From the ECLU, this is at Liberty.

I'm Molly Kaplan, your host.

On Wednesday, pro-Trump loyalists stormed the Capitol in an effort to prevent Congress from certifying the Electoral College decision

to elect Vice President Biden to be the next president of the United States. At the ACLU, we watched aghast like many of you at home.

What we saw was a dangerous attack on American democracy. We know that we will be dealing with the

consequences of the events that took

place for quite some time, but we wanted to come together to respond to the moment, particularly

focusing on moving forward with electoral integrity and a deeper commitment to racial justice.

On this special episode of At Liberty, you'll hear experts from the ACLU in conversation.

Monica Hopkins, the executive director of the ACLU of the District of Columbia, who will also act as moderator.

Jeffrey Robinson, ACLU's deputy legal director and director of the Trone Center for Justice and Equality.

And Dale Ho, director of theCLU's Voting Rights Project.

Hello, everyone, and thank you for joining us.

I'm Monica Hopkins.

Before we begin, I just wanted to take a moment

and elucidate for folks what is going on on the ground here in the District of Columbia.

These events that have happened at the Capitol for residents of the District of Columbia

have been going on not just the taking of the capital, but we have seen proud boys and

violent clashes of white supremacists in our city over the last month. And local activists have raised

the flag, including notifying city officials of their concerns

for an all-out civil war coming to the District of Columbia. So these are deeply disconcerting.

And the District of Columbia is in a very precarious place.

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