Host Carol Castiel and assistant producer on the Present Affairs Desk, Sydney Sherry, discuss with Eliza Sweren-Becker, counsel within the Democracy Program on the Brennan Middle for Justice, concerning the impression of the wave of restrictive voting legal guidelines emanating from principally Republican state legislatures. Sweren-Becker additionally discusses the implications of the current U.S. Supreme Court docket ruling upholding the state of Arizona’s new restrictive voting legal guidelines, the Division of Justice’s lawsuit in opposition to the state of Georgia, and the erosion of protections below the landmark Voting Rights Act of 1965.
