Nicholas Fandos, congressional correspondent for The New York Times, talks about our nation’s inconstant history on voting rights, his perspective on why voting rights are currently under siege across the country, and what can be done to protect our most inalienable right as Americans.
In spite of our country’s most basic democratic principles, the struggle for voting rights has been consistent throughout our history. But, in the face of voting right suppression, the inability of Congress to enact meaningful voting rights reform, and the efforts of a number of Republican-led states to restrict voting have many concerned about the state of our democracy.
Nicholas Fandos, congressional correspondent for TheNew York Times, has covered Capitol Hill since 2017. He talks about our nation’s inconstant history on voting rights, his perspective on why voting rights are currently under siege, and what can be done to protect our most inalienable right as Americans.