Intimidation of State and Local Officeholders with Maya Kornberg
The Lawfare Podcast
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🗓️ 22 February 2024
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
As a new report on the intimidation of state and local officeholders from the Brennan Center for Justice points out, “The January 6 insurrection at the Capitol seemed to mark a new peak in extremist intimidation targeting public officials. But it was hardly the only act of political violence to break the period of relative stability that followed the assassinations of the 1960s.” Citing the 2017 shooting of Rep. Steve Scalise, last year’s hammer attack on Paul Pelosi, and many other cases, the report paints a troubling picture of today’s climate of political violence in America.
To talk through the report and its implications, Lawfare Senior Editor Quinta Jurecic and Lawfare Managing Editor Tyler McBrien sat down with Maya Kornberg, a Research Fellow at the Brennan Center’s Elections and Government Program and one of the report’s authors. They discussed how Maya and her team surveyed so many state and local officials across a number of jurisdictions, the pervasive risks and threats those officeholders face, and how these threats are distorting U.S. democracy as a whole.
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| 0:27.0 | About 39% of local office holders in our survey said that they were less likely to run for |
| 0:40.7 | re-election as a result of the abuse and for women in local office it was even |
| 0:46.8 | higher we had about half say that they were less likely to run for re-election. Now, especially for women, local and state positions |
| 0:55.9 | are often stepping stones to a national office. |
| 1:00.1 | The fact that this abuse is making women less likely to run is really problematic as a pipeline issue |
| 1:07.9 | when we're looking at a Congress that is already not representative of women and we're looking at a lot of other offices that |
| 1:17.2 | already have women severely underrepresented. |
| 1:20.6 | I'm Tyler McBrien managing editor of Law Fair and this is the Lawfare |
| 1:25.4 | podcast February 22nd, 2024. As a new report on the intimidation of state and |
| 1:31.1 | local office holders from the Brennan Center for Justice |
| 1:33.0 | points out, quote, the January 6th insurrection at the Capitol seemed to mark a new peak in extremist |
| 1:37.9 | intimidation targeting public officials. |
| 1:40.4 | But it was hardly the only act of political violence to break the period of |
| 1:43.2 | relative stability that followed the assassinations of the 1960s end quote |
| 1:47.7 | Citing the 2017 shooting of representative Steve Scalise |
| 1:50.7 | Last year's hammer attack on Paul Pelosi, and many other cases. |
| 1:54.7 | The report paints a troubling picture of today's climate of political violence in America. |
| 1:59.8 | To talk through the report and its implications, Lawfair, senior editor, Quinta Jurassic, and I, sat down with Maya Cornberg, a research |
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