Voting rights in the courts

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🗓️ 11 August 2016

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Hans von Spakovsky of the Heritage Foundation and Wendy Weiser of the Brennan Center for Justice explore recent court rulings about the right to vote in America. Get the latest constitutional news, and continue the conversation, on Facebook and Twitter. We want to know what you think of the podcast! Email us at [email protected]. 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 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. This show was engineered by Jason Gregory and produced by Nicandro Iannacci. Research was provided by Josh Waimberg and Tom Donnelly. The host of We the People is Jeffrey Rosen. Many thanks and best wishes to Danieli Evans, who leaves the Center this month.

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0:00.0	We the People Listeners, it's time for another thrilling edition of Ask Jeff on Wednesday, August 24th at 1 PM Eastern Time and live on Facebook.
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0:30.2	August 24th to join the conversation.
0:32.8	Look forward very much to hearing from you.
0:35.0	I'm Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, and welcome to We The People,
0:44.6	a weekly show of constitutional debate.
0:47.2	The National Constitution Center is the only institution in America chartered by Congress
0:51.7	to disseminate information about the U.S. Constitution on a nonpartisan
0:56.1	basis. And today we examine a central constitutional question, and that is the scope of the
1:01.8	right to vote in America.
1:04.3	After the ratification of the 15th Amendment in 1860, many states use poll taxes, literacy
1:09.4	tests, and other means to disenfranchise African Americans.
1:13.7	A century later, the Voting Rights Act of 1965
1:16.8	provided a variety of ways for the federal government
1:19.4	and federal courts to protect the right to vote.
1:22.1	And today we are engaged in a great national debate
1:25.8	about the scope of the Voting Rights Act and constitutional protections for the
1:30.2	right to vote. In recent weeks there have been a series of important decisions
1:35.3	about the scope of the right to vote and joining me to discuss them and the constitutional issues
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