Richard L. Hasen is Professor of Law and Political Science at UCLA and director of UCLA Law’s Safeguarding Democracy Project. We discuss his most recent book, A Real Right to Vote: How a Constitutional Amendment Can Safeguard American Democracy.
A country that believes that its people are equal should ensure equal voting rights. However, the US Constitution does not currently protect the right to vote. All adult non-felon citizens should have a constitutional right to vote where they reside. That vote should be equally weighted and eligible voters should not face unnecessary burdens to voting. Furthermore, minority voters should have voter protection and Congress should have broad powers to protect voting rights. Even though the US has not enacted a constitutional amendment since the 1970s, Americans should start thinking about a movement towards passing a voting rights amendment with the expectation that it might take decades. Rich Hasen reminds us that “Nobody is coming to save American democracy. We have to do it ourselves, and people are stepping up.”
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Credits:
Host: Mila Atmos
Guests: Richard L. Hasen
Executive Producer: Mila Atmos
Producer: Zack Travis
Building the Public Square: Rich Harwood
Black Grief/White Grievance: Juliet Hooker
Housing is a Moral Issue: Shaun Donovan
Building a Black Future: Christopher Paul Harris
Have the Conversation: Neal Rickner
Unions and Democracy: Theda Skocpol
Cooperation Democracy: Bernard Harcourt
Shaping Collective Memory: Hajar Yazdiha
Everytown for Gun Safety: Nick Suplina
Making Government Responsive: Sam Oliker-Friedland
Tyranny of the Minority: Steven Levitsky
Radical Acts of Justice: Jocelyn Simonson
The Fear of Too Much Justice: Stephen Bright & James Kwak
America Votes: Sara Schreiber
Maximum Impact Volunteering: Yoni Landau
Hubert Humphrey and Civil Rights: Samuel G. Freedman
America’s Raw Deal: Kurt Andersen
The Right’s Parallel Universe: Anne Nelson
Use Your Footprint for Democracy: David Pepper
Courts for Democracy: Skye Perryman
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