SCOTUS declines to intervene in Florida voting dispute
Not that it matters to our population, since Amendment 4 discriminates against people with past convictions for sexual offenses, but today the Supreme Court declined to intervene in a ping pong match between the Florida Governor and tens of thousands of disenfranchised felons who were hoping to vote in the upcoming election.
The Majority of the Justices blocked the citizen’s right to vote, while Justices Sotomayor, Ginzburg and Kagan had the integrity to dissent (interestingly they were also the only one with the integrity to give an opinion.
No surprise there – those old fossils are good for nothing. What an inefficient, antiquated, and useless system of determining the fate of 300+ millions people.
Just one more way of keeping so many from having their voice heard which is exactly what the equally useless sex offender registry does! Punishment and censorship – nothing more.
Honestly, this makes me happy. I know a lot of people will disagree, and I respect their right to do so. I was fined, imprisoned and placed on lifetime probation and Floridas sex offender registry due to a constructive possession of CP case. I will never be able to satisfy all the criminal penalties in my case. So, I don’t think its fair that other felons should have the right to vote if they haven’t satisfied all their penalties.
I agree with you. This is a big fu¢k you to the ACLU. I couldn’t be happier because they didn’t have the guts to include US in Amendment 4. I know they have helped a few of US in other cases, but this could have helped ALL of US.
As for the SCOTUS, no matter how just the cause of a case is, it can be won, dismissed, ruled against, or remanded back down, based on procedural technicalities. There is no “justice” involved.
You do make an interesting point. I am glad you shared that.
It goes to show that a lot of judges are worthless and two faced.
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Don’t let them beat you down. You have paid your debt to society just like any other felon. Taking your Constitutional rights away is actually a carefully disguised plot to destroy the Constitution using YOU and brainwashing victims of this plot to believe it’s okay. You are a stepping stone. Clever foreign special interests have infiltrated this country at all levels. The USA is under a type attack. Bless America. It is time to be as smart, as patient and as strategic as you can be. There is no room for error.
The charges that placed me on the registry stemmed from when I was 16. Im now 47. I have never once in my life been able to vote. And still till this day the flag holder over my garage on my home sits empty. Until my freedom is restored to me I’ll never place any flag in its place. I have seen the absolute worst of people for almost 30 years. This does not even raise my eyebrow. The hypocrisy iv seen from law makers to law enforcement has been astonishing. Im not suprised even a tiny bit.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/07/supreme-court-florida-felons-poll-tax.html
It appears an article about this can be read here.
Historically, SCOTUS is a Judicial Political Quagmire during Years of the Presidential Race
Very rarely, does SCOTUS remove its’ political Biases
In this particular case, the current governor is from the Right Side and ‘Carries’ a huge amount of State Presidential Electoral Votes(Remember, the Electoral College decides the Presidential Race), and some of the current Male ‘NEWBIES’ have been swayed, removing their conscious from a very important Civil Rights Issue
The Three Lady Jurists, of whom have a conscious, Respectfully dissented which says a whole lot during this very Highly divided Presidential Race.
Notice, that the Chief Justice, purposely, did not comment
In this case, the SCOTUS’ Majority used Politics over Precedents
FL felons would not be in this situation, were it not for the watered-down language endorsed by Florida Rights Restoration Coalition and Desmond Meade. Excluding those who had not “completed their sentences” may have sounded more popular and safe but led us directly down the path we are on now. Exclusion of former sex offenders was part of that same line of thinking.
Well put, Jacob.
well as to this I’m confused. My whole time in Florida (11/2013-12/2019) I was on the registry (lifetime) AND voted in every election. Maybe its because my conviction was from Illinois and not Florida. Not sure. At any rate, and please excuse my naivety of the intricacies of our “legal” system, but if you cant vote, then why are they making you paying taxes? Doesn’t this fall under the “taxation without representation” umbrella? Isn’t that one of the fundamental reasons we started the whole Revolutionary War to begin with?