Senate readies vote on anti-voter ID Biden judicial nominee after contentious confirmation hearing

Myrna Pérez has a career as an activist against state voter ID laws and was previously denied a post on the Election Assistance Commission.

Pérez is the director of the voting rights and elections program for the left-leaning Brennan Center's Voting Rights and Elections Program at the New York University School of Law. Earlier this year, she wrote articles characterizing election reform proposals from Republican-controlled state legislatures in Georgia, Texas and other states as voter suppression. In mid-2020, she wrote that some states were "gutting" the 1965 Voting Rights Act.  Pérez also wrote a piece for the magazine Sojourners with the headline, "The GOP Campaign to Make Elections Less Free." During a contentious July 14 confirmation hearing, she said the editors of the magazine chose the headline. The article itself says, "The barrage of suppressive bills has been different from previous years in various ways. The sheer number of bills, the sweeping nature of the proposals, the procedural shenanigans, and the brazenness of lawmakers’ intent makes this like few legislative attempts in memory."