[onona]

Legislature ? We don't need no stinking legislature.

[butlerweave]

Is he saying all African-Americans are Criminals ?

[Vigilanteman]

The left won’t be satisfied until even incarcerated jailbirds are allowed to vote as they are in Vermont. I’ve heard that also includes Maine now.

[WriteOn]

Felons aren’t known to vote much

[Red_Devil 232]

Seems to me that the Civil War-era provision was and is reasonable!

[ScottinVA]

Terry the Clinton bagman strikes again.

ESAD, McAuliffe.

[for-q-clinton]

200,000 more democrat voters.

[Secret Agent Man]

Kind of racist to say this was “aimed” at blacks. No one makes felons commit their crimes.

Only a liberal looks at crime stats and says that because blacks commit more crimes, the laws are set up to convict blacks.

Its like blaming society for rapists because we have laws against rape that target the activites rapists do at a much higher rate than everyone else.

[kiryandil]

Wonder if McAwful will restore their Second Amendment rights, too?

LOL! When Hillarys fly...

[Snickering Hound]

They will have to have served their time and completed parole as well.

A small set of the felon population, but it’s a start.

[montag813]

Executive orders cannot override a constitution. Ridiculous. But of course all he needs is a single Obama appointee to win the state for Hillary.

[Gay State Conservative]

L’état, c’est moi !

[Pollster1]

I miss the rule of law.

Thomas Jefferson once talked about watering the Tree of Liberty. I wonder what he would say about a tyrant who overrode his state’s laws without authorization from the legislative body responsible for writing the laws.

[sphinx]

The action, which Mr. McAuliffe said was justified under an expansive legal interpretation of his executive clemency authority, goes far beyond what other governors have done, experts say, and will almost certainly provoke a backlash from Virginia Republicans, who have resisted measures to expand felons’ voting rights. It was planned in secrecy, and came amid an intensifying national debate over race, voting and the criminal justice system.

So "executive clemency" gives the governor power to suspend the state constitution?

I know nothing about the use of gubernatorial clemency in Virginia. Is there precedent for this?

[armydawg505]

Impeach. Or just announce that every bill he sends, every request he sends, anything he sends to the legislature is dead on arrival.

[TwelveOfTwenty]

Will Hillary and Bernie be asked to disavow the felons’ support, as Trump was asked if he would disavow the KKK’s endorsement?