I'm Jeffrey Rosen, President and CEO of the National Constitution Center, and welcome to the latest of our We the People, Constitutional Podcasts.

The National Constitution Center is the only institution in America chartered by Congress to disseminate information about the

U.S. Constitution on a nonpartisan basis.

And this week we will be discussing among the most hotly contested questions of this Supreme Court term,

as well as our political season, and that is the constitutional dimensions of the right to vote.

On November 12th, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in two

combined cases from Alabama that challenge the organization of the state's legislative districts, and

we also have a number of lawsuits underway in the states including

North Carolina, Texas, Wisconsin, and Ohio involving voting rights. Just this

week the Supreme Court delayed the start of early voting in Ohio and the

Fourth Circuit blocked part of North Carolina

slate of new election rules. Joining me to discuss this timely and important issue

are two of the nation's leading experts on voting rights.

Rick Hasen is the Chancellor's Professor

of Law and Political Science at UC Irvine School of Law.

He's an expert in election and campaign finance law and author of the

indispensable and justly popular election law blog. John Eastman is the Henry

Salvatore Professor of Law and Community Service and former Dean at the Chapman University Fowler School of Law.

He is Director of the School's Constitutional Jurisprudence Clinic.

Rick, let's jump right in.

You wrote a great piece recently for your blog and it was called the Voting Wars

Heat Up and you really summarize the basic issues which unite the Alabama

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