So far this year at least 17 US states have enacted 28 new laws aimed at voter suppression and election subversion, and nearly 400 further bills are proposed. In a recent address President Biden described this push to restrict voting rights as the greatest threat that American democracy has faced since the Civil War. So what’s behind this attack on voting rights and can anything be done to stop it? Guest: Richard L. Hasen, professor of law and political science at the University of California–Irvine School of Law and the author of Election Meltdown: Dirty Tricks, Distrust, and the Threat to American Democracy.