OA188: Three Cases About Voting Rights
Today's episode takes a look at three recent decisions from this Supreme Court and how each one will affect voting in the midterm elections:\xa0 Husted v. Randolph Institute, Abbott v. Perez, and (surprisingly)\xa0Janus v. AFSCME. First, though, we begin by addressing a conspiracy theory that's making the rounds suggesting some nefarious relationship between Anthony Kennedy's son, Justin, and Donald Trump.\xa0 Does this story hold water?\xa0 Listen and find out! Then, we break down each of the three cases:\xa0 Husted, involving Ohio's efforts to purge voters from its rolls;\xa0Abbott, involving Texas's efforts to racially gerrymander Congressional districts; and\xa0Janus, which will result in drastically weaker public sector unions.\xa0 What does this mean for the midterms?\xa0 (Hint: it's not good.) Finally, we end the answer to Thomas Takes The Bar Exam #82 regarding the search and seizure of heroin from plain sight.\xa0 Remember to follow our Twitter feed (@Openargs) and like our Facebook Page\xa0so that you too can play along with #TTTBE! Recent Appearances Thomas was just a guest on Episode 421 of the Cognitive Dissonance Podcast.\xa0\xa0If you'd like to have either of us as a guest on your show, drop us an email at openarguments@gmail.com. Show Notes & Links
- If you missed last year's Fourth of July Spectacular, that was Episode 83.
- You can read the Liptak & Haberman\xa0New York Times article about Trump and Kennedy by clicking here.
- The Ohio case is Husted v. Randolph Institute, and the Texas cdase is Abbott v. Perez.
- Before you read Janus v. AFSCME,\xa0you may want to check out our extensive coverage of the case back in Episode 150.
- The statute the 5-4 majority blatantly ignores in\xa0Abbott is\xa028 U.S.C. \xa7 1253.
- Finally, this is the research Andrew mentioned regarding the correlation between right-to-work states and lower voter turnout\xa0and lower Democratic share of the vote.