'BradCast' 2/16/2024 (Encore: Legal expert Chris Geidner on 8th Circuit ruling that may finally kill the Voting Rights Act)

Original airdate 1-31-2024. On today's 'BradCast':  In a split ruling, the rightwing majority on the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals this week let stand a shocking lower court ruling based on the absurd premise that neither voters nor private organizations like the NAACP have the right to sue to enforce the Voting Rights Act. The ruling flouts decades of precedent to allow the use of gerrymandered voting maps in Arkansas that discriminate against Black voters, and is likely headed to the U.S. Supreme Court. CHRIS GEIDNER, veteran legal journalist at Law Dork, explains the gob-smacking series of rulings from rightwing-majority appeals courts and what they could mean for voting rights going forward and what remains of the Voting Rights Act. Also today:  new revelations suggest that far-right, pro-Trump propaganda outlet One America News (OAN) may have violated the law in obtaining and distributing passwords of employees at voting system vendor Smartmatic, in its effort to boost Donald Trump's and Republicans' baseless claims that the 2020 election was stolen.