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The Briefing with Michael WaldmanPam Bondi's “Ransom” Letter (with Wendy Weiser)Following the second killing of an American by ICE agents in Minneapolis, Attorney General Pam Bondi sent a letter to Minnesota Governor Tim Walz linking the violence in Minnesota to a demand that the state give the Justice Department complete access to the state’s voter rolls, among other requests.It’s an outrageous and unambiguous abuse of power. It’s also part of a broader strategy to undermine elections heading into the 2026 midterms. Listen as experts break down what has happened and discuss how we can both respond to ICE and protect our elections in this troubl...
2026-01-2824 min
Radio AmericaWeird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories - Something Bent The Iron Fence From The Inside | A Creature That Has Been In City Park For 300 YearsWhen a man saw something lurking in New Orleans City Park in 2010, he had no idea the natives who lived there centuries ago had described the exact same creature.IN THIS EPISODE: The creature had dark or black skin covered in masses of “skin or fins” that looked like algae growing all over its body. It seemed to have gills or matted hair that looked like gills on its face and head; two yellow eyes leered out from under a prominent forehead. That’s the description one witness had for the thing in City Park, New Orleans. (The City Par...
2026-01-2556 minWeird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime StoriesSomething Bent The Iron Fence From The Inside | A Creature That Has Been In City Park For 300 YearsWhen a man saw something lurking in New Orleans City Park in 2010, he had no idea the natives who lived there centuries ago had described the exact same creature.IN THIS EPISODE: The creature had dark or black skin covered in masses of “skin or fins” that looked like algae growing all over its body. It seemed to have gills or matted hair that looked like gills on its face and head; two yellow eyes leered out from under a prominent forehead. That’s the description one witness had for the thing in City Park, New Orleans. (The City Par...
2026-01-2556 minThe Briefing with Michael Waldman2025: Year in ReviewThis year we saw extraordinary threats to American democracy: an executive power grab, attacks on the freedom to vote, and more. Yet we also saw a growing response, from court rulings to citizen alarm. What happened? And what can we expect next?Speakers:Sean Morales-Doyle, Director, Voting Rights and Elections ProgramWendy Weiser, Vice President, Democracy ProgramDaniel I. Weiner, Director, Elections and Government ProgramKatherine Yon Ebright, Counsel, Liberty and National Security ProgramModerator: Michael Waldman, President and CEORecorded on December 16, 2025.K...
2025-12-231h 05The Briefing with Michael WaldmanBush v. Gore and the State of U.S. ElectionsFor a generation, presidential races were blowouts. Every winner between 1980 and 1996 won by at least 37 Electoral College votes. These landslides relegated conspiracy theories about contested elections to the political fringes.Then came 2000. The last polls showed a dead heat. On election night, the networks called it for Al Gore, then retracted their calls, then called it for George W. Bush, and retracted again.Ultimately, five Supreme Court justices, all appointed by Republican presidents, put an end to the recount underway in Florida and effectively declared Bush the winner. The fractured opinions were a maze of...
2025-12-161h 13The Briefing with Michael WaldmanThe Next Phase of the FightChallenges to democracy intensified over the summer. The National Guard deployed in California. The Supreme Court ruled on presidential power using the shadow docket. In Texas, an egregious gerrymander has set off a partisan war nationally. Now the fall will mark the next phase of the fight for the Constitution. Will the rule of law hold? How will the 2026 election unfold?Brennan Center experts discuss some of the biggest news stories of the past three months and explore what will come next in the struggle to uphold democratic values. Speakers:Kareem Crayton, Vice P...
2025-09-0947 minThe Briefing with Michael WaldmanPresidents Don’t Control Our ElectionsPresident Trump’s new executive order could disenfranchise millions of American citizens, undermine data security, and decertify voting systems across the country. It would give DOGE access to voter records in every state and decertify every voting machine in the United States, costing states hundreds of millions of dollars. Coupled with the SAVE Act, a voter suppression bill that would require every American to provide a document like a passport or birth certificate to register or re-register to vote, these measures could block millions of eligible American citizens from voting and upend voter registration.Listen to...
