LAW AND DISORDER AUGUST 17, 2026
Co-hosts Heidi Boghosian and Stephen Rohde examine the basics in what ordinary people can do about our declining democracy. Our guest, Skye Perryman, offers a roadmap for fighting back and restoring people power. She’s the author of Ordinary People, Extraordinary Times: A Guide for All of Us—How to Reclaim Your Power, Fight for Freedom, and Reimagine Democracy and President and CEO of Democracy Forward, a national legal organization advancing democracy and progress in the courts.
Next, we take a close look at how the Trump administration and the Supreme Court ’s reshaping and restricting voting rights. Our guest is Rick Hasen, he's an internationally recognized expert in election law and professor at UCLA School of Law. He joins us to explain what these developments mean for voting rights and the future of elections in the United States.