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gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 2 years ago

Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals Upholds Mississippi’s Jim Crow-Era Lifetime Voting Ban

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Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals Upholds Mississippi’s Jim Crow-Era Lifetime Voting Ban

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gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 2 years ago
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Court Upholds Mississippi’s Jim Crow-Era Lifetime Voting Ban
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“Imagine if just half of those folks could vote,” says a Mississippi advocate who hoped to defeat his state’s practice of permanent felony disenfranchisement.

Archived at https://ghostarchive.org/archive/evyoU

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    Is it a fucked up case judgement? Must be the Fifth.

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    commented this before and comment the same thing again

    if the people that the Democrats and Republicans keep from voting had their rights magically restored don’t think either party would win any more elections since this is a nationwide issue but voting is not always restricted using the same legal language

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      Sorry, who are the Democrats keeping from voting?

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        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comprehensive_Crime_Control_Act_of_1984

        The 1994 Crime Bill marked a shift in the politics of crime and policing in the United States. Sociologist and criminologist William R. Kelly states that, “While the longer-term impact of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 was questionable, the political impact was clear—crime control or ‘tough on crime’ became a bipartisan issue.”[36]

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violent_Crime_Control_and_Law_Enforcement_Act

        a lot of people including helping keep the citizens of Mississippi from voting

        supported by both Democrats and Republicans

        and Trump donated to both parties at the times these acts were passed

        shit stinks no matter what color you spray paint it

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          S.1762 - Comprehensive Crime Control Act of 1984

          Sponsor: Sen. Thurmond, Strom [R-SC]

          https://www.congress.gov/bill/98th-congress/senate-bill/1762/all-actions

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      Which Republican voters are being kept from voting?

      Registered Republicans are the most likely to be caught trying to vote 2 or more times.

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      False equivalency.

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      Yes, all of those Republicans being kept from voting. Like all those poor Republican people of color who are big Trump supporters.

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      What

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      The more people vote, the bigger the Democrat’s share of the vote.

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