2025-04-0450 min
Slate Daily FeedAmicus | Trump’s Plan To Put A Chokehold On VotingThe Trumpian inversion of reality was threaded into so many areas of the law and active litigation this week. Slate senior writer Mark Joseph Stern joins Dahlia Lithwick to discuss the apparent evaporation of judicial patience for Trump lawyers simultaneously claiming that a signal chat was not classified or subject to record preservation rules, AND the flights to El Salvador that were filmed for posterity on arrival at a prison were in fact state secrets. Together, they also think through the likelihood of the Supreme Court stepping into the Alien Enemies Act case at t...
2025-03-291h 15
Slate NewsAmicus | Trump’s Plan To Put A Chokehold On VotingThe Trumpian inversion of reality was threaded into so many areas of the law and active litigation this week. Slate senior writer Mark Joseph Stern joins Dahlia Lithwick to discuss the apparent evaporation of judicial patience for Trump lawyers simultaneously claiming that a signal chat was not classified or subject to record preservation rules, AND the flights to El Salvador that were filmed for posterity on arrival at a prison were in fact state secrets. Together, they also think through the likelihood of the Supreme Court stepping into the Alien Enemies Act case at t...
2025-03-291h 15
Slate Crime and JusticeAmicus | Trump’s Plan To Put A Chokehold On VotingThe Trumpian inversion of reality was threaded into so many areas of the law and active litigation this week. Slate senior writer Mark Joseph Stern joins Dahlia Lithwick to discuss the apparent evaporation of judicial patience for Trump lawyers simultaneously claiming that a signal chat was not classified or subject to record preservation rules, AND the flights to El Salvador that were filmed for posterity on arrival at a prison were in fact state secrets. Together, they also think through the likelihood of the Supreme Court stepping into the Alien Enemies Act case at t...
2025-03-291h 12
Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courtsTrump’s Plan To Put A Chokehold On VotingThe Trumpian inversion of reality was threaded into so many areas of the law and active litigation this week. Slate senior writer Mark Joseph Stern joins Dahlia Lithwick to discuss the apparent evaporation of judicial patience for Trump lawyers simultaneously claiming that a signal chat was not classified or subject to record preservation rules, AND the flights to El Salvador that were filmed for posterity on arrival at a prison were in fact state secrets. Together, they also think through the likelihood of the Supreme Court stepping into the Alien Enemies Act case at this early s...
2025-03-291h 09
WDR ZeitzeichenPeter Pan: Der Traum, niemals erwachsen zu werdenDas hat das Londoner Theaterpublikum noch nicht gesehen: James M. Barrie setzt ihm mit" Peter Pan" an diesem 27.12.1904 Elfen, fliegende Kinder und Piraten vor. Und macht Erwachsene wieder zu Kindern.In diesem Zeitzeichen erzählt Christiane Kopka:wie chaotisch die Uraufführung im Londoner "Duke of York’s Theatre" verläuft,welches Trauma den Dramatiker James Matthew Barrie zu "Peter Pan" motiviert hat,mit welcher Tiermetapher er in der Geschichte die verrinnende Zeit und den Tod ausdrückt,warum Barries Beziehung zu Kindern immer wieder Spekulationen auslöst,wie unterschiedlich das "Peter-Pan-Syndrom" heute von Pop-Sta...
2024-12-2715 min
Composer Chats1.2 - Dana WilsonJoin Jason Nitsch as he welcomes composer Dana Wilson to the podcast!The works of Dana Wilson have been commissioned and performed by such diverse ensembles as the Chicago Chamber Musicians, Formosa Quartet, Xaimen Symphony, Buffalo Philharmonic, Memphis Symphony, Dallas Wind Symphony, Voices of Change, Netherlands Wind Ensemble, Syracuse Symphony, Tokyo Kosei Wind Orchestra, the trio STRATA, and Canadian Brass. Many college ensembles and faculty members have performed and recorded his music.Solo works have been written for such renowned artists as hornists Gail Williams (international soloist, formerly with the Chicago Symphony) and Adam Unsworth...
2023-10-1740 min
Seminars at SteamboatWendy Weiser: "Elections on the Brink: Where We Are and Where We Need to Go to Ensure Fairness and Integrity"Wendy Weiser directs the Democracy Program at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, a nonpartisan think tank and public interest law center that works to revitalize, reform, and defend systems of democracy and justice. Her program focuses on voting rights and elections, money in politics and ethics, redistricting and representation, government dysfunction, rule of law, and fair courts. She founded and directed the program’s Voting Rights and Elections Project, directing litigation, research, and advocacy efforts to enhance political participation and prevent voter disenfranchisement across the country.She has appeared frequently in national prin...
