Episode description
How Georgia’s Draconian Voting Restrictions Threaten the Constitution, James Clyburn Says We Can’t Prevent Another Insurrection, and Jemele Hill on Why Athletes Won’t Ever ‘Shut Up and Dribble’
Episode description
This week Farai Chideya talks with Nse Ufot, CEO of the New Georgia Project, and Tiffany Jeffers, Our Body Politic legal analyst, about the ramifications of Georgia’s restrictive new voting law. House Majority Whip James Clyburn on the need to still work across the aisle. Farai asks EunSook Lee, director of the AAPI Civic Engagement Fund, about the growing political power of Asian-American women. And Farai and Errin Haines of the 19th welcome writer Jemele Hill to Sippin’ the Political Tea, our weekly roundtable, to talk about voting rights, politics in sports, and the gender pay gap.
EPISODE RUNDOWN
1:26 Nse Ufot and Tiffany Jeffers on Georgia’s new voting law
13:01 Representative James Clyburn on bipartisanship in Congress
19:16 EunSook Lee on AAPI political organizing across the country
28:02 Sippin’ the Political Tea: the intersection of politics and sports with guest Jemele Hill