[bumping to the top–see some of you in Chicago tomorrow!]

I’m looking forward to participating in this event at the University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics on May 14 (the event’s video will be posted on the Institute’s website soon after the event).  Here is a description:

Is President Obama correct when he says, “the right to vote is threatened today in a way that it has not been since the Voting Rights Act became law nearly five decades ago”? The Institute of Politics welcomes a panel of leading experts, analysts, and advocates to look at these key questions: How have voting rights evolved over the past 50 years? What is the impact of last year’s Supreme Court ruling regarding the Voting Rights Act of 1965? And what is the status of the current bipartisan legislation in Congress?

Panelists include Myrna Perez, Deputy Director at The Brennan Center, Roger Clegg, President and General Counsel at The Center for Equality, Richard Hasen, Professor of Law and Political Science at the University of California-Irvine, and Tanya Clay House, Public Policy Director at the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. The discussion will be moderated by The New Yorker’s Jeffrey Toobin.