2023-07-211h 19
Fruitloops: Serial Killers of ColorE160: The Legend of Queho LIVE at CrimeCon(note: time stamps are without ads & may be off a little)At this CrimeCon live taping, Beth and Wendy talk about Queho, a Native American man from the Las Vegas area of Nevada. Queho has been credited with the deaths of 23 people in the early 20th century. He was declared Nevada’s “Public Enemy No. 1,” and the state’s first mass murderer. But was he really?First, we dive into the setting (05:55), the killers early life (16:37) and the timeline (20:16). Then, we get into "Where are they now?" (30:36) followed by our take...
2022-06-0250 min
ELB PodcastELB Podcast Episode 3:8: Wendy Weiser: Assessing the State of American Elections and DemocracyWhy has it gotten harder rather than easier to vote in the United States over the past decade?
What can be done about the risk of stolen elections in the United States?
How have the Supreme Court’s decisions on redistricting, voting rights, and gerrymandering affected the quality of American democracy?
On season 3, Episode 8 of the ELB podcast, we speak with Wendy Weiser, Vice President for the Democracy Program at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law School.
[This is the final episode of Season 3 of the podcast.]
2022-04-2733 min
Politics and Polls#245: The Continued Fight for Voting Rights (Wendy Weiser)How are Congress and the courts exercising their powers on the issue of voting rights? Julian Zelizer and Sam Wang are joined by Wendy Weiser, vice president for democracy at the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University, for a conversation about voting rights from the Texas State legislature to the U.S. Supreme Court. Weiser has appeared on CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, PBS, and has written for The New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, and others. Before joining the Brennan Center, Weiser was a senior attorney at NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund and a...
2021-08-1935 min
The Obelisk / Nox MenteThe Obelisk | An Evening with Christopher KnowlesChristopher Knowles is the author of the newly-published novel, He Will Live Up in the Sky. He is also the author of The Secret History of Rock 'n' Roll: The Mysterious Roots of Modern Music (Viva Editions). He is also the author of the Eagle Award-winning Our Gods Wear Spandex: The Secret History of Comic Book Heroes (RedWheel Weiser) and the critically-acclaimed Clash City Showdown: The Music, The Meaning and The Legacy of The Clash (PageFree Publications). He's co-author of The Complete X-Files: Behind the Series, the Myths, and the Movies (Insight Editions), the authorized companion to the long-running...
2021-07-082h 01
Velshi“Help has arrived”Ali Velshi breaks down the historic American Rescue Plan, Republicans’ brazen new attacks on voting rights, the investigation that seems to be zeroing in on Donald Trump, and more. He’s joined by Congresswoman Barbara Lee (D-CA), NIH Director Francis Collins, Austin Mayor Steve Adler, the New Yorker’s Sheela Kolhatkar, the Brennan Center’s Wendy Weiser, the New York Times’ Katie Benner, Brittney Cooper, Brittany Packnett Cunningham, George Floyd family attorney L. Chris Stewart, and Joyce Vance.
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2021-03-131h 20
Political BreakdownA School Reopening Update and Wendy Weiser on Voting Rights DebateThe state legislature approves a $6.6 billion plan to incentivize a return to in-person instruction, but will it move the needle on reopenings? Marisa and Scott discuss the plan with KQED's Katie Orr and Guy Marzorati. Then, Wendy Weiser, Vice President for Democracy at the Brennan Center for Justice, joins to discuss the voting restrictions moving through state legislatures around the country, as well as potential changes to voting rights from Congress and the Supreme Court. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2021-03-0531 min
Next Question with Katie CouricTURNOUT Episode 10: ‘If we raise our expectations we would have a better system’This series began in the past, to better understand the origin and history of our ongoing fight for voting rights. And as Turnout comes to a close, we consider its future. Where do we go from here? What lessons can we take with us, and what impact might this election have on our ongoing push for a more inclusive democracy and a more perfect union. In this last episode of Turnout with Katie Couric, we hear from some of our previous guests — including Wendy Weiser, Gilda Daniels, and Tyler Okeke — about the biggest takeaways from the 2020 election and their impa...
