A Republican grateful for the ACLU campaign to allow convicted felons the right to vote (pictures)

[TheBigotBasher]

Yet another Republican will be grateful for the work of the ACLU



THAT ONE ^^^

Who has since become :-


THAT ONE ^^

Jesus heals Republicans real quick ;-)

I think a jury of her fellow Republicans may give her more of a problem than a jury of Democrats. The Freepers seriously want her punished for wasting Police time and messing their campaign. She may have just earned her place in the heart of the Republican Party.


A scapegoat.

The evidence - isn't it good to live in a Country that relies on evidence and not just confessions. A good thing she supported the constitution! lol.



Her home for a shortish while



A theme tune to remember her by
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWRS5UhZJfc

And thank heavens for the ACLU - they even help out Repugs

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08269/914855-192.stm

Jailhouse vote: Even some convicted of crimes can cast a ballot
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Eight years ago, six convicted felons with the help of the American Civil Liberties Union petitioned the state Supreme Court for the right to vote, arguing that the Pennsylvania Voter Registration Act was unconstitutional.

The circumstances of the felons varied. Four of them were incarcerated and two were free at the time, but unable to register to vote. The statute was widely interpreted as preventing all felons from voting.

The state justices agreed with the petitioners that the law went too far and they reinstated the voting rights of felons, but with conditions. Felons have the right to vote unless they are incarcerated at election time. They cannot vote if they're convicted and confined to prison, jail or a halfway house. If the felon is on probation or parole, however, there are no prohibitions against voting.

If an inmate who has been charged with a felony is awaiting trial, he or she can register and vote by absentee ballot. When felons finish their sentence, they can petition for full restoration of voting rights as allowed by the Felony Disenfranchisement Act. Clear enough, but the law on felon disenfranchisement is still widely misunderstood, even in the criminal justice system.

(edited for more pics)

[northofdenali]

1. It will never cease to amaze me that the ACLU is so disdained by the RW

They've defended everyone from the Black Panthers and Abby Hoffman to the Ku Kux Klan and neo-Nazis. The ACLU was founded on the solid back of the U.S. Constitution and its instruction for the nation.

I'm sure Ms. Todd will have the best defense available to her (probably paid for by the RNC) but if she has the ACLU working for her constitutional rights, she'll be very well represented.

I laugh at the idiots and their "card-carrying member of the ACLU" bullshit. I am one, and have been since 1981, the year my daughter was born and I figured out that life really isn't all about me! If they knew WHAT the ACLU actually does, it would shut them up and quickly. Hey, dude? The gun you have the right to carry concealed? Yep, ACLU got it for ya! Your right to burn a cross in your own yard? Guess who? You want to say n***** in public? Yep, gotcha again. Give a riot-starting speech at the town hall meeting? One more time........

Thanks for the post - and the support from across the pond. I just hope you folks will not stay away in droves because of Sarah the Sellout. 90% of Alaskans are not like her, and at least 50% of us don't even like her at all!

:hi:



Edited for the idiotic adding of an apostrophe where one wasn't needed.

[TheBigotBasher]

2. Thanks for that

I love America, I just do not like what Bush has done to your COuntry and I know you could be so much better as a Nation.

As for Sarah Palin, the UK invented freak show comedy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxLBpa7g5fg

[northofdenali]

3. OK, now you owe me a keyboard cleanup!

But you'll have to come to the real Alaska to do so!

I passed the YouTube vid on to several folks, and you're 100% right - you gave us Monty Python, after all....... not to mention my absolute GOD, John Lennon.

Most of us don't like the BushWhacking we've been given either. Hopefully, if there is one (or several), God has decided that little bit of test is over and we can graduate to reality and sanity.

[no_hypocrisy]

4. I forgot,that's right! G. Gordon Liddy CAN vote . . .

Lucky thing the ACLU was there for him.

[TheBigotBasher]

5. Human Rights are for all.

Even the "lowest of the low". Human Rights are for all.

Those who committed crimes deserve a fair trial and humane treatment whilst in prison. When they get out, having paid their debt to Society, all freedoms should be restored. And that should apply even to Republicans.

[TheBigotBasher]

6. Her arrest outfit looks very similar

to this prison outfit

[grantcart]

7. Republicans are becoming fans of prison reform - one at a time

[PBS Poll-435]

8. Baller!

:rofl: