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Progressives Aim to Expand Rights Through States
Episode 46

Progressives Aim to Expand Rights Through States

After Dobbs and other Supreme Court decisions that restrict certain rights at the federal level, are there strategies for progressives to codify those rights at the state level?

Brian Lehrer: A Daily Politics Podcast

June 4, 202422m 37s

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Show Notes

After Dobbs and other Supreme Court decisions that restrict certain rights at the federal level, are there strategies for progressives to codify those rights at the state level?

On Today's Show:
Eyal Press, contributing writer at The New Yorker and the author of Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America (Macmillan, 2021), talks about renewed efforts to focus on the rights found in individual state constitutions.

Topics

freedomroe_v_wadepoliticsstate_courtsgaysupreme_courtlibertyconstitutiondobbsprogressivebill_of_rightsammendmentrightsracial_equalityabortion