Supreme Court will decide the election and we cannot leave it in their hands.
BREAKING: Trump Must Turn Over Tax Returns
A new investigation into Donald Trump’s business practices has led to a court ruling ordering the President to turn over his tax returns. The case goes back to a decision by a grand jury in New York moving to subpoena eight years of Trump’s taxes. The President’s attorneys challenged the decision in the US 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals and lost three votes to zero. Trump still has a decent chance at avoiding the release of his taxes, as he was given twelve days to appeal the court’s decision, which he is of course doing. Jay Sekulow, the President’s attorney, says they will now appeal to the Supreme Court where they expect to get a ruling in their favor.
The underlying story here is that Donald Trump is becoming unglued and is absolutely losing his mind. The polls have him down by an average of ten percentage points to Joe Biden, he is personally battling the coronavirus, and the remaining debates now might not happen because of his own doing. Having to live in fear of his tax returns getting out is just one more agitator. The New York Times has already released plenty of data from Trump’s recent tax filings but seeing the actual documents would be definitive proof and reveal a whole lot more about Trump’s failings.
From yesterday’s show:
Trump Humiliates Himself in Farcical Fox Interview
Donald Trump went on Maria Bartiromo’s Fox Business show yesterday morning in what was the President’s first interview since being treated for coronavirus. Trump sounded absolutely unhinged, once again calling for Joe Biden, Barack Obama, and Hillary Clinton to be imprisoned for crimes he can’t articulate. He said that Biden has a “very thin hand” and called Kamala Harris a “communist.” As the interview was ending, Trump blurted out “why isn’t Hillary Clinton being indicted?” in what was a bizarre non sequitur and a throwback to the 2016 campaign. Either the President is having a manic episode from the drugs he’s been given or this is just how crazy the man is.
--More on the show:
--Caller wonders if Republican senators getting COVID will delay the Supreme Court vote
--Caller asks why Trump ended stimulus package negotiations
--Caller asks for David's opinions about South American leaders
--Caller is an ER doctor on the front lines against coronavirus
--Caller asks how to shut down the "Biden is a socialist" argument
--Caller talks about progressives who won't vote for Joe Biden
--Caller discusses key Senate races
--Caller wonders how the Trump White House managed its own COVID outbreak so horribly
--Audience Question: Does Trump getting coronavirus help or hurt his reelection odds?
--Audience Question: When will we know the results of the 2020 election?
--Audience Question: Why are older voters abandoning Trump?
--On the Bonus Show: Producer Pat reviews forecasting models for the 2020 election, and much more...
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