'BradCast' 6/21/2021 (Guest: Coalition for Good Governance's Marilyn Marks on lawsuit challenging GA's anti-voting law)

On today's 'BradCast':  Republican-controlled state legislatures have filed hundreds of new voter suppression laws around the country since last November's election. While the GOP's Jim Crow-style voting restrictions are garnering the most attention in the corporate media, less noticed are provisions giving GOP-controlled state legislatures the authority to take over elections, remove local election officials, and even overturn legitimate results. A massive new voter suppression law in Georgia also includes measures that target and threaten press freedom with criminal charges for reporting on elections. Brad is the named plaintiff representing journalists in the Coalition for Good Governance (CGG) lawsuit challenging Georgia's SB202 in federal court.  Election Integrity champion Co-plaintiff MARILYN MARKS, voting rights advocate and Executive Director of the non-profit group Coalition for Good Governance, explains the importance of challenging the restrictions on press freedom in the new Georgia law, which criminalizes previously routine reporting on absentee mail ballot processing and tabulation problems and polling place photography, along with a number of extraordinary restrictions that create new opportunities for voter intimidation, will impede the public's ability to obtain information about Georgia's elections, and much more.  Marks also discusses an exciting forum scheduled for Tuesday, June 22, that will examine security issues with new computerized Ballot Marking Devices proliferating around the country. Also today:  Democrats are teeing up a test vote in the U.S. Senate for their sweeping election and campaign finance reform bill, the For the People Act. A new ad campaign seeks to pressure Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) to stop protecting the anti-democratic, Jim Crow-era Senate filibuster rule.