franita tolson is vice dean for faculty and academic affairs at the gould school of law, university of southern california. her forthcoming book is "rethinking the constitutional structure of political rights, the evolution of federal voting rights enforcement." from the founding to the dawn of the progressive era. and derrick mueller is professor of law at the university of iowa college of law. he has published widely and before joining the university of iowa, he was a professor of law at pepperdine university, caruso school of law, and a visiting assistant professor at penn state law school. alex, franita, and derrick, thank you all so much for joining. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> let us begin with alex's book, and friends, please consider getting it, because it's a definitive history of the right to vote in america and perfect homework, which i hope you'll be inspired to read after today's discussion. in this important book, alexander, you argue that the right to vote has not been a steady bending of an arc toward justice or toward universal suffrage. instead, it's been a bumpy r

and we do not know when or where cain contracted the virus but 2 weeks after attending the rally in tolson he was hospitalized with breathing problems. his death like so many in the us serves as a cautionary tale a warning that if we choose not to protect ourselves the virus can easily choose and kill us. russia has said that the withdrawal of 12000 u.s. troops from germany announced by the us will promote peace here in europe a spokesman for president vladimir putin said the fewer us soldiers on the continent the calmer it will be trump says that he is pulling out the troops because germany has failed to meet its agreed defense spending target as a proportion of its g.d.p. or force a german reaction to this our washington bureau chief in this poll caught up with thomas sibal who are he's a senior member of germany's defense minister. mr state secretary thank you for making time here in arlington cemetery regarding. the yes or no the term in government you don't care what my kids are almost 1000 is that right. and no of course we are concerned a bit not exclusively because of the withdrawa

tolson: we are going to see a a lot of this. think right now there's covid litigation bending in like 38, 39 states. so the road between here and november will be peppered with these decisions, where you see -- and i hope i'm wrong about this, but i suspect the supreme court will hold the line and not be very protective of the right to vote despite the circumstances? i know at the end of the most recent term, there was a few stories about whether or not the court had drifted more towards the center after this past term. if you look at the voting rights cases, that is not true. this is still a right-leaning court, still a court that's not been protective of the right to vote, and in fact some of the decisions they have made with respect to the covid-related litigation has proven that point. the rnc versus dnc decision, which came out of wisconsin, and sort of last-minute efforts by the governor to sort of close the polls, and then you had people who had filed the paperwork to get absentee ballots, did not receive them, and they w

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franita tolson is vice dean and professor at law at the gould school of law. her forthcoming look is "rethinking the structure of voting rights, from the founding to the dawn of the progressive era." and derrick mueller is professor at the university of iowa school of law. before joining the university of iowa, he was a professor of law at pepperdine university. thank you for joining. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> let us begin with alex's book. friends, please consider getting it because it's a definitive history of the right to vote in america and perfect homework which i hope you'll be inspired to read after today's discussion. in this important book, alexander, you argue that the right to vote has not been a steady bending of an arc towards justice. it's been a bumpy ride with peaks and valleys and you note a series of cases of reversals of the right to vote, for example, women in new jersey had the right to vote until 1807 and lost it for more than a century. african-americans in many northern states had the right to vote at the time of the founding and t

sexual harassment accusations cain was a republican and he was seen last month at the trump rally in tolson oklahoma this video shows him seated in a ocean of people no social distancing no face man. at the time this video was taken the number of new infections was skyrocketing in oklahoma and we do not know when or where cain contracted the virus but 2 weeks after attending the rally in tulsa he was hospitalized with breathing problems. his death like so many in the u.s. serves as a cautionary tale a warning that if we choose not to protect ourselves the virus can easily choose and kill us. russia had said that the withdrawal of 12000 u.s. troops from germany announced by the u.s. will promote peace here in europe a spokesman for president vladimir putin said the fewer us soldiers on the continent the calmer it will be. trump says that he is pulling out the troops because germany has failed to meet its agreed defense spending target as a proportion of its g.d.p. for some german reactions it is our washington bureau chief in this poll called up with thomas sibal horn he's a senior member of

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and back here stateside officials and tolson oklahoma are resuming excavation of mass graves after the pandemic put a halt on their search back in march it's been nearly a century. he after a race riot left as many as 300 black people dead the city plans to dig for graves at 4 different locations later today. and back here stateside smoke is still billowing around parts of san diego after an explosion happened aboard a naval ship on sunday $21.00 people suffered minor injuries and everyone on the ship has been accounted for artie's natasha sweep has more from this ongoing investigation. flames in plumes of smoke surrounding the u.s.s. bonhomme or shard in san diego sunday and today the smoke continues to cloud parts of san diego south bay 21 people suffered minor injuries authorities say 17 sailors and 4 civilians were hospitalized with non-life threatening injuries if said at least one person was treated for smoke inhalation according to rear admiral philip so bad things could have been a lot worse as a 1000000 gallons of fuel reportedly on board the u.s.s. bonhomme as report a 100 pe

and officials in tolson oklahoma are resuming excavation of mass graves after the pandemic put a halt on their search back in march it's been nearly a century after a race riot left as many as 300 black people dead the city plans to dig for graves across 4 different locations today. now. from kovac to territorial integrity at this moment serbia is facing a number of unprecedented challenges the european countries government was reelected just weeks ago and with the pressure on internally and externally it's already being put to the test parties alex know how that has the story of the sporadic violence was. posted to the origin of peaceful protests. demonstrators came out in the thousands over the weekend to voice their discontent about the serbian government's new cold 19 measures a 2nd wave of coronavirus infections has hit serbia and many of its citizens feel that the government hasn't missed handled the crisis to date serbia has had over 800000 registered cases of covert with more than 400 deaths the past couple of days have seen relatively peaceful protests after another night of

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spreading awareness is key to fighting the ivory trade colony tolson hopes education children can help. we go to schools in hong kong because we're very aware that children get very excited about this we also feel that many children don't have a preconceived idea of what they're thinking so they come in with an open mind open mind for discussion and we know they go home they talk to their parents about this and we know this has an effect on the way parents think. mammoth ivory is a substitute for which no living animal has to die. could a regulated trade uncertified ivory reduce the poaching pressure on africa's elephants. critics of the ivory trade ban say a western style approach to conservation has harmed wildlife in africa ignoring traditional practices for animal management for appropriate to the values of local cultures and imposing to kanye and punishments of punching that to date have yielded little to no success. there are many n.g.o.s out there who are really really good and they work with us whether that's save the rhinos in australia it's . in kenya it's our you see and in

robin tolson. >>off to the bay bridge. we go we need to take a look at the trip into san francisco. it is picking up a little bit but it's still not bad to come on in it's friday light so far but no problems on the upper deck or the skyway so looking good so far through san francisco. let's check in on some other bridges, we have the richmond sandra fell busier now compared to the last hour so more folks are hitting the road working their way into the north bay. if that's you you need to get out there as well no problems to worry about on west bound 5.80 into the north bay off to one o one the commute from the north bay to san francisco. we've had some maintenance work underway this morning, but it's not interrupting traffic so far you're looking good. we've had no trouble spots, north or south heading into or out of san francisco. we just started off with the fog advisory doesn't look too bad here so come on and no problems on north or south one on one. >>i don't want to delay. i want to have the election. but i also don't want to have to wait for 3 months and then find out that th