Watch Presidential Candidate Bernie Sanders Voice Support For Voter Enfranchisement

[Note: This is not a political endorsement by Florida Action Committee.] In his April 22nd Town Hall on CNN, presidential candidate Bernie Sanders expressed his unwavering support for the right to vote for all adult citizens. He reiterates that there should be no excluded group in our democracy, and that as soon as you start excluding groups it becomes a slippery

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Reason.com on Gundy: Gorsuch and Sotomayor Showing Signs Of Support

Hopefully you have taken the opportunity to read or listen to the recent oral arguments in the Gundy v. United States case. By many measures, it was a very good start in the Supreme Court case which challenges the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act of 2006 (SORNA) on the grounds that it unconstitutionally delegates legislative powers to the Executive.

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Marsy’s Law (Ballot Initiative Amendment 6) returns, bundled, after previously being struck from the ballot

We wrote about this proposed amendment back in March of this year. Since then, despite being struck from this November’s ballot because “the title and summary do not meet the requirements of Florida laws … in fully, fairly, and accurately telling the voters the chief purpose of the proposed amendment, and because the title and summary are, in addition, misleading” (Judge

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