Death by One Thousand Cuts: The Continued Weakening of the Voting Rights Act
Mon., September 9, 2024 | Noon-1 p.m.
Hofstra Law Room 230 | RSVP
SPEAKER
Marcia Johnson, Co-director, Lawyers’ Committee Voting Rights Project
Marcia Johnson is the co-director of Lawyers’ Committee’s Voting Rights Project. She manages the Project’s voter engagement programs and advocacy portfolios which include overseeing the work of Election Protection, the nation’s largest non-partisan voter protection coalition; promoting engagement in the census and the redistricting process; researching the history of discrimination in voting; advocating for the restoration of the full protections of the Voting Rights Act and promoting national and state-based electoral reform legislation that ensure access to the ballot; and advocating for the restoration of voting rights for those with felony convictions Read more
COMMENTARY
Professor James Sample, Professor of Law, Maurice A. Deane School of Law
For more information contact Professor Theo Liebmann at theo.liebmann@hofstra.edu