No, voting is not a "privilege," you constitutional illiterate.

"Undeniably, the Constitution of the United States protects the right of all qualified citizens to vote, in state as well as in federal, elections."

Reynolds v Sims, 377 US 533, 554 (1964) https://twitter.com/GovRonDeSantis/status/1217867897906913282
The next year, in Harper v Virginia BOE:

"[T]he right to vote in federal elections is conferred by Art. I, § 2, of the Constitution..."
"...We conclude that a State violates the Equal Protection Clause whenever it makes the affluence of the voter or payment of any fee an electoral standard."

Harper v Virginia Bd of Elections, 383 US 663, 665-66 (1966)
There are dozens of other SCOTUS opinions, hundreds more from Circuit Courts of Appeal

The right to vote has been a properly recognized right since long before Ron DeKlantis was even conceived
We already do prison gerrymandering here in the US. It's why districts are drawn so prisons full of non-voters are put in Republican districts; inmates count for apportionment, but don't cast ballots https://twitter.com/russ_of/status/1217971424649994242
There's a great thread by @JohnFPfaff on prison gerrymandering here:

https://twitter.com/johnfpfaff/status/939909254319869952?s=21 https://twitter.com/JohnFPfaff/status/939909254319869952
Read the 26th Amendment again. Closer this time.

https://twitter.com/hmminterdasting/status/1217971671501541377
It's funny/sad because Tom Steyer and Michael Bloomberg could remake the electorate if they spent their money on that instead of their vanity campaigns https://twitter.com/avlgal/status/1217972487721451522
You're not making the point you think you're making

Try again. Do better.

https://twitter.com/hmminterdasting/status/1217973583491862528
It's an imperfect fit as precedent though. Richardson held that felon disenfranchisement didn't violate the EPC; here, FL voters have ended felon disenfranchisement, and the sole decider between enfranchised and disenfranchised is money https://twitter.com/morpheussbox/status/1217971913848512514
The people affected by Amendment 4 are no longer in prison

You're terrible at this

https://twitter.com/hmminterdasting/status/1217976817866498048
Crazy, right? https://twitter.com/troycoverdale/status/1217980667071467522
You're not wrong 😩 https://twitter.com/perrywadesam/status/1217990264574398465
cc: @BadLegalTakes https://twitter.com/astorytina/status/1217999064480079873
Zing! https://twitter.com/wile_e_atty/status/1217997701486346240
Varies by state; if a state wants to disenfranchise all felons, the Supreme Court has decided they can (Richardson v Ramirez (1974))

In states like NC, rights are restored

Issue here is whether a state can selectively disenfranchise felons based on $$ https://twitter.com/scarlettethread/status/1217994277881552896
Yes. That's the nature of "paying your debt to society": once your sentence is done, it's done https://twitter.com/jordan81007378/status/1217992785678282753
Which section of the Constitution is that? https://twitter.com/smith444_d/status/1218006464775634945
Enough to know that the Second Amendment has nothing to do with Article I Section 2 https://twitter.com/jternoski/status/1218005011239702529
This tweet is gibberish https://twitter.com/smith444_d/status/1218007493621665792
The courts have interpreted the "previous condition of servitude" to solely mean chattel slavery https://twitter.com/sudogene/status/1218008398760960000
We call this a non sequitur

I'm not surprised a Big Guv'mint lover like yourself thinks states should be able to abridge God-given natural rights though. Pathetic. https://twitter.com/smith444_d/status/1218009763587321856
It's what happens when you elevate 9 unelected judges to deity status while letting the Article I branch get away with doing nothing at all

Congress could easily end ex-prisoner disenfranchisement tomorrow https://twitter.com/sudogene/status/1218010146615504896
Never. The Thirteenth Amendment abolishing slavery bakes in an exception for incarceration, so openly enslaved prisoners (see, e.g., Alabama) can't be slaves https://twitter.com/agtmadcat/status/1218010274419990528
People are inherently disposed to be slavers. They want Big Guv'mint Daddy to run every aspect of everyone else's life. https://twitter.com/ickycasket/status/1218008406189137925
You sound like you've sturdied it pretty thoroughly, so it shouldn't take you long to point out the section

https://twitter.com/smith444_d/status/1218009893367472129
Indeed https://twitter.com/rainekasey/status/1218011436531834882
https://twitter.com/danmanx/status/1218011877126627329
Where did I ever say I wanted to eliminate the Electoral College? 😂

