Free Republic 2nd Qtr 2024 Fundraising Target: $81,000 Receipts & Pledges to-date: $25,807
31%  
Woo hoo!! And we're now over 31%!! Thank you all very much!! God bless.

Keyword: felonrighttovote

Brevity: Headers | « Text »
  • Holder wants felons to vote

    02/11/2014 11:41:17 AM PST · by servo1969 · 52 replies
    Legal Insurrection ^ | 2-11-2014 | William A. Jacobson
    I wonder who he thinks they will vote for? Let me think about that a while, ahem, tough call. Eric Holder wants millions of convicted felons to vote, urging states to change existing laws. Holder Urges States to Repeal Bans on Felons’ Voting: Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. on Tuesday urged states to repeal laws that prohibit felons from voting, a move that would restore the right to vote to millions of people. The call was mostly symbolic — Mr. Holder has no authority to enact these changes himself — but it marked the attorney general’s latest effort to...
  • Holder: Restore felons' voting rights

    02/11/2014 8:11:08 AM PST · by Second Amendment First · 26 replies
    Politico ^ | 2/11/14 | JOSH GERSTEIN
    People convicted of felonies should not forever lose their right to vote, according to Attorney General Eric Holder. In remarks prepared for delivery at a criminal justice conference Tuesday, Holder takes aim at state laws which strip voting rights from those convicted of serious crimes. "It is time to fundamentally rethink laws that permanently disenfranchise people who are no longer under federal or state supervision," Holder is to tell the Leadership Council on Civil and Human Rights Criminal Justice Forum at Georgetown law school. "These restrictions are not only unnecessary and unjust, they are also counterproductive. By perpetuating the stigma...