New York Review contributor Sue Halpern hosts the attorney and voting rights expert Marc Elias for a wide-ranging conversation on threats to American voting rights, including gerrymandering, campaign financing, and the SAVE Act.
Sue Halpern is a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books, and also writes on technology and politics for The New Yorker, The New York Times, The New Republic and many other publications. Halpern is the author of eight books, most recently the novel “What We Leave Behind,” and is a scholar-in-residence at Middlebury College. Halpern holds a doctorate from Oxford University.
Marc Elias is the Firm Chair of Elias Law Group, a mission-driven firm committed to helping Democrats win, citizens vote, and progressives make change. Marc is a nationally recognized authority and expert in campaign finance, voting rights, redistricting law, and litigation. He has successfully argued and won four cases in the U.S. Supreme Court, as well as dozens of cases in state supreme courts and U.S. courts of appeal, and has successfully represented several House and Senate candidates in post-election litigation, recounts and challenges. Marc is also the founder of Democracy Docket, the leading digital news platform dedicated to information, analysis and opinion about voting rights and elections in the courts.
About this series
The New York Review of Books is pleased to announce a series of virtual events on the most pressing issues emerging from the second Trump administration. In each conversation Review contributors and esteemed guests discuss critical subjects, including immigration, political violence, the rule of law, the state of the left, and more. Each event, held on Zoom, will last ninety minutes and include an audience Q&A session. All events are pay-what-you-wish (with a suggested fee of $10) and open to the public.
