Former Attornery General Eric Holder spoke with us to discuss his concerns over the Jan. 6 hearings, the overturn of Roe v. Wade and the issue of America’s epidemic of gun violence and mass shootings.
Former Attorney General Eric Holder says evidence presented at the congressional hearings into the January 6 attacks on the U.S. Capitol shows congressional investigators are “extremely close” to making an “indictable case” against former President Donald Trump.
“That was not a new finding. It wasn’t some new found law, some new found facts. That was simply a change in court personnel and that’s not the way in which our system works,” said Holder. “The American people are united around some common sense things that would make those kinds of shootings far less likely to happen,” said Holder. “Universal background checks, waiting periods, the banning of assault weapons, there's majority support for all of those things and yet our political system does not have the capacity it seems to get out of the pockets of the gun lobby and do what the people want to do.”Our Unfinished March: the violent past and imperiled future of the vote.
Exactly how much property you needed to own varied from colony to colony. In New Hampshire, they measured property based on its value in cash: If you weren’t worth 50 pounds, you were out of luck. In Virginia, whether you could vote came down to how much land you owned: If you had 100 acres, you were good. If you only had 25, they needed to be well manicured. And if you had any fewer, you’d better not show up on Election Day, lest you be told you were too broke to vote.
But Dorr didn’t want to be the kind of aristocrat who, as one nearby newspaper satirized, “gets up leisurely, breakfasts comfortably, reads the papers regularly, dresses fashionably, lounges fastidiously, eats a tart gravely, talks insipidly, dines considerably, drinks superfluously, kills time indifferently, sups elegantly, goes to bed stupidly, and lives uselessly.”
In the months that followed, the Suffrage Association barnstormed from town to town, making the case for change, and ultimately deciding to bring the People’s Constitution up for a statewide vote. At the time, it was unclear whether this referendum would have any standing, but at the very least they thought it would send a loud message. And it did: On Election Day, in April 1842, 14,000 Rhode Islanders voted for the People’s Constitution, while just 52 voted against it.
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