Feel free to quote me. I'll help: https://mobile.twitter.com/search?q=%22electoral%20college%22%20from%3Agreg_doucette https://twitter.com/smith444_d/status/1218011928833843201
I'm amazed you're capable of autonomous breathing https://twitter.com/smith444_d/status/1218012692209790976
Awful lot of words to say "I'm sorry, 'moral turpitude' isn't in there and I was full of shit" https://twitter.com/smith444_d/status/1218012966060118016
No

Amazingly, I don't comment on every pet issue you think is appropriate at any given moment in time 😱 https://twitter.com/jternoski/status/1218014206475276288
Touché https://twitter.com/jeffbachtel/status/1218014603554148353
"I love the Constitution, except for the parts that complicate my current political agenda!" https://twitter.com/sberfield/status/1218015925971980288
Ohhh I suspect he's missed a bit more than the Ninth tbqh

https://twitter.com/meganmunroe4/status/1218014893447811073
It's just God's way of giving out rights, one high five at a time

https://twitter.com/thetophat21/status/1218016753655197699
Philosophically, I think those who have completed their term of imprisonment should have all their rights restored, fully and without exception

Legally, you'll be shocked to learn the courts have decided "well regulated" means regulations are allowed https://twitter.com/jternoski/status/1218016777197838336
The inevitable outcome of an inflexible monopoly that couldn't adapt to changing political winds and the self-interests of its members 😉

(This is part of why I appreciate you btw) https://twitter.com/torriangray/status/1218015410148110338
Non-felons already vote on the state level

Felons vote too, in a number of states – including Florida

The issue here isn't felon vs non-felon. It's felon-with-money vs felon-without-money

https://twitter.com/dlew123456/status/1218023193757278208
Are you just gonna throw out an assortment of totally unrelated hypotheticals all night?

You're inability to stay on-topic is boring https://twitter.com/jternoski/status/1218020908394319873
Already did. Try to keep up. https://twitter.com/mrpasado/status/1218024326206803968
You seem *really* desperate to be blocked 😂

It's pathetic https://twitter.com/jternoski/status/1218023977286762497
You asked about whether regulations were illegal. I explained to what the courts have ruled, from the most liberal justices to conservative stalwarts like Scalia

I'm sorry if you don't understand that

¯\\_(ツ)_/¯ https://twitter.com/jternoski/status/1218023680938270720
cc: @BadLegalTakes

https://twitter.com/carnayasada/status/1218029487289520129
Perfectly legal for most of this country's existence https://twitter.com/j_torba/status/1218029353201737729
So the citizens of Florida outrank the Florida Supreme Court

Like when they ratified Amendment Four to restore voting rights to felons

Glad you agree with us 👍👍

https://twitter.com/carnayasada/status/1218034961682436096
They don't, they just dive into my @'s begging for attention https://twitter.com/lmcroars/status/1218036614506713089
Close but not quite: excludes murderers and sex offenders, who still have to go through the regular restoration process (Florida Constitution, Article VI, Section 4(b)) https://twitter.com/oblivionvortex/status/1218036682500513792
I know understanding words is hard for you, but "people who participate in ... other crimes" are now allowed to vote in Florida

The issue is whether they have money, not whether they've committed a crime

Tweet less. Read more. https://twitter.com/spikepoptart/status/1218036712024219651
Apparently. I don't understand it either https://twitter.com/djdunclive/status/1218038078570287106
I'll give them both my vote and a donation 🤣 https://twitter.com/jonathan_6229/status/1218038491293966337
As entertaining as this has been, I've got an 8am conference call and then a court hearing

Good night folks! Enjoy Governor DeKlantis getting ratioed in my absence
As entertaining as this has been, I've got an 8am conference call and then a court hearing Good night folks! Enjoy Governor DeKlantis getting ratioed in my absence
As entertaining as this has been, I've got an 8am conference call and then a court hearing Good night folks! Enjoy Governor DeKlantis getting ratioed in my absence
🤡: "You're SO MAD at my hot takes!"

