On Monday, the Justice
Department released an amicus brief in a case, currently before the Supreme
Court, over whether Ohio can continue to remove “infrequent voters” who fail to
cast a ballot over a six-year period. IN the brief the DOJ sides with the state
of Ohio in a case that could allow states to cancel registrations for thousands
of voters. Joining me today to talk all
about the DOJ’s amicus brief and the Trump administration’s support of the
GOP’s voter suppression efforts is Ari
Berman who is a senior reporter at Mother
Jones, covering voting rights and the author of Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America.
Back in July, the
Vatican-vetted journal La CiviltÃ
Cattolica published an article by two close associates of Pope
Francis in which they argued that American Catholic ultraconservatives
have made an alliance of “hate” with evangelical Christians to back Trump. The article has become controversial in
American Catholic circles and highlights the widening distance between Pope
Francis and some American Catholic conservatives. Joining me today to talk all about the
article the dynamics of the relationship between the Vatican and the American
Catholic Church is professor of theology and religious studies at Villanova
University Massimo Faggioli. Massimo is also a contributing editor to Commonweal magazine a journals about religion,
politics, and culture edited by lay Catholics.
Since
we last spoke with Mark Joseph Stern
of Slate last week a lot has
happened, from Jeff Sessions possibly gearing up to launch a crackdown on
Marijuana laws to Massachusetts’ Governor siding with Trump over the State
Supreme Court on Immigration Mark returns to the show today to talk all about
these issues and so much more.
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