Dejan News: Isaac Brosnahan's Take on Voter Suppression

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Jim Brosnahan tried to stop voter suppression in Arizona in the 60s. He says he has nothing personal against William Rehnquist, just thought country was entitled to know all the facts. When asked what it means to him that it's the exact same tactics being deployed today as was deployed in Arizona and by Operation Eagle Eye in the early 60s,. At my age, oh, no, not again. I really don't like it.

Republicans claim the election was stolen. They use those claims to justify suppressing people’s right to vote. All of it happening amid a national reckoning on race. Rachel Maddow and Isaac-Davy Aronson tell the story of a time uncannily similar to our own – in the early 1960s. And how it’s both a parallel to our present moment and the origin of conflicts playing out today.

Featuring Guests:

Rick Perlstein, historian, author of Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus

Sherrilyn Ifill, Vernon Jordan Endowed Chair in Civil Rights at Howard University and former President and Director-Counsel of LDF.

Jim Brosnahan, lawyer and author of Justice At Trial: Courtroom Battles and Groundbreaking Cases