Special favorite of the law comment in the validation of the public accommodations provision reaches less far than has been conventionally imagined. Bradley is preserving the availability of the statement concept. He is preserving it in a context where the republican administrations are making headway and are using Voting Rights theory that he has already provided. He is saying, in this context where you are already using 16th amendment exemption in federal amendment law, im keeping the state neglect law available. He is the one that first made it available in 1874. It was the klan lawyers that attacked his theory before the court in 1876. This was his first chance since then to be articulated and re articulate it he does. Its vital to see that. Newspapers see this. Newspaper coverage sees this concept of the state neglect in civil rights cases. Again, i give you an excerpt from the chicago tribune. Lots of coverage of the Supreme Court cases in the reconstruction era. The tribune the
He is very explicit about this. He says what is not now decided is whether these provisions could be upheld under the congress clause. That is not decided as well. What is clear is that bradleys favorite of the law comment reaches less far juridical he\\\ly that has been imagined. Bradley is preserving it in the context where republican administrations are making headway and are using the Voting Rights theory that he has already provided. This context, we are using 15th amendment exemption and federal elections law i am keeping this concept available. He is the one who first made available in 1874, and it was the klan lawyers who attacked his theory in 1876. This is his first chance since then to rearticulate it. It is vital to see newspapers sevis see this. Newspaper coverage sees this concept. I have given you an excerpt the tribune the black citizen enjoys everywhere the same clinical and civil rights they are calling the vote a civil right. The same political and civil rights under
Can we adjust to that new world. He served as the special master of the redistricting plan for many states and his current work examines the impact of changing technology for Political Communications and andtion administrations that is what he will be talking about here today. That, welcome nate. [applause] thank you so much. Its an honor to be here and on this panel. The table andset they will break the china. I will talk about the issues and they are going to does this is a deep dive anyway. They will dive deeply into it. Topic. S is a big the question of how the internet affects democracy. What are the unique challenges that the internet poses for democracy. , what would reforms look like . I want to start with a few caveats, which there are several always get these objections whenever i talk about democracy and the internet, which is we have all seen this before. That is the first academic disagreement. And the answer is, yes. Some of these problems we have seen before. Yes, we hav
Used the tactic in past conflict. He spoke at the think tank new america in washington dc. This is one hour and a half. Now let me introduce fred. Perhaps his most important distinction i would say is that he worked previously as an american fellow but he has done one or two other things in his illustrious career. He is the National Security columnist and author of four books the most recent book which i think is here to tell us and has at least gone over with this new book that some one might not necessarily imagine. Fred is a Pulitzer Prize journalist back in his days at the boston globe and i am very pleased to be able to host him here today. On the format, shortly we will allow fred to give him a minute to describe the book and tell us about it what is in it and then i will take the opportunity to have a conversation, dig into a little more and explore some of the themes and what we might conclude that. Then i will open it up to the floor to give you the opportunity to ask fred som
Professor of law at stanford law school. His scholarship focuses on Voting Rights, political parties, Campaign Finance, redistricting, and elections administration. He served as special master for expert to craft districting plans for many straight and senior director for the Election Administration and his current work examines changing technology on political communications, campaigns, and Election Administration. Broadly that is what he will be talking about here today. With that, lets welcome nathan. [applause] thank you so much. It is an honor to be here. And it is an honor to be on this panel. We have a lot of people following me. My role is to set the table and they are going to break the china. I will talk about the issues and they will dive deeply into it. Obviously,ig topic dealing with the question of how the internet affects democracy. I want to focus on three questions. Want to focus on three questions. The first is what are the unique challenges that the internet poses fo