Posted on 08/22/2020 6:16:36 PM PDT by simpson96
On Friday, Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee (R) signed a controversial bill that enhances penalties for certain crimes related to political protests and makes it a felony to illegally camp on state property. In Tennessee, a felony conviction automatically revokes an individual’s right to vote.
The law also increases penalties for assaulting a first responder, obstructing emergency vehicles, and rioting.
The bill follows two months of anti-racism protests in Nashville, during which activists have camped outside the state capitol building in an effort to secure a meeting with Lee. According to the Associated Press, state legislators claimed the law was needed after some protesters set fire to a courthouse in May. But civil libertarians were quick to criticize the measure as detrimental to free speech and criminal justice reform in a state that already uses felon disenfranchisement laws to bar large numbers of Black residents from voting.
Tennessee is one of many states that makes it virtually impossible for former felons to regain their voting rights. Just over 420,000 Tennessee residents have been disenfranchised because of a past felony conviction. Since 1990, fewer than 12,000 of them have succeeded in regaining their voting rights, thanks to an onerous process that applies even to people who have completed sentences for low-level felonies. As a result, more than 20 percent of Black Tennesseans are unable to vote.
“We are very disappointed in Governor Lee’s decision to sign this bill, which chills free speech, undermines criminal justice reform and fails to address the very issues of racial justice and police violence raised by the protesters who are being targeted,” ACLU of Tennessee Executive Director Hedy Weinberg said
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The author.
Ah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Damn my eyes!!!!
Aren’t ANY of them attractive??
And they should take away the right to live along with the right to vote
No, they are not.I think they become these commie activist partly because they are homely and are not popular.ever.
Yeah, losing one’s right to vote for committing a felony- as has been the case since our Founding, and before... Shocking!
If they were attractive, they’d be happy
If they were happy, they wouldn’t be Liberals
Lol, so very true.
When I worked in Manhattan I knew a bunches hard left girls..they went to burning man etc..
They would get used by guys so badly it was incredible.
One slept with a guy with herpes even though she knew about it beforehand
they Are attractive, a number of them, in their 20s....
then something happens.
Shillary was attractive going INTO college
by the end, yeesh!!
Rush accurately defines “feminism” as “created to let ugly women participate in society.”
And leftism takes pretty girls and makes them ugly. Quickly.
OH MY GOD I JUST SAID THE SAME THING...ABOUT MAKING THEM UGLY!!
Great minds and all :)
“Protester”
I don’t think that word means what the author thinks it means.
DAWGs
Observing truisms ;)
My heart is just breaking./s
Misleading headline.
Just over 420,000 Tennessee residents have been disenfranchised victimized because of a past felony conviction felons
oh, and the author should feel the full force of victimhood.
The only issue I have with the law is that penalties for assaulting first responders should not be greater than if done against the average Joe. Mayor Lightfoot is using her special status as the reason her neighborhood deserves protection while all the others do not. They work for us. My life and health are just as important as the cop who lives next door.
Mother Jones.
Partisan Media Shills update.
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