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.
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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?
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.
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
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.