Discussion: FIRST ON TPM: Missouri Supreme Court Just Wiped Most Stealing Felonies Off The Books

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Commence the RWNJ howling…

Does this restore voting rights to those cleared of felony convictions?

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More voters! Yay!

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'Zactly! (Conservative heads explode…, again.)

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Just what you would expect in a liberal controlled State like Missouri!

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Oooooh gotta love it when the law means what the law says.

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Wow. Just… wow. I can’t even.

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Lost in a wherefore. Poor legislators.

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Ok, I’ll come right out and type it. RIGGED!

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Kudos to the defense attorneys who found this. Stealing is bad but the contrarian in me appreciates legislators looking foolish, no matter how retroactively.

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Especially Republican ones.

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That’s sarcasm, right?

TheY raN OUT of BLAcks. SO no MORE NEEd for NO SteaLING LAws.

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Good. Hillary won’t be charged with a felony when she steals the election.

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Thanks for reporting this case. I am afraid the kind of legislative screw-up found here is not uncommon but such screw-ups are not often reported in the press. Things have only gotten worse as legislatures have reduced costs by retiring or laying off long time legislative aides who assisted in the drafting of legislation. Those long time aides were often highly qualified professionals. In many cases they have been replaced by ALEC and other special interest group legislation drafted by highly partisan, but often newly minted attorneys. In the area of criminal law legislators have been left to draft laws themselves. That is a task way beyond most of them. .

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Mayyyybe. I’ll never tell.

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But only if Missouri swings the election.

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or when legislators modify law so that it is in direct contradiction to the law in question… Yeah, there is no evidence that the south is being dumbed down…

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The 18th Century aristocrats who said the common people didn’t have the skill to rule themselves wisely are laughing their decapitated heads off now.

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I confess to confusion here. By the very nature of the word “theft,” doesn’t that imply there was some sort of “value” to that which was thieved?

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