Episode 38: Expanding Voting Rights in Virginia w/ State Sen. Jennifer McClellan & State Del. Cia Price

Episode 38: Expanding Voting Rights in Virginia w/ State Sen. Jennifer McClellan & State Del. Cia Price

Bucking the trend of other states passing restrictive and repressive voter suppression laws in response to Trump's Big Lie, the commonwealth of Virginia is bucking this trend by passing its Voting Rights Act, with the novel idea that all citizens have the right to vote. What led to the first Southern state--and the first state previously covered by "preclearance" in the 1965 Voting Rights Act--to pass a bill expanding voting rights? Virginia State Sen. Jennifer McClelland and State Del. Cia Price join Jefferson to discuss the passage of the Virginia Voting Rights Act.

Virginia, the Old Confederacy's Heart, Becomes a Voting Rights Bastion (New York Times)

Virginia is Poised to Approve Its Own Voting Rights Act (NPR)

Voting Rights of Virginia Enacted, Providing Sweeping Reform and Protection for Commonwealth Voters (Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law)

Norman Lear: As I begin my 100th year, I'm baffled that voting rights are still under attack (Washington Post)