Background Briefing: October 19, 2020
Record Turnouts Underway For Early Voting in Texas In Spite of Voter Suppression We begin with the rampant voter suppression going on in Texas where there are long, snaking lines for early voting in heavily Democratic areas after the Republican governor...
Background Briefing: October 18, 2020
We Need Dr. Fauci More Than Ever as Trump Embraces Quackery We begin with warnings from Dr. Fauci that letting the coronavirus spread to achieve herd immunity "quite frankly... is nonsense, and anybody who knows anything about epidemiology will tell you that...
Background Briefing: October 14, 2020
Trump Calls Out His "Army" to the Polls Just As He Called on His Militias to "Liberate" Michigan and Virginia We begin with Trump's call out to an "army" of militia members to act as poll watchers to "Fight for President Trump" as his ad on Twitter says...
Background Briefing: October 13, 2020
In Spite of Routine Assurances Politics Play No Role, Judges' Politics Sway Their Decisions We begin with today's hearings on the nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court in which the candidate gave the same assurances other conservative...
Background Briefing: October 12, 2020
Charles Koch is Funding Amy Coney Barrett to Overturn Restrictions on Carbon Pollution Dooming the Planet We begin with today's opening round of the Senate Judiciary Committee's hearing on the nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court in which Republicans...
Background Briefing: October 11, 2020
Congress is Supposed to Play a Key Role in Invoking the 25th Amendment We begin with the announcement on Friday by Speaker Pelosi and Congressman Jamie Raskin that they are introducing a bill to establish an independent commission under the 25th Amendment to...
Background Briefing: October 8, 2020
Trump's Encouragement of Militia's Takes A Deadly Turn We begin with the arrests today by the FBI and Michigan State Police of six men plotting with members of a branch of the Michigan Militia, the Wolverine Watchmen, to storm the state capitol using explosives...
Background Briefing: October 7, 2020
A Former Catholic Theologian's Open Letter to Amy Coney Barrett We begin with Trump's decision to abandon any hope of a stimulus for struggling businesses and unemployment benefits for millions of Americans afflicted by the pandemic which today Trump described...
Background Briefing: October 6, 2020
Trump Stiffs Needy Americans and Struggling Businesses to Get Barrett on the Court We will begin with Trump's announcement today that he is no longer interested in getting another stimulus bill to needy unemployed Americans and struggling businesses but instead...
Background Briefing: October 5, 2020
Will Amy Coney Barrett Go Down in History as the "Typhoid Mary" of the Supreme Court? We begin with the Amy Coney Barrett Covid superspreader event at the White House which has now claimed the White House Press Secretary and, now that the president has...