About this episode
Ralph Nader discusses the implications of the latest Supreme Court decision on the Voting Rights Act with Adolph Reed and Bruce Fein.
Ralph welcomes back Adolph Reed, Professor Emeritus of political science at the University of Pennsylvania and Distinguished Visiting Professor at Mount Holyoke College to discuss the latest Supreme Court decision gutting the Voting Rights Act. Then, Ralph and our resident constitutional scholar, Bruce Fein, talk about what ordinary citizens can do to pressure their reps to impeach Donald Trump. Adolph Reed is Professor Emeritus of political science at the University of Pennsylvania and Distinguished Visiting Professor at Mount Holyoke College . His most recent books are The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives , No Politics but Class Politics (co-authored with Walter Benn Michaels), and Black Studies, Cultural Politics, and the Evasion of Inequality: The Farce this Time (co-authored with Kenneth W. Warren). I think the issues are a lot more complex than they seem to be or than seems to be the way that they are represented in the debate [over the Voting Rights Act]…To cut straight to the political case, I think there’s a distinction between the Act’s guarantee that black citizens and others (where pertinent) who live in areas where there’s been a history of suppression of the right…
People in this episode
Host: Ralph Nader
Guest: Adolph Reed
Topics covered
- Voting Rights
- Gerrymandering
- Impeachment
- Political Science
- Civil Rights
Keywords
- Voting Rights Act
- Gerrymandering
- Impeachment
- Adolph Reed
- Donald Trump
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: University of Pennsylvania, Mount Holyoke College
Books & works: The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives, No Politics but Class Politics, Black Studies, Cultural Politics, and the Evasion of Inequality: The Farce this Time
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