What do the census, voting rights and democracy have in common?
Emails made public by the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University Law School recently showed that officials under President Donald Trump tried whatever they could to rig the system for redistricting purposes. It and other government documents detailed clashes between the administration and the bureau’s experts in areas that had the potential of affecting the count and who gets elected. Mary C. Curtis sits down with Kelly Percival, with the Brennan Center’s Democracy Program to discuss what this all means.
Show Notes:
- ‘Beat them in court, beat them in Congress and beat them at the polls’
- The fight for Black and brown children
- The politics of equity 2021
- What do the battle against omicron and HUD Secretary Marcia Fudge have in common?
- ‘What has come of America?’