Bill Hal­tom is a lawyer, edi­tor, award-win­ning news­pa­per colum­nist for the Ten­nessee USA Today Net­work, and the author of nine books includ­ing Why Can’t Moth­er Vote? Joseph Hanover and the Unfin­ished Busi­ness of Democ­ra­cy and The Oth­er Fel­low May Be Right: The Civil­i­ty of Howard Bak­er.