The only way to protect voting rights is by this thing called the Fifteenth Amendment. That Fifteenth Amendment which has been stuck in a locker for most of its life, except for the voting rights act, which John Roberts eviscerated in twenty-thirteen.
That’s it.
If you don’t have people willing to protect the Fifteenth Amendment then you don’t have voting rights. It’s as simple as that.
Elie Mystal
There were a lot of quotable moments in this podcast episode:
I might eventually get around to writing more about the other subjects in the episode if I ever get more than a few consecutive minutes to write in.