Posted on 07/22/2016 3:26:13 PM PDT by COBOL2Java
WASHINGTON — The Virginia Supreme Court has struck down executive orders issued by Gov. Terry McAuliffe that would have allowed more than 200,000 felons to register to vote and participate in the November presidential election.
The decision, issued late Friday, requires registrars to strike the names of any felons who registered to vote under the umbrella of three executive orders McAuliffe signed this year. The order gives county and state officials a month to strike those names.
Chief Justice Donald Lemons wrote the decision. Three justices issued dissenting opinions.
In April, McAuliffe restored the civil rights of felons who had completed their sentence and paid their fines. The rights restored included the right to vote, the right to serve on a jury and to serve as a notary. Gun rights are restored through a separate process, which is handled by the courts.
Virginia law grants the governor the power to grant pardons and past administrations have restored the rights of felons on a case-by-case basis. Former Gov. Bob McDonnell and McAuliffe have each tried to accelerate the pace of restorations and to streamline the paperwork intensive and sometimes arbitrary process.
(Excerpt) Read more at wtop.com ...
I am sure he will try to take it to the SCOTUS
Is this an example of felonphobia?
Get in your safe zones because I am going to say something that one might not want to hear.........HAHAHAH I LOVE It when a liberal loses!!!!
Hillary voters.
NO he didn't. Absolutely no authority to do what he did.
McAuliffe is a favorite Clinton sock puppet suck-up and toilet brush.
Typical WTOP spin on things. The difference is that McDonnell restored rights individually on a case by case basis in keeping with the state constitution and there wasn't a legal challenge. McAuliffe hoped to get away with en masse restorations to try and help #crookedhillary in Virginia. Thank you, Rob Bell and others for taking this on! State Senator Rob Bell is running for Attorney General in 2017.
Rightfully nicknamed "The Punk"
I can already hear the Obama Justice Department screaming about disenfranchisement of voters.
AaaaaaaMen ....AaaaaMen ....... Amen ... Amen
Well there goes 200,000 Felons that will not be voting for the broom riding witch.
Nice to read some good news....
“This is a dark story. Very dark.”
How about we REFRAIN from talking about race. After all, a (relative) handful of felons are light-skinned.
GREAT NEWS !
This is what he has said he will do:
“Lets assume hypothetically that the state Supreme Court knocks it down,” said McAuliffe. “The next day I will sit at my desk—probably with the assistance of my autopen—and I will sign 206,000 orders.”
“They will have their rights back that day,” he said. “This is much ado about nothing.”
McAuliffe: Supreme Court Can’t Stop Restoration of Felon’s Voting Rights
http://freebeacon.com/politics/mcauliffe-supreme-court-cant-stop-restoration-of-felons-voting-rights/
McAuliffe sure had a lot of friends to pay off for trying to vote Democratic. Hopefully he will be joining them in jail for a long, long time.
He makes a pile of steaming dogcrap seem like a pile of gold.
It still will be in play! :-)
Yep, he's my governor [retch]
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