Ballot Battles (with Michael Waldman)

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Society & Culture, Politics, Government, News

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🗓️ 23 April 2020

⏱️ 72 minutes

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On this week’s episode of Stay Tuned with Preet, "Ballot Battles," Preet answers listeners’ questions about online learning, mail fraud, and the Equal Time Doctrine. Then, Michael Waldman, President of the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, joins Preet for a discussion about voting. To listen to Stay Tuned bonus content, become a member of CAFE Insider. Sign up to receive the CAFE Brief, a weekly newsletter featuring analysis of politically charged legal news, and updates from Preet. As always, tweet your questions to @PreetBharara with hashtag #askpreet, email us at [email protected], or call 669-247-7338 to leave a voicemail. REFERENCES & SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIALS THE Q&A “As School Moves Online, Many Students Stay Logged Out,” New York Times, 4/6/20 47 U.S. Code § 315: Candidates for public office, Legal Information Institute 18 U.S. Code § 1341: Frauds and swindles, Legal Information Institute Stay Tuned: Blame Today On the 70s (with Kevin Kruse & Julian Zelizer), 1/24/19 THE INTERVIEW The Fight to Vote, Simon & Schuster (2017) “How to Protect the 2020 Vote from the Coronavirus,” Brennan Center for Justice, 3/16/20 Stay Tuned: Gunning for the 2nd Amendment? (with Michael Waldman), 1/15/19 HISTORY OF VOTING RIGHTS: President Abraham Lincoln, Last Public Address, 4/11/1865, Abraham Lincoln Online “The 1913 Women’s Suffrage Parade,” The Atlantic, 3/1/13 Voting Rights Act of 1965, U.S. Government National Archives Recordings of President Lyndon B Johnson’s phone calls, DiscoverLBJ “Confrontations for Justice,” The National Archives Michael Waldman, “The Right to Vote? Don’t Count on It,” Brennan Center, 2/29/16 THE CONSTITUTION: 15th Amendment, National Constitution Center 17th Amendment, National Constitution Center 19th Amendment, National Constitution Center SUPREME COURT DECISIONS: Shelby County v. Holder (2013), Oyez Rucho v. Common Cause (2019), Oyez Lamone v. Benisek (2019), Oyez Republican National Committee v. Democratic National Committee (2020), SCOTUSblog VOTER FRAUD & SAFETY: Justin Levitt, “The Truth About Voter Fraud,” Brennan Center, 11/9/07 Watch: Voter ID Laws, “The Colbert Report,” Comedy Central, 7/20/11 “Trump Disbands Commission on Voter Fraud,” New York Times, 1/3/18 Tweet featuring Wisconsin Assembly speaker telling voters it’s safe to go out, 4/7/20 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:55.9	From Cafe, welcome to Stay Tune. I'm Pete Barara. We've always had people who have had
1:03.1	to demand the effective right to vote or to be represented and other people have been
1:07.7	trying to stop it. And that debate throughout American history is playing out right now,
1:13.2	both in recent years but in recent weeks and months around the coronavirus.
1:19.2	That's Michael Waldman. He's the president of the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU
1:23.0	Law School, a nonpartisan law and policy organization that works to reform, engage, and defend
1:28.4	America's democratic systems. Waldman, a constitutional law scholar and lawyer, is also
1:34.1	the author of several books, most recently the Second Amendment and the fight to vote.
1:39.7	And that's exactly what Waldman joined me to discuss today, the story of the right
1:43.9	and the fight to vote in America. As the country gears up for November's election in the
1:48.5	midst of a pandemic, we dive into the contentious history of this constitutional right to make
1:53.3	sense of today's battles over the fairness and safety of our voting systems. That's
1:57.9	coming up, Stay Tune.
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