2020-12-0836 min
Abortion: The Body Politic with Katie CouricTurnout Episode 10: ‘If we raise our expectations we would have a better system’This series began in the past, to better understand the origin and history of our ongoing fight for voting rights. And as Turnout comes to a close, we consider its future. Where do we go from here? What lessons can we take with us, and what impact might this election have on our ongoing push for a more inclusive democracy and a more perfect union. In this last episode of Turnout with Katie Couric, we hear from some of our previous guests — including Wendy Weiser, Gilda Daniels, and Tyler Okeke — about the biggest takeaways from the 2020 election and their impa...
2020-12-0828 minNext Question with Katie CouricTURNOUT Episode 1: ‘Democracy is a group sport’The right to vote can sometimes be described as a “struggle,” a “fight,” even a “war.”But how did this come to be and who has been fighting to make every generation’s path to the ballot a little less arduous? On this episode of Turnout, Katie Couric goes back to the beginning, to find out what our founding can tell us about the continuing war on voting rights. Katie speaks with historian and biographer Jon Meacham about the framers’ hopes and dreams and who was left out of the more perfect union they designed. Then, Wendy Weiser, of the B...
2020-10-0134 min
Abortion: The Body Politic with Katie CouricTurnout Episode 1: ‘Democracy is a group sport’The right to vote can sometimes be described as a “struggle,” a “fight,” even a “war.”But how did this come to be and who has been fighting to make every generation’s path to the ballot a little less arduous? On this episode of Turnout, Katie Couric goes back to the beginning, to find out what our founding can tell us about the continuing war on voting rights. Katie speaks with historian and biographer Jon Meacham about the framers’ hopes and dreams and who was left out of the more perfect union they designed. Then, Wendy Weiser, of the B...
2020-10-0126 min
The Briefing with Michael WaldmanThe 2020 Census: What's at StakeEvery ten years, the federal government conducts the census of all people in the United States. The stakes are extraordinarily high, particularly in light of the push to include questions about citizenship. The tally determines everything from the allocation of congressional seats and the shape of legislative districts, to the flow of vast amounts of government funds. Political pressure is especially high this time, as demographic change transforms the country. In all, it's a potential crisis looming ahead – with huge ramifications for civil rights and government policy for years to come. How could budgetary constraints, new an...
2018-05-141h 05
Life of the LawThe Battle Over Your Right to VoteThe polls got it wrong. What matters in the end, on election day, is who has the right to vote and who goes to the polls to cast their ballot. Due to strict voter ID laws, not all Americans are allowed to vote on election day. In fact, some 21 million are prevented from voting simply because they don't have the required ID or paperwork when they go to the polls. The Government Accounting Office reports that can shift the election outcome in some states by 2-3 percentage points.
In our most recent episode GOVERNMENT GHOST reporter Megan Marrelli told the...
2017-11-2844 min
The Leslie Marshall ShowMichele Jawando on a new 6th Circuit appointee and concerns over voter fraud commissionMichele Jawando is in for Leslie today, live from the Center for American Progress in Washington, D.C.For her first segment, she's joined by Billy Corriher, Deputy Director of Legal Progress at the CAP, Michael Zubrensky, Chief Counsel at the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, and Eric Lesh, Fair Courts Project Director at Lamda Legal.They breakdown their concerns over the controversial appointment of John K. Bush, a staunch conservative, to the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals. In the the second half of the show, Michele switches gears to the latest...
2017-07-1338 min
Down at the CrossroadsDatC #075 - Tales of the Fantastic Judika Illes Hello and thank you once again for joining us down at the crossroads for some music, magick, and Paganism. Where witches gather for the sabbath, offerings are made, pacts are signed for musical fame and we cross paths with today’s most influential Pagans, occultists, and deep thinkers. I am your bewitching, bald headed, host Chris Orapello and tonight Tara and I meet with beloved author and witch Judika Illes to speak about The Weiser Book of the Fantastic and Forgotten: Tales of the Supernatural, Strange, and Bizarre, her Big Book of Practical Spells, as well as folklore, dealing wi...
2017-01-132h 23Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courtsIntimidation NationIn the wake of the Supreme Court’s 2013 decision in Shelby County v Holder, many states made changes to their voting laws that may disproportionately harm minorities. This week, lawyers in Ohio filed an emergency motion with the Supreme Court requesting a suspension of voting restrictions in their state. One of those lawyers, Subodh Chandra, joins us to explain why. We also speak with Wendy Weiser, director of the Democracy Program at the Brennan Center for Justice, about the potential impact of Donald Trump’s recent warnings about vote-rigging. She explains why long-term neglect of our voting infr...
