Gregory Markel and Sarah Fedner Co-Moderate NYCLA's “Fighting for Democracy: Why Voting Rights Need To Be Protected Now”

Gregory Markel and Sarah Fedner in Seyfarth’s Litigation Department and members of the firm’s Securities & Fiduciary Duty Litigation Practice Group, will co-moderate for the New York County Lawyers Association’s “Fighting for Democracy: Why Voting Rights Need To Be Protected Now ” Webinar on Monday, March 14, 2022 at 5:30 p.m. EST. Gregory serves as the NYCLA’s program chair.

Attendees will hear from the country’s leading experts on voting rights at NYU School of Law, Cardozo School of Law, the Brennan Center, and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund as they discuss the most pressing threats to voting rights in our country today. The issues include:

• threats of physical violence against voting administrators,
• state election subversion bills,
• the retreat of the judiciary in protecting voting rights,
• the purges of local election administration boards,
• the use of criminal law to dissuade voter participation and administration,
• the reform of the electoral college, gerrymandering and more.

For more information and to register, click here.