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Guest: Steven Rosenfeld is the Editor and Chief Correspondent for Voting Booth, a project of the Independent Media Institute.   Photo by Elliott Stallion on Unsplash The post Voting Controversies: What Could Go Right, What Could Go Wrong appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: David Cay Johnston is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and editor-in-chief of DC Report and author o the book The Making of Donald Trump. The post David Cay Johnston on Trump’s Taxes and the Debate appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Peter Irons is a political scientist, constitutional historian, civil rights attorney, and former prisoner of conscious, as well as professor emeritus of political science at the University of California, San Diego.  He is the author of several books including A People’s History of the Supreme Court: The Men and Women Whose Case and Decisions Have Shaped Our Constitution.   The post Peter Irons on the History of the Supreme Court appeared first on KPFA.

Part 1: What the Senate confirmation process looks like and the parliamentary tactics available to democrats to try to delay the confirmation until after elections. Guest: Caren Morrison is Associate Professor of Law, Georgia State University. She wrote the piece Can Trump and McConnell get through the 4 steps to seat a Supreme Court justice in just 6 weeks? for the Conversation.com Part 2: What the confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett could mean for the judicial branch of government. Guest: Neil Kinkopf is a Constitutional lawyer and a Professor of Law at Georgia State University College of Law.   The post Long and Short Term Implications of an Amy Coney Barrett Confirmation appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: John Burris is a Civil Rights attorney specialized in police misconduct and excessive force cases. He represents families of victims of police brutality in the San Francisco Bay Area. The post Structural Racism: Breonna and the Grand Jury appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Kali Akuno, co-founder and co-director of Cooperation Jackson.  He is also one of the initiators of the People’s Strike and co-editor the book Jackson Rising. The post In Conversation with Kali Akuno: Organizing in Extreme Times appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Robert O. Paxton, the Mellon Professor Emeritus of Social Science at Columbia University and author of The Anatomy of Fascism. The post The Origins of Fascism appeared first on KPFA.

Host Mitch Jeserich compares the legacy of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg to the legacy of Thurgood Marshall and outlines the political battles ahead.   Photo source: Wikimedia Commons. Collection of the Supreme Court of the United States, Photographer: Steve Petteway The post The Historic Significance of RBG and The Fight Ahead appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Sonia Shah, science journalist and author of The Next Great Migration: The Beauty and Terror of Life on the Move. The post The Past, Present and Future of Migration: From Plants to Animals and Humans appeared first on KPFA.

Part I: Senator Sherrod Brown on Congress and Financial Aid. Guest: Sherrod Brown is Ohio’s senior U.S. senator and a leading progressive voice in Congress.  Myths of Free Trade: Why American Trade Policy Has Failed, and his latest, Desk 88: Eight Progressive Senators Who Changed America Part II: An exploration of the relationship between Trump and Fox News Guest: Brian Stelter is the chief media correspondent for CNN Worldwide and anchor of Reliable Sources. He is the author of the new book Hoax: Donald Trump, Fox News, and the Dangerous Distortion of News. The post Senator Sherrod Brown & Brian Stelter appeared first on KPFA.