2016-10-2943 minAmicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courtsIntimidation NationIn the wake of the Supreme Court’s 2013 decision in Shelby County v Holder, many states made changes to their voting laws that may disproportionately harm minorities. This week, lawyers in Ohio filed an emergency motion with the Supreme Court requesting a suspension of voting restrictions in their state. One of those lawyers, Subodh Chandra, joins us to explain why. We also speak with Wendy Weiser, director of the Democracy Program at the Brennan Center for Justice, about the potential impact of Donald Trump’s recent warnings about vote-rigging. She explains why long-term neglect of our voting infr...
2016-10-2940 min
We the PeopleVoting rights in the courtsHans von Spakovsky of the Heritage Foundation and Wendy Weiser of the Brennan Center for Justice explore recent court rulings about the right to vote in America.Get the latest constitutional news, and continue the conversation, on Facebook and Twitter.We want to know what you think of the podcast! Email us at editor@constitutioncenter.org.Please subscribe to We the People and our companion podcast, Live at America’s Town Hall, on iTunes, Stitcher, or your favorite podcast app.We the People is a member of Slate’s Panoply network. Check out the f...
2016-08-1157 min
cmdX anDre Articles "Law of WE "podcastVoting rights in the courtsHans von Spakovsky of the Heritage Foundation and Wendy Weiser of the Brennan Center for Justice explore recent court rulings about the right to vote in America. Get the latest constitutional news, and continue the conversation, on Facebook and Twitter. We want to know what you think of the podcast! Email us at editor@constitutioncenter.org. Please subscribe to We the People and our companion podcast, Live at America’s Town Hall, on iTunes, Stitcher, or your favorite podcast app. We the People is a member of Slate’s Panoply network. Check out the full roster at Panoply.fm. Despite our congressiona...
2016-08-1157 min
We the PeopleVoting rights in the courtsHans von Spakovsky of the Heritage Foundation and Wendy Weiser of the Brennan Center for Justice explore recent court rulings about the right to vote in America.Get the latest constitutional news, and continue the conversation, on Facebook and Twitter.We want to know what you think of the podcast! Email us at editor@constitutioncenter.org.Please subscribe to We the People and our companion podcast, Live at America’s Town Hall, on iTunes, Stitcher, or your favorite podcast app.We the People is a member of Slate’s Panoply network. Check out the f...
2016-08-1157 min
Open Society Foundations PodcastChanging Constitutional Law in the Post-Scalia Era: Lessons from the Past for the FutureAward-winning constitutional scholar David Cole discusses his new book, Engines of Liberty, which explores how citizen activists have successfully shaped constitutional law. Speakers: David Cole, Jeffrey Toobin, Wendy Weiser. (Recorded: Apr 26, 2016)
2016-05-241h 17
CUNY TV's Bob Herbert's Op-Ed.TVWendy R. Weiser on voter suppressionBob Herbert's Op-Ed.TV welcomes Wendy R. Weiser, director of the Democracy Program at the Brennan Center for Justice, NYU, to discuss the facts and figures on some of the voting laws that have been put into effect over the last few years.
2014-08-1126 min
KEXP Presents Mind Over Matters Sustainability SegmentSustainability Segment: Wendy WeiserGuest Wendy Weiser, Director, Democracy Program, Brennan Center for Justice, New York University School of Law, speaks with Diane Horn about the State of Voting in 2014 report, co-authored with Erik Opsal.
2014-07-2125 min
Lawyer 2 LawyerThe Impact of Voter ID Laws and Voter PurgesBefore 2006, not a single US state required voters to show identification before marking a ballot. But now, 30 states have enacted some sort of voter identification law. Are these laws necessary to prevent voter fraud or are laws being passed to discourage low income groups, the elderly and minorities from voting? Lawyer2Lawyer co-host and attorney, Craig Williams, joins Professor Richard L. Hasen, from the University of California, Irvine and Wendy Weiser, Director of the Democracy Program at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, to talk voter ID laws in battleground states, voter purges and the potential...
2012-08-0838 minKEXP Presents Mind Over Matters Sustainability SegmentSustainability Segment: Wendy WeiserGuest Wendy Weiser, Director, Democracy Program, Brennan Center for Justice, New York University School of Law, speaks with Diane Horn about our current voting system and election reform.
2011-08-0127 min