INTERVIEW WITH RICHARD L. HASEN, Author of A Real Right to Vote, Election Meltdown, Cheap Speech, and The Voting Wars

President Lyndon B. Johnson signing the 1965 Voting Rights Act

EXCERPTS FROM THE INTERVIEW WITH RICHARD L. HASEN:

     “Louisiana v. Callais will bleach the halls of Congress, state legislatures, and local bodies by ending the protections of Section Two of the Voting Rights Act, which had provided a pathway to assure that voters of color would have some rudimentary fair representation.  It’s the culmination of the life’s work of Chief Justice Roberts and Samuel Alito, who have shown persistent resistance to the idea of the United States as a multiracial democracy …. It protects Alito’s core consistency:  aggrieved white Republican voters.  It’s a disaster for American democracy.”