Time for full inclusion! As long as felons are voting with ease why not have an unindicted criminally negligent, traitorous candidate be President, again?- Do you think the left will support restoring constitutionally protected Second Amendment rights to felons? Why not – why do felons lose their Second Amendment right to protect themselves?
Ed Morrissey at Hot Air had a response to the recently announced policy of Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe (former DNC chair, Clinton bundler and past and current creep of first magnitude) that he has by executive order restored voting rights to a huge number of felons.
Should Virginia felons have the right to vote?
Our own Larry O’Connor joined Fox Business’ Lou Dobbs Tonight to answer the question: Should Virginia felons who have completed their sentences have the right to vote? Larry addressed the issue yesterday, calling it a gift from Governor Terry McAuliffe to his longtime pal Hillary Clinton, especially given that McAuliffe’s executive action doesn’t take into account whether the felons have fulfilled their requirements for victim compensation — or even whether they’ve committed any more crimes. Our new editor-at-large made the same arguments on Fox, and reminded people that 200,000 new voters in Virginia matters in November:
We agree with Morrissey’s contention:
Theoretically, I’d favor restoring civil rights to felons, but not until and unless all time and probation has been served, all restitution has been made, and no other crimes have been committed. Waving a wand and abruptly restoring voting rights when those conditions have not been met is not just a cynical political act — it undermines the concept of justice for those victims who have every right to expect their state government to enforce those sentences absent sudden evidence of innocence.
