WA State Supremes To Decide Felon Voting Rights
The Washington state Supreme Court heard arguments in a case involving released felons and voting. The court is being asked to restore the voting rights to released felons who have fulfilled all the requirements of their release with the exception of fines.
“What this case is about is whether the state, once it decides to restore the vote to former felons, can make the right to vote turn on whether particular felons are wealthy enough to pay financial obligations immediately,” said Peter Danelo attorney for the ACLU.
The state is arguing that the fines are part of the sentence and should remain a requirement to be completed before voting rights are restored.
“They’re required to complete all terms of their sentence,” said State Attorney General Rob McKenna. “Just as a rich person would have to serve all of his time in jail even if he paid his financial obligations immediately upon conviction, all felons are required to pay their legal financial obligations.”
Here is another example of the ACLU running to the judiciary when they know they cannot get their way in the legislature which is where this debate actually belongs. What I can’t believe is that the courts took this case knowing that its actual place is in the state legislature.
The ACLU of Washington’s lawsuit was filed on behalf of three convicted felons: Daniel Madison of King County, Beverly DuBois of Spokane County and Dannielle Garner of Snohomish County.
All three were making regular monthly payments to the courts but were indigent and unable to pay off their fines, Danelo said.
Danelo said that indigent felons can’t be punished because they can’t immediately pay their fines. SOURCE
The ACLU is again trying to push a liberal agenda knowing that most released felons would vote for a Democratic candidate. This is the same argument being made by Hillary Clinton when she speaks about restoring felons’ voting rights nation wide. The Dems know that they cannot win the Presidency and likely will not win control of the House and Senate in November because they do not have the legitimate votes to do so.
They have to resort to registering their dogs, cats, dead people, illegal aliens, and felons in order to manipulate the numbers to get their candidates elected. This is a scam that has been put forth for a long time.
It was a subject of pride for the mob during the Kennedy Administration and the worst kept secret that they had influenced the election in Illinois which is what won JFK the Presidency. Rumors of stuffing ballot boxes are no secret in Chicago politics, home of the “smoky back room.”
The House Democratic Caucus is attempting to use the “culture of corruption” referring to the GOP in their quest to recapture the House and install Nancy Pelosi on the throne of Speaker of the House. But as we have seen time and time again, the opposite is actually the truth.
The ACLU knows that the only way for them to have their way in Washington is to take it to the courts. So they did. Let us hope that the Supremes in Washington have the sense to reject their petition and force them to take it to the legislature where it belongs. The whole nation is watching the outcome of this case.
Should the ACLU prevail in this very liberal state, I see a new crop of cases being brought nation wide.
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Posted by Gribbit on June 28, 2006 6:02 am
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