Also 🤡:
Except most felonies aren't "felonies for a reason" 😂

And former felons were armed from 1787 until the 1960s and society functioned just fine https://twitter.com/jordan81007378/status/1218160173388304389
Except that's not what the text of Amendment 4 said

A 6-justice majority of the Supreme Court has ruled states can disenfranchise ex-inmates, yes. But Florida doesn't disenfranchise all ex-inmates, just the poor ones – that's unconstitutional https://twitter.com/_tomross/status/1218169459342544896
Do they speak English in What? https://twitter.com/jordan81007378/status/1218166659246182400
Let's try this differently: Do you think a state can criminalize flag burning? Let's assume a state's voters make prohibiting flag burning part of the state constitution https://twitter.com/_tomross/status/1218173256458481670
Where did I propose taking away gun rights? https://twitter.com/586jcm/status/1218180228968828928
Ah, so you were sharing unrelated gibberish for no discernible purpose. Noted. https://twitter.com/586jcm/status/1218181058350456832
Idk whether to blame the schools or the parents or the radio waves the Government broadcast into the guy's head b/c he bought the cheap tinfoil https://twitter.com/pullingaclaudia/status/1218176627206770690
Not gonna say "I told you so" because I'm a nice guy 😉 https://twitter.com/wqsaves/status/1218181372050919424
I don't oppose showing ID to vote

So long as it includes providing IDs to the indigent, free of charge https://twitter.com/jternoski/status/1218183107591004164
(A point I've made before) https://twitter.com/greg_doucette/status/1007261697281798144
All of that except the PTO. Hours for government agencies can be modified to accommodate a variety of work schedules without forcing the employer to pay more https://twitter.com/rockshrimp/status/1218184376674025472
I'll be busy making money hand over fist from all the murderers and rapists he's going to set free to unleash hell on the countryside as he personally confiscates everyone's guns and such https://twitter.com/jternoski/status/1218188620563206144
NC has early voting for nearly 2 weeks. Surely your wife has 30 free minutes somewhere in a 17,280-minute timespan https://twitter.com/kylejahner/status/1218188349225295872
Ah, and here we finally get to the crux of the issue. You're not immigrant; you're native-born. Because someone distantly related to you had to suffer, everyone else should suffer at least as much

What a sad, pathetic existence you live https://twitter.com/jternoski/status/1218187017198145537
Jay is one of those Big Guv'mint statists who thinks he's owning the libs with his incisive repartee. I'm just responding in kind

https://twitter.com/thetophat21/status/1218196147724070912
It made me laugh b/c it would make me a 4th-generation Polish immigrant on my mom's side 😂 My grandfather's maternal grandmother's birth certificate is even in Russian https://twitter.com/dubnosnibor/status/1218197228004814849
Meanwhile my biological father's side of the family has been here since at least the Revolutionary War, if @Ancestry is to be believed

Under Jay's theory, I can be a Schrödinger immigrant!
The Immigration & Nationality Act didn't exist until 1952; can't be "above" a non-existent law

Quite a few poor folks without ID are native-born descendants of other poor folks. Ex-slaves, rural whites, etc. Weird an immigrant like you opposes them voting https://twitter.com/jternoski/status/1218198654361706497
And when a state provides for automatic restoration to felons, as Florida did when its voters ratified Amendment 4 and made it part of their state's constitution, the distinction is no longer whether someone is a felon or not a felon

This isn't hard https://twitter.com/kurtschlichter/status/1218201509478846464
I'm blaming lack of caffeine https://twitter.com/joefl65/status/1218202461510553607
It's a real thing, typically used in legal matters where "character and fitness" are at issue

Historically, a crime of moral turpitude was limited to something involving dishonesty (fraud, etc). It's since been expanded to include most felonies https://twitter.com/zeroefficiency/status/1218202928424636416
Witty! https://twitter.com/andrewbdaniels/status/1218203045814788096
The Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery, sorry https://twitter.com/petemos06914904/status/1218203167915225088
Of course now I've got Schlicter's CHUDs barreling into my @'s repeating the same gibberish as the ones from last night

Jesus you people are boring
https://twitter.com/jonathanwhendry/status/1218204979275751425
Touché https://twitter.com/syberghost/status/1218206296429735936
Yes

https://twitter.com/jmtomsick/status/1218207151388164096
I don't have minions. I quote-tweet so random passersby can easily scroll the LOLetry

