Ralph Neas on Advocating for Civil Rights

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Joe Trippi

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🗓️ 5 October 2021

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Ralph Neas, prominent civil rights leader, joins Joe and Alex this week to discuss the power of coalition and strength in united numbers, specifically in human, constitutional, and civil rights. Ralph shares his insight on how the GOP could "turn back the clock" many decades and undo a lot of the important bipartisan, pro-democracy strides we have made. Election subversion and voter suppression threaten to disenfranchise millions of Americans and undermine our democracy. The Supreme Court Really Matters: Huffington Post Op-Ed Chronology: How the Arizona Senate Audit in Maricopa County Is an Assault on Voting Rights Response: The Truth Behind the Results of the Maricopa County Election AuditSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/that-trippi-show/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey everybody it's Joe Trippy and welcome back to that Trippy show.
0:11.6	We're really excited for this week's show.
0:14.1	This week, Alex and I are joined by a great friend of mine,
0:18.6	Ralph Niece.
0:20.6	Nice, gosh, a Republican until he was 50.
0:25.0	We've caught cross paths along the way.
0:30.0	Both of us worked for Senator Kennedy for years and Ted Kennedy once called him the
0:36.5	101 senator for civil rights. He led the fight against Robert Bork and I really regard him as one of the nation's foremost
0:46.8	civil rights leaders and I'm not the first person to call him that.
0:49.7	Ralph, welcome to the show. It's good to be back with you, Joe.
0:54.0	We, you know, I know you again from the time with Kennedy,
0:59.0	people for the American way,
1:01.0	when we were fighting a fights in the Supreme Court and other things
1:05.6	there together. But I wanted to ask you how you got into all this. I mean it's a
1:11.5	fascinating story of 50 years as a
1:14.8	Republican and then and then leading the fights and the battles that you have.
1:19.2	Both nonpartisan great success at doing that on bipartisan civil rights laws, and then what
1:27.9	you've done with the fight against Fork and other things.
1:31.9	I just wanted to see how did you get how did you get into this?
1:34.8	Really fortunate Joe in so many ways after graduating from Notre Dame in Chicago Law School and the Army.
1:43.6	I got a job, my first job, is the chief legislative assistant
1:48.4	to Senator Edward W. Brooke.
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