Hello fellow law nerds. Welcome to our first episode of Boom Lawyard for 2018.

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We love you. We also somehow managed to survive 2017 and a year of Trump as president and

Republicans in charge of basically everything. But it's a brand new year. It's 2018. We have

midterm elections and people are fed the fuck up. So hopefully we can build on that.

We can build on Democratic wins in places like Alabama, Alabama people. And May 2018 the year,

we start taking shit back. Seriously, let's start taking shit back this year. But if we're going to do

that, we're going to have to deal with all the barriers to voting that Republicans have tossed up, things like voter ID laws and the over 30 states

that have them, or folks getting kicked off registered voting rolls in places like Ohio,

those kinds of things. This episode, we're going to take a look at some of the biggest

voting rights fights happening as we head into the 2018 midterms. And we're going to get a look at some of the biggest voting rights fights happening as we head into the 2018 midterms.

And we're going to get to some listener questions and reviews. So strap in. It's going to be a bumpy ride.

So 2018 started out with a good dose of voting rates news. Probably most importantly, President Trump

announced that he was disbanding his voter suppression, I mean his quote unquote voter integrity

commission headed up by Mike Pence and Chris Kobach. That commission was set up to find evidence

that millions of illegal voters by which Trump obviously meant brown, cost him the popular vote to Hillary Clinton.

I'm pretty sure that being completely unqualified and a certified jackass is what cost him

the popular vote. I feel like that's a pretty safe bet. So anyway, soon after the commission went

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