On this edition of Your Call, David Daley discusses his new book, "Antidemocratic: Inside the Far Right's 50-Year Plot to Control American Elections."
He says we need to understand how we got here. The takeover of US elections began in a memo. Drafted in 1971 by Lewis Powell, a soon to be Nixon appointee to the high court, helped lay the groundwork for the modern war on voting rights.
Ten years later, a young lawyer named John Roberts joined Ronald Reagan’s Department of Justice to bring down the Voting Rights Act. In 2013, Supreme Court Justice John Roberts pulled it off by gutting what Daley calls one of the most consequential decisions in modern jurisprudence.
Guest:
David Daley, author of the bestseller, "Ratf**ked: Why Your Vote Doesn’t Count," and "Unrigged: How Americans are Battle Back to Save Democracy," and former editor-in-chief of Salon
Resources:
Slate: There’s a New Lewis Powell Memo, and It’s Wildly Racist
Vote Beat: Under Wisconsin’s ‘drawdown’ election law, one person’s error can cost another person their vote
USA Today: New Georgia law makes voter intimidation easier, critics say; affects Black voters most
