3:35pm ET - Wisconsin federal district court Judge Lynn Adelman ruled
yesterday that the state’s voter ID law violated the Fourteenth Amendment and
Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, saying that the law “disproportionately
impacts Black and Latino voters”.
Joining us to discuss this ruling is Ari Berman, a contributing writer
for The Nation magazine and an Investigative Journalism Fellow at The Nation
Institute.
4:45pm ET - An unusual lawsuit in North Carolina is shifting the
conversation about religious freedom.
Clergy from the United Church of Christ have filed suit in a North
Carolina district court Monday, the suit argues that the state's ban violates
gay couples' constitutional right to equal protection, and in a unique twist,
the suit adds that the ban also violates the First Amendment right of members
of the clergy to practice their faith, because the state's ban criminalizes
pastors who bless same-sex unions, leaving clergy open to arrest. Joining us to discuss this new suit is the
Rev. Dr. J. Bennett Guess, who serves as a National Officer of the United Church of Christ and is the first openly gay national officer of the
denomination.
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