Posted on 04/22/2019 7:27:25 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders (I) argued Monday that all prisoners, including domestic terrorists like the Boston Marathon bomber, should have the right to vote while they are incarcerated.
Speaking at a CNN town hall, Sanders was asked if he believes the right to vote should extend to serious criminals, such as Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who is in prison and has been sentenced to death.
“If somebody commits a serious crime, sexual assault, murder, they’re going to be punished,” Sanders said. “They may be in jail 10 years, 20 years, 50 years, their whole life. That’s what happens when you commit a serious crime."
"But I think the right to vote is inherent to our democracy," he continued. "Yes, even for terrible people, because once you start chipping away … you’re running down a slippery slope … I believe even if they are in jail, they’re paying the price to society, that should not take away their inherent American right to participate in our democracy.”
Earlier this month, Sanders called for more states to join Vermont and Maine in allowing imprisoned felons to vote.
After the senator's comments on Monday, CNN host Chris Cuomo told Sanders he might be writing an opposition ad against himself by arguing that the Boston Marathon bomber should be able to vote from jail.
“I’ve written many 30-second opposition ads against myself in my life, this will be just another one,” Sanders said. “But look, this is what I believe. Do you believe in democracy? Do you believe every single American 18 years of age or older who is an American citizen should have the right to vote?"
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Nobody who HoneyMooned in Soviet Russia should be allowed to hold office.
Who is this moron pandering to?
As if his vote will matter in Massachusetts for almost any office.
Well, of course he should be allowed to vote.
For Queen of his cellblock.
Nothing else.
Yeah, sure. For Dagestan’s president.
Who is this moron pandering to?
Terrorists and convicted felons?
His loony tune train has definitely jumped the shark.
And yet, after his sentence, he would deny him gun rights and self protection.
Murders need a vote!
The innocent need to be murdered.
Vote DNC! Satan needs your help to speed up the end times!
Sanders is running for President of our Republic, but doesn’t know it is.
“Do you believe every single American 18 years of age or older who is an American citizen should have the right to vote?”
No, I don’t.
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Thanks E. Pluribus Unum. The Biden-Sanders ticket to nowhere is shaping up.
Section 3 of the 14th Amendment discourages the states from allowing criminals to vote imo.
”14th Amendment, Section 2. Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime [emphases added], the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State."
Remember in November 2020!
MAGA!
You’ve got to give it to Bernie. He may be crazy, but he’s consistent. I have conservative friends who wouldn’t vote for him in a million years, but they admire him because he appears to actually believe what he says. Unlike people like The Clintons, who have no convictions at all.
Sorry, post 14 should reference 14th Amendment section 2, not section 3.
Harvesting votes wherever they can get them. Soon there will be no more living law-abiding dem voters.
Nobody who HoneyMooned in Soviet Russia should be allowed to hold office.
The BMB should have been publicly hanged within 10 days of his apprehension, and in any civilized country he would have been.
Wouldn't that leave Schmuckie as a useless taker?
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