The latest GOP redistricing scam is going to the Surpreme Court.

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7. this part of is why i'm such a big advocate for voting rights for felons and ex-felons

i do not trust governments to decide who gets their right to vote taken away.

yeah, yeah, felons are rotten people and maybe they don't "deserve" the right to vote; but the more important issue is that *government* doesn't deserve the right to disenfranchise people selectively.

that power is a recipe for self-preservation, self-selection, and corruption. it is anti-democratic to the core.

it is part of the reason you have racist laws and sentencing requirements (crack vs. cocaine, e.g.), selective enforcement, a system that lets the rich get off easy, etc.

and then, of course, it is part of the reason why right-wingers can do as well as they do electorally, even (especially) in the south, where there are often rather high concentrations of exactly the kind of people who you would expect to oppose them.

you would be surprised at how many of these people have been disenfranchised.