“Shameful! Virginians who have paid their debt to society deserve to have their voices heard at the ballot box,” tweeted former Gov. Terry McAuliffe, who tangled with the GOP-controlled legislature over the issue when he was in office. “We wont stop fighting until we fully reverse this Jim Crow era law and make restoration of voting rights automatic.” [More]
Translation: The Party of Criminals needs all its constituents if it wants the House and Governorship back.
Curious thing about what they were considering:
A person who has been convicted of a felony shall not be entitled to vote during any period of incarceration for such felony conviction, but upon release from incarceration for that felony conviction and without further action required of him such person shall be invested with all political rights, including the right to vote.
Think Jorge's pals would throw such a fit if "all" included RKBA?
[Via Mack H]
What did Supreme Court Justice Taney say about citizenship in the Dred Scott decision?
ReplyDelete"For if they were so received, and entitled to the privileges and immunities of citizens, it would exempt them from the operation of the special laws and from the police regulations which they considered to be necessary for their own safety. It would give to persons of the negro race, who were recognized as citizens in any one State of the Union, the right to enter every other State whenever they pleased, singly or in companies, without pass or passport, and without obstruction, to sojourn there as long as they pleased, to go where they pleased at every hour of the day or night without molestation, unless they committed some violation of law for which a white man would be punished; and it would give them the full liberty of speech in public and in private upon all subjects upon which its own citizens might speak; to hold public meetings upon political affairs, and to keep and carry arms wherever they went. And all of this would be done in the face of the subject race of the same color, both free and slaves, and inevitably producing discontent and insubordination among them, and endangering the peace and safety of the State."
It would appear that Judge Taney thought that all citizens have the right to keep and bear arms. What happened to that right, why is regulated/infringed by the states and the federal government and why is it not restored?
It would seem some rights are more important than other rights.
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