Supreme Court Sets Conference Date for Case on Felon Voting and Voting Rights Act

On April 23, the U.S. Supreme Court will consider whether to review Simmons v Galvin, 09-920. This is the case from Massachusetts over whether the federal Voting Rights Act has any relevance to state laws that bar ex-felons or felons from registering to vote. In the First Circuit, the 3-judge panel had voted 2-1 that Congress never intended the Voting Rights Act to have any relevance to that issue.

However, on January 5, 2010, the 9th circuit ruled 2-1 that the Voting Rights Act does apply to that issue. That case is Farrakhan v Gregoire. Because there is now a split in the circuits on the issue, it is considered somewhat likely that the U.S. Supreme Court will hear Simmons v Galvin.


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  1. See 14th Amdt, Sec. 2 — criminal loophole — too difficult for the MORON courts to understand.

  2. Demo Rep:

    State disenfranchisement is still subject to other constitutional restrictions (such as DPC, EPC, the 15th Amendment, and probably the 8th as well). See then-Justice Rehnquist’s unanimous opinion in Hunter v. Underwood (1985), http://supreme.justia.com/us/471/222/

  3. # 2 ALL party hack Supremes opinions about ALL things related to elections are a giant EVIL mess — due to all sorts of MORON classifications dreamed up out of thin air by such party hack Supremes — who are unable to detect the English language in the nearly dead U.S.A. Constitution — due to such party hack Supremes.

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