This is Brian Lehrer's Daily Politics Podcasts from WNYC's Studios.

It's Wednesday, July 14th.

I'm Rebecca Ibarra, host of WMYC's Consider This,

and a host in the WMYC Newsroom filling in for Brian Lair, who is on a well-deserved

vacation this week.

Yesterday, at the birthplace of American democracy, President Biden delivered a speech on the

topic of voting rights, taking aim at Trump's so-called Big Lie, which he says is now being used

as an excuse to pass restrictive voting laws in conservative

majority legislatures across the country. Here's a president yesterday.

If you lose, you accept the results. You follow the Constitution. You try again. You don't call

facts fake and then try to bring down the American experiment

just because you're unhappy. That's not statesmanship. That's not statesmanship. That's not

statesmanship. That's selfishness. That's not democracy. It's the denial of the right to vote.

That was President Biden yesterday in Philadelphia. And elsewhere in the speech, he implored Congress to pass voter legislation, namely the For the People Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act.

And though his tone was emphatic, President Biden offered few specifics on how Democrats

might pass a voting bill through a narrowly divided Congress and remain silent on the filibuster,

which stands in the way of any voting legislation in the Senate.

With us now to talk about the president's speech and fights over voting laws playing out across

the country is Ari Berman, senior reporter at Mother Jones covering voting rights and author

of Give Us the Ballot, the Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America.

Ari, welcome back to WMYC.

Hey, Rebecca. Good to talk to you.

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