I don’t see how this passes a prohibition on Ex post facto laws. Article Nine, Section Three of the US Constitution.
If pay back of fees was not a condition of your conviction, how can it be imposed after you have served your term? Perhaps years later? And what about Due Process?
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Vote until your heart is content, my fellow brothers and sisters!!!
EXERCISE YOUR DAMN RIGHTS!!!
Along those lines:
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Come on down we could use you. I live in Tampa which is blue enough, but wished I lived in Val Demmings area. The impeachment showed her to be a vibrant, articulate representative, possibly presidential material.
Silly me; I always believed the Attorney General to be the nation’s “top law enforcement officer.” Thanks, President Trump for clearing that up for me…delusional and dangerous. I’m still hoping for that stroke or a massive heart attack.
Thankfully a myriad of factors and circumstances largely out of their control renders them powerless to do anything significant about their plight. Otherwise the rest of us would have to compete with them for various resources. But Jesus still loves them.
I’m reminded of the adage that if the adulterer spent half the energy being good to their spouse as they spend lying, sneaking and chasing around after a new honey, their marriage problems would be solved and everyone would win.
In this telling, it’s Republicans who should discern good policies that actually benefit their voters, instead of always trolling to own the libs, they won’t need this vote suppression shit.
Florida – authorities overtly shaping election outcomes since forever.
Very interesting. Spending so many resources on thwarting the will of the people. They’ll get really desperate when ex-prisoners add to the majority.
It is about power but also that “those” people shouldn’t be able to vote.
What is an “ex-felon”? You’re an ex-convict once you’re released from prison. Aren’t you a felon forever once you’ve been convicted of a felony? (Unless your conviction gets overturned…)
Note: I do think felons should be able to vote.
How are we supposed to win if we can’t cheat, they complain
OT, but encouraging: https://www.politico.com/news/2020/02/18/democrats-launch-ad-campaign-michigan-pennsylvania-wisconsin-115739
This is such an asshole law.
“Meanwhile, a spokesperson for Gov. Ron DeSantis ®, who is a defendant in the lawsuit, told TPM that the governor’s office disagreed with the ruling and that they would seek a review from the full 11th Circuit Appeals Court.”
Because of course he will. And then to the United States Supreme Court. Because delays, obfuscation, lies and intransigence tend to prevent poor disenfranchised people from making the effort to exercise what should be their absolute Constitutional Right.
Republicans are all fascists now. All of them.
Because, you know, might makes right and all that stuff. I am a Floridian living among a bunch of truly lovely people and a whole passel of goobers.
Tierney, what are “LFOs”? I’m guessing something Financial Obligations? Lasting? Lawyer? Legal? Legitimate?
Isn’t it too late to get on the 2020 docket for SCOTUS? If that is the case, the former felons will be able to vote this fall.