States Newsroom’s Jonathan Shorman on voting rights, Trump and the GOP’s efforts to cling to power

About this episode

The episode discusses voting rights and the political maneuvers of Trump and the GOP since his return to power.

  Since Donald Trump’s return to the White House, hardly a day goes by in which there is not some brazen, precedent shattering action by the president or his allies. Indeed, the orders, directives, proposals and court rulings are coming at such a rapid pace that it’s easy to become numb to them and what […]

People in this episode

Guest: Jonathan Shorman

Topics covered

• voting rights
• Trump
• GOP
• political power
• court rulings
• politics

Keywords

• voting rights
• Trump
• GOP
• politics
• court rulings
• political power

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Organizations: States Newsroom, GOP

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