Kevin Morris

He is based in Sacramento.

Kevin T. Morris is a senior research fellow and voting policy scholar at the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University, where he focuses on voting rights, election administration, and the effects of the criminal justice system on political participation.

His work has been published in journals such as Science Advances and American Political Science Review.

Morris' work has been cited by state and federal courts, including the US Supreme Court, and his congressional testimony has informed legislative debates about the Voting Rights Act.

This has arguably been the primary cleavage in American political life for living memory, essentially.

Joining me to talk about that today is Kevin Morris, who has just written a book on exactly that.

Kevin, welcome to the podcast.

Thanks so much for having me on.

And they have evidence to show that not only are fewer Americans of color casting ballots in the aftermath, but that even those votes that are able to be submitted count for less in recent elections.

Kevin Morris is senior research fellow and voting policy scholar at the Brennan Center for Justice at the New York University School of Law.

His new book, written with Michael Miller, is called An American Problem, How the Country Built and the Supreme Court Broke the Voting Rights Act.

Kevin, welcome to Think.

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not congress itself and so things like term limits for the supreme court and an actually enforceable code of ethics for the supreme court that's extraordinarily important here too so we both need to keep the pressure on congress to do legislation to pass legislation to enforce the fifth amendment but also put congress put pressure on congress to actually do meaningful court reform.

Kevin Morris is senior research fellow and voting policy scholar at the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law.

His new book, written along with Michael Miller, is called An American Problem, How the Country Built and the Supreme Court Broke the Voting Rights Act.

It's also available in paperback.

I'm pleased to be joined by the book's authors today, Michael Miller and Kevin Morris, who I will now introduce.

Michael Miller is a professor of political science at Barnard College.

He teaches American elections, parties, political behavior with a particular focus on election administration and party organization.

He's also the author or co-author of several books, including Small Power and Subsidizing Democracy.

He holds a Ph.D. from Cornell University.

I'm also joined by Kevin Morris, who is a senior research fellow and voting policy scholar at the Brennan Center for Justice at the NYU School of Law.

His work has appeared in the American Political Science Review and the Journal of Politics, as well as the New York Times and the Washington Post.

called An American Problem, How the Country Built and the Supreme Court Broke the Voting Rights Act.

Michael Miller and Kevin Morris, this just came out and you see it here, how they built and broke the Voting Rights Act.

But even as the New York Times, and you've got to end gerrymandering, it's not just political, it's racist.

Yeah, we understand that.