Voting Rights Symposium - Defending Voting Rights through State Constitutions

Anita Earls, Ari Berman, Dale Ho, Franita Tolson, Joshua Douglas, state constitutions, Voting Rights, Voting Rights Act, Voting Rights Act of 1965, Voting Rights Symposium

Katie O'Connor

American Constitution Society
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Ari Berman

The Nation
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Joshua Douglas

University of Kentucky College of Law
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Anita Earls

Southern Coalition for Social Justice
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Dale Ho

ACLU Voting Rights Project
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Franita Tolson

Florida State University College of Law
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On March 19, 2015 ACS hosted the Symposium on Voting Rights in the States. Experts discussed the new state of voting rights in a day long symposium in Atlanta, Georgia. The first panel of the day considered how litigators and voting rights advocates could use state constitutions to protect the right to vote.

The panel featured:

Ari Berman, Contributing Writer, The Nation
Joshua Douglas, Robert G. Lawson & William H. Fortune Associate Professor of Law, University of Kentucky College of Law
Anita Earls, Executive Director, Southern Coalition for Social Justice
Dale Ho, Director, ACLU Voting Rights Project
Franita Tolson, Betty T. Ferguson Professor of Voting Rights, Florida State University College of Law