Completed: 1/21/2023
Recommendation: Not Recommended (unless you are unfamiliar with the Jim Crow era)
Recommended By: Nobody
Review:
This is a long-form legal brief. Arguments are repeated ad nauseum. If one is unfamiliar with the history of voter suppression, particularly in the Jim Crow era, this book has a lot of information. If one is familiar with it, well, this book has a lot of the information you already know. I truly do not think that this book identifies a "crisis." It may, but the argument was not clear. I think it strongly builds the argument that America was build on voter suppression and it is on-going. I do not think it builds a case that there is a particular crisis right now. Maybe the "wrongness" of voter suppression might have been more accurate or "contrary to Chief Justice Roberts' assertion, voter suppression continues." There really isn't anything new here, there is no real plan to address voter suppression (except to encourage people to come up with creative ideas). I cannot recommend this book (unless you are wholly unfamiliar with the Jim Crow era).
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