Posted on 01/05/2010 5:54:34 PM PST by Robwin
OLYMPIA, Wash. -- A federal appeals court has ruled that imprisoned felons should be allowed to vote in Washington state to ensure that racial minorities are protected under the Voting Rights Act.
Tuesday's 2-1 ruling by a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned the 2000 ruling of a district judge in Spokane. That judge had ruled that state law did not violate the act, and dismissed a lawsuit filed by a former prison inmate from Bellevue.
The two appellate judges ruled that disparities in the state's justice system "cannot be explained in race-neutral ways."
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I don’t have a problem with former felons voting (I are one) but incarcerated felons should not be voting at all. I had to do my time and rebuild, so should they.
Which two judges? Rheinhart (Ramona Ripston of the Los Angeles chapter of the ACLU’s husband)?
I’m shocked. Not. Time for another SCOTUS bitchslap.
If you liked that one, yer gonna love this
...and the inmates are running the asylum
B!tchslap time will come to an end if O gets to nominate a new one to the SCOTUS.
Then the entire nation is b!tchslapped BIGTIME.
Ten years after the original ruling... I would almost expect the overturning to be just based on that one issue.
LLS
Umm...committing a felony trumps Voting Rights Act. Voting Rights Act does not trump state law.
The govenor of Washington State is a leftist coward and jerk.
PERIOD.
I cannot believe they actually decided this way bump! Wonder what they’ll do when they discover that pedophiles are under represented in kindergarten classes? :-(
arrrrgh!!!
I live in this freakin’ stupid state. With freakin’ stupid idiots calling the shots.
For anyone interested, here’s a link to the case ruling, including Judge Tashima’s majority opinion and McKeown’s dissenting opinion:
http://www.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2010/01/05/06-35669.pdf
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....and I thought the judges in Massachusetts were nuts!
Good ol’ 9th Circus - the most reversed federal appellate court in history. What a bunch of lib-driven lunatic morons.
“There has to be a limit, right?”
A sad lesson of human events seems to be that the limit is well down the road after the collapse of social mores, catastrophes and massive depopulation.
Too soon to set your hair on fire over this. It'll probably be Ruth Buzzy Ginsburg, doyenne of the ACLU (All Criminals Love Us), who'll retire. Obumbler would have to nominate his terrorist friend Ayers to get to the left of Ol' Buzzy. Oh, wait. . . .
Never wonder again why this is very often called “The 9th Circus Court.”
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