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An amazing fact about conservative jurisprudence is it holds there is no affirmative right to vote, but that you *do* have a claim under the 14th Amendment to get other people’s votes excluded from the count.
That’s what the infamous “don’t use this case as precedent” part of the Bush v Gore ruling was …
They were trying to avoid the natural implication of their holding that there is an affirmative right to vote in the constitution that supercedes state law.
They were trying to avoid the natural implication of their holding that there is an affirmative right to vote in the constitution that supercedes state law.
By the same token, I’ve thought for a while that a movement for a Right To Vote constitutional amendment would be a useful organizing/messaging tool if nothing else.
I think it would surprise people to learn no such right exists.
I think it would surprise people to learn no such right exists.
It’s unconstitutional to stop people from voting *because* they are Black or young or whatever but it’s not unconstitutional to stop people from voting *for some other reason* including a reason that disproportionately burdens young people, Black people, etc
