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Virginia Governor Restoring Voting Rights to Felons
NY TIMES ^ | 22 APR 2016 | Sheryl Gay Stolberg

Posted on 04/22/2016 9:05:38 AM PDT by onona

WASHINGTON — Gov. Terry McAuliffe of Virginia will use his executive power on Friday to restore voting rights to more than 200,000 convicted felons, circumventing his Republican-run legislature. The action will overturn a Civil War-era provision in the state’s Constitution aimed, he said, at disenfranchising African-Americans.

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: birdsofafeather; tedspeople; terrymcauliffe; virginia
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Legislature ? We don't need no stinking legislature.
1 posted on 04/22/2016 9:05:38 AM PDT by onona
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Is he saying all African-Americans are Criminals ?


2 posted on 04/22/2016 9:07:20 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: butlerweave

Great point !


3 posted on 04/22/2016 9:08:19 AM PDT by onona (Honey this isn't Kindergarten. We are in an all out war for the survival of our Country !)
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The left won’t be satisfied until even incarcerated jailbirds are allowed to vote as they are in Vermont. I’ve heard that also includes Maine now.


4 posted on 04/22/2016 9:09:07 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (ObaMao: Fake America, Fake Messiah, Fake Black man. How many fakes can you fit into one Zer0?)
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To: onona

Felons aren’t known to vote much


5 posted on 04/22/2016 9:10:31 AM PDT by WriteOn (Truth)
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Seems to me that the Civil War-era provision was and is reasonable!


6 posted on 04/22/2016 9:10:54 AM PDT by Red_Devil 232 ((VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!))
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I wonder if it has occurred to these crapheads, that if they hadn’t killed so many of their future voters, they wouldn’t be so desperate for voters from whatever source.


7 posted on 04/22/2016 9:11:21 AM PDT by CMailBag
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To: onona

Terry the Clinton bagman strikes again.

ESAD, McAuliffe.


8 posted on 04/22/2016 9:12:04 AM PDT by ScottinVA
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200,000 more democrat voters.


9 posted on 04/22/2016 9:12:39 AM PDT by for-q-clinton (If at first you don't succeed keep on sucking until you do succeed)
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To: WriteOn

they are when they are PAID


10 posted on 04/22/2016 9:16:50 AM PDT by conservativesister (Elio Motors coming 2016 WooHoo!!!)
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To: onona

Kind of racist to say this was “aimed” at blacks. No one makes felons commit their crimes.

Only a liberal looks at crime stats and says that because blacks commit more crimes, the laws are set up to convict blacks.

Its like blaming society for rapists because we have laws against rape that target the activites rapists do at a much higher rate than everyone else.


11 posted on 04/22/2016 9:17:08 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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Wonder if McAwful will restore their Second Amendment rights, too?

LOL! When Hillarys fly...

12 posted on 04/22/2016 9:17:37 AM PDT by kiryandil (.)
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They will have to have served their time and completed parole as well.

A small set of the felon population, but it’s a start.


13 posted on 04/22/2016 9:22:36 AM PDT by Snickering Hound
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Executive orders cannot override a constitution. Ridiculous. But of course all he needs is a single Obama appointee to win the state for Hillary.


14 posted on 04/22/2016 9:28:04 AM PDT by montag813
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To: butlerweave

Felon, it’s a newly identified race.


15 posted on 04/22/2016 9:39:47 AM PDT by MrBambaLaMamba (Obama - "I will stand with the Muslims")
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L’état, c’est moi !
16 posted on 04/22/2016 9:44:18 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Obamanomics:Trickle Up Poverty)
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I miss the rule of law.

Thomas Jefferson once talked about watering the Tree of Liberty. I wonder what he would say about a tyrant who overrode his state’s laws without authorization from the legislative body responsible for writing the laws.


17 posted on 04/22/2016 9:47:31 AM PDT by Pollster1 (Somebody who agrees with me 80% of the time is a friend and ally, not a 20% traitor. - Ronald Reagan)
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The action, which Mr. McAuliffe said was justified under an expansive legal interpretation of his executive clemency authority, goes far beyond what other governors have done, experts say, and will almost certainly provoke a backlash from Virginia Republicans, who have resisted measures to expand felons’ voting rights. It was planned in secrecy, and came amid an intensifying national debate over race, voting and the criminal justice system.

So "executive clemency" gives the governor power to suspend the state constitution?

I know nothing about the use of gubernatorial clemency in Virginia. Is there precedent for this?

18 posted on 04/22/2016 10:01:54 AM PDT by sphinx
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Nope, he's breaking new ground here.

Will allow felons to hold public office, as well.

19 posted on 04/22/2016 10:09:12 AM PDT by onona (Honey this isn't Kindergarten. We are in an all out war for the survival of our Country !)
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L’état, c’est moi !

You nailed it ! Of course, he has a great example to follow in DC

20 posted on 04/22/2016 10:11:12 AM PDT by onona (Honey this isn't Kindergarten. We are in an all out war for the survival of our Country !)
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