• moonwalker@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I would like to think the only crime that would prevent a citizen from voting is if that citizen is convicted of voter fraud.

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      1 year ago

      Making the lives of average citizens, and especially minorities, harder on the day-to-day is a clear legitimate purpose.

  • The dogspaw @midwest.social
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    1 year ago

    There is already a new student debt relief program that will be more widely available so this might actually be a good thing for debt relief

    • FizzlePopBerryTwist@lemmy.worldOP
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      1 year ago

      The US supreme court turned away a case on Friday challenging Mississippi’s rules around voting rights for people with felony convictions, leaving intact a policy implemented more than a century ago with the explicit goal of preventing Black people from voting. This is not an article on debt relief. That’s an entirely other subject of the Supreme Court’s recent meddling.