And if you think valid citations are somehow less persuasive because I typed "DeKlantis," that says more about you than it does us tbqh 😂 https://twitter.com/andrewbdaniels/status/1218220346723262464
An innate desire for victimhood https://twitter.com/bykerseven/status/1218221464517840898
You think firearms ownership is a privilege? F*ckin' YIKES https://twitter.com/realdocbrent/status/1218265485826916352
Can confirm https://twitter.com/greedyshitbird/status/1218272432328445959
lol: https://www.heraldsun.com/news/local/article222036975.html https://twitter.com/guardamerican/status/1218280850552283137
I knoooowww 😩 Lots of missed opportunities ITT https://twitter.com/dtm609/status/1218282506014904325
Accurate https://twitter.com/j00bar/status/1218298674977169408
An American baby born in Mexico is a dual citizen at birth

The 14th Amendment provides birthright citizenship to children of Americans, and Chapter II Article 30(A)(i) of the Mexican Constitution provides birthright citizenship to those born in Mexico https://twitter.com/jternoski/status/1218302747457544192
People have such strong opinions about things they're totally wrong about 😂
Oh he's cycled through a litany of grievances in fairly short order. Voting rights, welfare queens, anchor babies, etc etc https://twitter.com/spol/status/1218307705468669953
🤣🤣🤣 https://twitter.com/bykerseven/status/1218313167840993282
I'm happy to abolish ICE and TSA tomorrow

One agency is 16 years old, the other is 18 years old. The country did fine for 225 years without either of them https://twitter.com/jternoski/status/1218691542245937152
And with no meaningful impact on security! https://twitter.com/doctorgoatmd/status/1218697209975332864
Sure. Make it a department store. https://twitter.com/jternoski/status/1218696722240679936
The first federal income tax was in the Revenue Act of 1861, during the Civil War

The 16th Amendment to the Constitution – providing for a permanent income tax – was ratified in 1913

Prohibition didn't start until 1920

C'mon man... https://twitter.com/jternoski/status/1218698340185071617
This tweet is gibberish https://twitter.com/foj_jeffrey/status/1218758768994979840
Literally everyone focusing on the "qualified" part doesn't seem to grasp the concept that Amendment 4 allows felons to vote. It's in the text. It's now part of the Florida constitution.

You people are tedious, jtdc
The truth hurts
¯\\_(ツ)_/¯

https://twitter.com/ncsupolysci81/status/1218761299146039296
False, there are at least two strands of American conservatism: anti-state, and anti-Left

You're just the typical Big Guv'mint type who thinks abuse of state power is fine as long as it owns the libz

https://twitter.com/ncsupolysci81/status/1218931059326406656
My clientele isn't on Twitter 😂

Tweet less. Think more.

https://twitter.com/ncsupolysci81/status/1218928781114707969
One of my minors at NCSU was Poli Sci. I can confirm that it wasn't this dumb in 2005-09 https://twitter.com/sudogene/status/1218939437083713536
Exactly right https://twitter.com/selfabsorbed7/status/1218941368434716679
https://twitter.com/coach_zac87/status/1218944228195229702
I think I remember @KevinMKruse doing a thread on this very topic? https://twitter.com/icepick87/status/1218947325042794497
It's sad that you went searching through my tweets for a January 2019 entry 😂 https://twitter.com/williamdbarnes/status/1218995118029578240
In the Twitter search field, add "from:username" after the search term you want https://twitter.com/cajun_royalty/status/1219101123182641152
Witty!

I'm not an immigration lawyer. Even if I were, you're not making the point you think you're making.

Try again. Do better. https://twitter.com/jternoski/status/1220222348365877253
It's comparable to his prior attempts at "debate" or whatever he thinks he's doing on here https://twitter.com/paulherzog3/status/1220224739613872128
On the contrary. Given his performance thus far, he needs all the help and encouragement he can get https://twitter.com/redmond_bdtw/status/1220225695046963200
At this point it's apparent you're just desperate for attention, but I'll play along

1️⃣ When have I promoted "open borders"? Feel free to quote me. I'll help you get started: https://twitter.com/search?q=borders%20from%3Agreg_doucette

2️⃣ How is Wuhan relevant to citizens' voting rights? https://twitter.com/jternoski/status/1220225615955140608
Do we think Jay understands that Wuhan is a city? Or no?
What do ICE and TSA have to do with borders? 😂

You do realize Customs & Border Protection handle borders, yes? https://twitter.com/jternoski/status/1220231257902211072
I'll happily travel to Hunan, just as soon as you coherently explain how it's relevant to citizens' voting rights – the topic of the thread you've spouted your gibberish on at length https://twitter.com/jternoski/status/1220231490287603712
You sound very desperate to be a victim, it's embarrassing. You have my pity https://twitter.com/jternoski/status/1220226685871763462
The nice thing about threads like this is that they're easy to scroll. Makes a nice log of people's tweets.

