The perilous legal landscape
Just Politics30 Loka 2023

The perilous legal landscape

Some threats to democracy, such as the insurrection on January 6, 2021, are lawless and loud. But others draw on the workings of the law to turn them against democracy itself. In this episode we talk to Celina Stewart, chief counsel and senior director of advocacy and litigation for the League of Women Voters, about those threats. They include gerrymandering, restrictive voting laws, and other measures enacted at the state level and through court decisions—most notoriously, the Supreme Court's 2013 Shelby County v. Holder, which gutted portions of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

You can learn more about Celina Stewart and her work at the links below:

More on Celina Stewart
https://www.lwv.org/about-us/staff-leadership/celina-stewart

More on the League of Women Voters
https://www.lwv.org/

Background on Shelby County v. Holder
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/court-cases/shelby-county-v-holder

How do democracy issues relate to building up the common good? Check out this deep dive from Virginia Schilder at NETWORK.
https://networklobby.org/build-anew-series-democracy-102923/

Just Politics is sponsored by the Claretian Missionaries.
https://claretiansusa.org
https://myclaret.org

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