The debate over President Trump's election commission

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🗓️ 20 July 2017

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Deborah Archer of New York Law School and Derek Muller of Pepperdine University discuss the agenda and challenges of the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity. Read about the 24th Amendment on the National Constitution Center's Interactive Constitution. Continue today’s conversation on Facebook and Twitter using @ConstitutionCtr. We want to know what you think of the podcast. Email us at editor@constitutioncenter.org. Sign up to receive Constitution Weekly, our email roundup of constitutional news and debate. Please subscribe to We the People and our companion podcast, Live at America’s Town Hall, on iTunes, Stitcher, or your favorite podcast app. We the People is a member of Slate’s Panoply network. Check out the full roster of podcasts at Panoply.fm. Despite our congressional charter, the National Constitution Center is a private nonprofit; we receive little government support, and we rely on the generosity of people around the country who are inspired by our nonpartisan mission of constitutional debate and education. Please consider becoming a member to support our work, including this podcast. Visit constitutioncenter.org to learn more. Today’s show was edited by David Stotz and produced by Nicandro Iannacci. Research was provided by Lana Ulrich and Jackie McDermott. The host of We the People is Jeffrey Rosen. Special thanks to Tom Donnelly for serving as host.

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0:00.0	I'm Tom Donnelly, Senior Fellow for Constitutional Studies at the National Constitution
0:09.3	Center and welcome to We The People, a weekly show of constitutional debate.
0:13.6	Jeffrey Rosen is away this week.
0:16.0	The National Constitution Center is the only institution in America chartered by Congress to
0:20.2	disseminate information about the US Constitution on a nonpartisan
0:23.8	basis. On today's show we're going to take a close look at the Presidential
0:27.8	Advisory Commission on Election Integrity, established by Executive Order in May
0:31.9	the Commission is charged with studying the registration and voting processes used in federal elections and will ultimately submit a report to President Trump documenting its findings and recommendations.
0:42.0	In the midst of intense blowback from state officials and multiple lawsuits from public
0:45.6	interest groups, the Commission held its first public meeting this week, with the promise of more
0:49.8	to come.
0:50.8	Who are the members of this Commission?
0:52.4	What's its agenda? Is there merit to the
0:54.2	criticism of the Commission so far? And how should we think generally about the
0:57.9	federal government's role in the administration of state elections? Joining me to discuss
1:01.9	are two leading voting rights scholars who also wrote about the 24th Amendment
1:06.2	for the National Constitution Center's Interactive Constitution.
1:09.2	Deborah Archer is professor of law, co-director of the Impact Center for Public Interest Law and
1:14.1	Director of the Racial Justice Project at New York Law School.
1:17.4	Derek Mueller is Associate Professor of Law at the Pepperdine University School of Law.
1:21.7	Deborah, Derek, thanks so much for joining us. Thank you for
1:24.1	having us. Thank you. Excellent. So Derek, let's begin with you and I just want to
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