Two legal issues that could impact voting in New York state emerged over the last week.

The first was a case heard by the Supreme Court which could geld the last vestiges of the Voting Rights Act.

The second was a case decided unanimously by New York’s highest court, the Court of Appeals, which upheld the state’s new law to hold most local elections in even-numbered years. 

Jerry Goldfeder, an adjunct professor of law at Fordham, senior counsel at Cozen O’Connor and author of “Goldfeder’s Modern Election Law,” spoke with Capital Tonight’s Susan Arbetter about both cases.

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