Category Archives: felon voting
“The First Amendment, Equal Protection, and Felon Disfranchisement: A New Viewpoint”
Janai Nelson has posted this draft on SSRN. Here is the abstract:
This Article engages the equality principles of the First Amendment and the Equal Protection Clause to reconsider the constitutionality of one of the last and most entrenched barriers… Continue reading
“New York Law Ending Prison-Based Gerrymandering Stands: Plaintiffs Drop Challenge”
Prisoners of the Census: “New Yorkers enjoyed a clear victory today, as plaintiffs in the Little v. LATFOR case dropped their challenge of the state law ending prison-based gerrymandering. The law, known as Part XX, was passed in… Continue reading
“California Felon Voting Case Asks: When is Being in Jail Not “Imprisoned”?”
A ChapinBlog.
“Voting and Vice: Criminal Disenfranchisement and the Reconstruction Amendments”
Richard Re and Christopher Re have posted this draft on SSRN (forthcoming, Yale Law Journal). Here is the abstract:
The Reconstruction Amendments are justly celebrated for transforming millions of recent slaves into voting citizens. Yet this legacy of egalitarian enfranchisement… Continue reading
“Race and Partisanship in Criminal Disfranchisement Laws: Antecedents of the 2000 Election Controversy in Florida”
Pippa Holloway has posted this draft on SSRN (chapter in FREEDOM RIGHTS: NEW PERSPECTIVES ON THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT, p. 277, D. McGuire and J. Dittmer, eds., University Press of Kentucky, 2011). Here is the abstract:
This essay considers court… Continue reading
Felon Voting Possibly at Issue in Dewine Flip from Romney to Santorum
Interesting. There aren’t too many issues where Romney can run to the right of Santorum.
“Documentary Disenfranchisement”
Jessie Allen has posted this draft on SSRN (Tulane Law Review).
In the generally accepted picture of criminal disenfranchisement in the United States today, permanent voting bans are rare. Laws on the books in most states now provide that people… Continue reading
“Congress must pass law that allows former prisoners to vote”
H. David Schuringa has written this oped for the CS Monitor.
“Counting Voters Fairly”
NYT editorial: “A Federal District Court late last month wisely upheld a 2010 Maryland law that counts prison inmates as residents in their home communities for purposes of redistricting, rather than at the prisons where they are incarcerated.”
“Santorum defends support for restoring felons’ voting rights”
The Washington Times reports. Yesterday’s debate got into Gov. Romney’s position on Massachusetts felon laws, the topic of an excellent student paper I recently read.
Mother Jones offers Rick Santorum: Voting Rights Activist, which include a link to… Continue reading