9th Circuit ruling on felons voting rights

[Matthew Carberry]

http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2010/jan/9th-circuit-restores-felon-voting-rights

There's some buzz around the gun blogosphere.  The same arguments the Court makes for disproportionate racial impact on felons voting rights could be applied to firearms ownership.  Depending who gets a model case strategy worked up (clone Guru now!) this could start the dialog about what crimes should be felonies and what types of felonies actually rationally deserve the denial of fundamental gun rights.   

[AZRedhawk44]

(clone Guru now!)     

And that Gura guy, too!   

[KD5NRH]

http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2010/jan/9th-circuit-restores-felon-voting-rights

There's some buzz around the gun blogosphere.  The same arguments the Court makes for disproportionate racial impact on felons voting rights could be applied to firearm

Could be applied to walking down the street too.  Some things should be denied to felons, at least while they're still in prison.

[Matthew Carberry]

And that Gura guy, too!   

Quiet you! 

[Nitrogen]

Could be applied to walking down the street too.  Some things should be denied to felons, at least while they're still in prison.

IIRC, teh case is about felons after they serve their time.  If that's indeed the case, I believe they should have all rights restored after they fully serve their time.  By this, I don't mean parole or conditional release programs, but serving a sentence in full as determined by teh sentencing judge.  It should not require special action by another judge.

[Balog]

If you can't trust a person to vote (own guns etc) you shouldn't release them from prison. And we'd have enough prison space to make that a reality if we stopped locking people up for so many stupid reasons.

[Matthew Carberry]

Actually, the case involves convicts in prison.

[cassandra and sara's daddy]

IIRC, teh case is about felons after they serve their time.  If that's indeed the case, I believe they should have all rights restored after they fully serve their time.  By this, I don't mean parole or conditional release programs, but serving a sentence in full as determined by teh sentencing judge.  It should not require special action by another judge.

interestingly enough in the real world someone who finishs all his time almost has to be either a screw up in jail or an incorrigible career criminal. otherwise everyone gets out a lil early with parole and god time

[KD5NRH]

IIRC, teh case is about felons after they serve their time.

In a surprise ruling even for a notoriously liberal federal court that frequently gets overturned, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has restored the voting rights of incarcerated felons in order to end racial discrimination of that population.

[Nitrogen]

I am obviously wrong about the case then, and agree voting rights for someone in prison currently serving a sentence are not necessary.