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EPISODE · Apr 27, 2026 · 44 MIN

They are chasing the tail of the dragon to make it harder to vote

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The dizzying assault by this administration on our constitutional right to vote is memorialized in The Save Act, which has so-far failed in the Senate, and in state houses bent on disenfranchising Black Americans. My guest this week, Alex Ault, Senior Policy Council at the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, expects to see more versions of legislation marketed by the White House and members of Congress as voting security, a solution to a problem that does not exist. He points to the influential community, this nation's 8,000 poll workers and election officials who have argued, successfully, that their ability to administer fair elections would be jeopardized by requiring documentary proof of citizenship, that would exclude married women with name changes and trans people from voting. We look back at the origin story of the Lawyers Committee, launched in 1963 after President John F. Kennedy called upon private bar attorneys to leverage their collective clout to fight for civil rights. The call to action reverberates today. And Alex shares the origin story that makes him a powerful champion for justice.

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