The GOP's Continuing Attacks on Voting Rights in America with Sherrilyn Ifill
Rick Wilson's The Enemies List
Lincoln Square
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🗓️ 20 September 2023
⏱️ 32 minutes
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| 0:01.0 | Resolute Square |
| 0:08.0 | There was also maintain what was called an enemy's list, which is rather expensive and continually being updated |
| 0:16.0 | Immaculate, want to remain like any dead |
| 0:22.0 | Where I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn't lose any voters, okay? |
| 0:28.0 | The women was the least likelihood of getting pregnant, or the ones most worried about having a margin |
| 0:36.0 | On January 6th of 2021, you had tens of thousands of people peacefully protesting |
| 0:42.0 | So, that's not right, we didn't spare fear, it's not queuing on, it's real |
| 0:48.0 | I'm Rick Wilson, and this is the enemy's list |
| 0:53.0 | Joining us today on the enemy's list, we are proud to welcome Sheryl and Ithil |
| 0:57.0 | Sheryl and Ithil is a American civil rights attorney |
| 1:02.0 | She holds the Vernon Jordan Chair of Civil Rights at Howard University, former President Director of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund |
| 1:10.0 | And is one of the people that understands right now the challenges to voting rights and civil rights in the country |
| 1:17.0 | At a level that few other people do with the amount of clarity and resolution that she does |
| 1:23.0 | So, Sheryl, thank you so much for joining us today and welcome to the enemy's list |
| 1:27.0 | Thrilled to be on |
| 1:28.0 | Well, I want to start out by asking you about where you see the status of voting rights in this country right now |
| 1:34.0 | It is something that as a non-attorney and as just an old elections guy, I feel like it is a, that we're facing a mounting set of well-constructed, well-thought-out, very frankly sort of evil |
| 1:47.0 | Challenges to voting rights in the country that I was hoping we could get your perspective on that because I think it's a growing and dangerous movement in the country |
| 1:56.0 | Yeah, that is absolutely true of course it has a very long pedigree and it's important for people to understand that this is not a new phenomenon in American life or in American politics |
| 2:09.0 | And that's part of the story because what we are seeing now is built on a platform |
| 2:15.0 | That was created and existed for a very long time and so the current |
| 2:23.0 | Perveyors of voter suppression and those who are in my view seeking quite deliberately to upend our democracy by essentially manipulating our voting and our election system |
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