The first mention of Prohibition was from you, amid a flow of gibberish on the income tax

Unsurprisingly, you were wrong then too https://twitter.com/jternoski/status/1220232240862507009
I'm wondering if literally anyone will take the other side of this bet 😂 https://twitter.com/ratchet1332/status/1220232731503874050
Do you just keep throwing out random questions hoping eventually the conversation gets derailed?

You've got the attention span of a crack-addled goldfish that hasn't slept in a week https://twitter.com/jternoski/status/1220233388365434881
Jay's statement: "the income tax was created during prohibition"

Maine Prohibition: 1851-56
The Rum Riots: 1855
The Civil War Income Tax: 1861
The 16th Amendment Income Tax: 1913
Prohibition: 1920-33

Even his follow-up explanation is wrong
I never said "far fetched," I said "random." And I respond because you show up in my mentions 😂

Happy to resume ignoring at your request 👍👍 https://twitter.com/jternoski/status/1220236708626796545
I 👏 deserve 👏 better 👏 enemies 👏 https://twitter.com/ratchet1332/status/1220234312882249728
Years before the income tax you said was created during prohibition, yes

Already mentioned that awhile ago: https://twitter.com/greg_doucette/status/1220238808781815808

Try to keep up rather than polluting separate threads with your gibberish ❤️ And try to be less wrong https://twitter.com/jternoski/status/1220239496991662080
Happy to answer as soon as you coherently explain what a quarantine has to do with citizens' voting rights and Amendment Four https://twitter.com/jternoski/status/1220240187567099904
Your rationale is more charitable than mine https://twitter.com/lastgeeksdying/status/1220239851116646402
1️⃣ That's not what you said. What you said is linked in this tweet (found in this very thread!): https://twitter.com/greg_doucette/status/1218699992082341889

2️⃣ Even if we pretend it *was* what you said, it was still wrong

3️⃣ Try to be less wrong https://twitter.com/jternoski/status/1220240764267089920
1️⃣ Also ended years before the Civil War income tax, and a half-century before the 16th Amendment

2️⃣ You were wrong, you were embarrassed, and rather than move on you compounded your wrongness

3️⃣ Try again. Be less wrong. https://twitter.com/jternoski/status/1220241722879422464
Nah. Just want you to get paid a living wage, b/c clearly you're taking a big hit on the currency conversion

Aмерикa первая! https://twitter.com/jternoski/status/1220242074529865734
It's not a definition so much as an observation, from Irving Kristol

Having been a GOP activist for most of my life pre-2016, I can attest to the observation's accuracy across at least VA and NC https://twitter.com/isaac32767/status/1220391093021237248
You've just described them as being anti-Left though 😉 Perpetual activist tinkering with the levers of government in the name of progress has long been a progressive mantra https://twitter.com/isaac32767/status/1220399576319873024
🤣🤣🤣

https://twitter.com/ncsupolysci81/status/1221820929204015105
Those biased professors in NC State's Computer Science Department! Teaching me their left-wing propaganda on ::checks notes:: the most efficient way to code sorting a linked list!
I wonder how some of y'all are able to drink water without drowning...
A bunch of globalists, it's right there in the code! https://twitter.com/helix919/status/1221831201528385544
In a 125-page ruling following a full trial, a federal court has ruled Governor DeKlantis is wrong and that the State of Florida can't condition voting rights of indigent ex-felons on the payment of fines or court costs

Today's court order is here:
https://campaignlegal.org/sites/default/files/2020-05/04916816902.pdf
The federal 11th Circuit Court of Appeals had already reached the same conclusion back in February, when it affirmed an injunction blocking Gov. DeKlantis from overriding the will of the people who ratified Amendment 4

That opinion is here:
https://campaignlegal.org/sites/default/files/2020-02/Document.pdf
Agreed, though my read of it is that they'll get to vote too because the State can't figure out how much they owe?

(which I find mind-blowing btw, as I've helped clients clean up convictions going back to the 70s and every dime owed is listed 😂) https://twitter.com/lauber_andy/status/1264687891105513473
How many MAGAts from this thread do y'all think will offer a "yeah sorry I was wrong" now that two separate courts have ruled against Governor DeKlantis three separate times?
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