On August 4, the Fifth Circuit struck down Mississippi’s ban on ex-felon voter registration. The basis is the Eighth Amendment, which says, “Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.”
Here is the decision in Hopkins v Hosemann, 19-60662. The vote was 2-1.
Hopefully and expected to be overturned by the Supreme Court.
Why hopefully?
TOTAL PERVERSION OF 8 AMDT — OLDE ROTTED DARK AGE ENGLISH CRIMINAL PUNISHMENTS – BRANDING, DUMPING IN WATER – NEAR DROWNING, TRIAL BY BATTLE, BURNING ALIVE OF WITCHES, WHIPPING, BOTCHED BEHEADINGS, ETC.
14-2 AMDT CRIMINAL FATAL LOOPHOLE SINCE 1868.
ON TO SCOTUS REVERSAL
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P-A-T
Hopefully we can get to a point where ex-convicts recover all of their constitutional rights once their sentence is complete.
If someone has not committed a burglary in the last 10 years are they an ex-burglar?
When a person serves their time their liberties and rights are restricted. Once they pay their debt to society they should have them back and that includes voting.
Criminals should not be allowed to vote.
Most criminals don’t get rehabilitated. That rarely ever happens. Some of them get better at not being caught. In a better system of justice, punishment for felonies would be being executed immediately upon being found guilty, which should take place within a day or two of being apprehended, or perhaps being sold into slavery, or whipped through a march to the border and exiled. For lesser crimes it might involve public whipping, mutilation, stockades and the like. There should be no coddling of criminals, particularly in conditions nicer than a medieval dungeon, and releasing them from captivity is suicidal for society. Giving them voting rights is particularly grotesque.
HOW MANY CONVICTS DUE TO FALSE EVIDENCE – ESP PLANTED BY COPS/PROCS —
OR RIGGED JURIES ???
VERY FEW, AND EVEN MOST OF THOSE ARE CAREER CRIMINALS WHO JUST HAPPEN TO BE CONVICTED OF THE WRONG CRIME. THEY ALL CLAIM TO BE INNOCENT BUT YOU’LL SOONER FIND A VIRGIN GIRL IN A WHOREHOUSE THAN A TRUE INNOCENT IN JAIL, PRISON, OR EVEN POLICE CUSTODY.
https://innocenceproject.org
WHAT PCT OF ILLEGAL CONVICTIONS ???
ESP IN DEATH PENALTY CASES –
DUE TO FELON COPS, LIARS, INCOMPETENT LAB TESTS, ETC
A LOT LESS THAN THE LEFTIST CRIMINAL CODDLING SCUM WANT YOU TO THINK, PARTICULARLY WHEN YOU CONSIDER THAT JUST ABOUT EVERY “WRONGLY” ACCUSED OR CONVICTED INDIVIDUAL IS A HABITUAL CRIMINAL USUAL SUSPECT SKELL.
I wonder if the individual will have his 2nd Amendment rights restored.
That would also be dumb.