Voting rights being promoted by President Biden, who gave a speech on Tuesday in Atlanta challenging senators to support voter protection legislation, is discussed by Sherrilyn Ifill, President and Director Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. ‘We've been sounding the alarm long before Trump came to power,' Ifill tells Joy Reid. ‘And we need people to understand this is a democracy issue. This is not a niche issue for Black people.’
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that was just in 2006. now we can t even get a dozen republicans to come up and stand in favor of voting rights. there s something fundamentally wrong that s happened to that party. reverend, neil makes a number of important points, and i want to read a little bit more to you from the new york times reporting. quote, in private calls with voting rights groups and civil rights leaders, white house officials and close allies of the president have expressed confidence that it is possible to out-organize voter suppression. according to multiple people familiar with the conversations. now, i have heard and emphasis on organizing said the president, director-counsel of the naacp legal defense and educational fund who visited the oval office to meet with the president two weeks ago. but, she added, we cannot litigate our way out of this and we cannot organize our way out of this. now, i know you met with the president as well and you have had these conversations both in person and through
minority leader has already spurned even a compromise to combat the historical threats to voter participation. we re watching that in every state that black people live in. we start tonight s show with attorney and law professor sherrilyn ifill, president and director counsel of the naacp legal defense fund. ms. ifill, it has been a long time, and we re so happy to have you back on the show with us, especially this week because obviously i ll be asking some version of this question to our guests later in the show. but you have the honor of being the first tonight to relate your feelings on this historic observance of slavery s existence, really, the first national holiday commemorating the black experience during that part of our past. but it also comes after four years of a racist president,