Amy Coney Barrett wrote a dissent in 2019 saying people with felony convictions should be able to bu

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Max Burns
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Things always end well when disenfranchised people have easy access to guns.

Ari Berman
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Amy Coney Barrett wrote a dissent in 2019 saying people with felony convictions should be able to buy guns but not be able to vote

[roamer65]

1. Barrett is a piece of shit.

[Solly Mack]

4. Yes

[ellie]

7. She's a fucking loon.

She has no place on the Supreme Court.

[dalton99a]

2. .

[Baked Potato]

11. Holy moly! That face today! Friggen gross!

🤮

[dweller]

3. who said "the ballot is stronger than the bullet"

yeh, what he said ...

✌🏼

[crickets]

5. Because the ability to kill is more important than the ability to vote? 🤦‍♀️

[BeyondGeography]

6. She's a batshit crazy freak

[oasis]

8. The hearings are going to be very interesting.

[TruckFump]

9. She truly is nuts.

There is no other way to say it. Belongs to a cult that is totally wacko. And this opinion??? Felon with a gun is OK...but voting...NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

GMAFB!

[FBaggins]

10. That's not quite an accurate summary of her dissent

It wasn't that felony disenfranchisement was unconstitutional on its face, it was that the law as applied to that specific defendant was not constitutional.

The felony in question was apparently mail fraud. So she's saying that mail fraud is not the type of violent crime that makes someone a danger to society.

The distinction with voting rights is probably dicta and not as clear, but was an odd differentiation of crimes that indicted the individual's virtue - and that voting rights were connected in some way.

Better argument might be that this is an attempt to legislate from the bench.