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The Minnesota Court of Appeals this week became the second court in two years to reject a lawsuit seeking to restore voting rights to Minnesotans who are on felony probation sentences.
The suit was first filed against Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon in 2019 by the American Civil Liberties Union of Minnesota on behalf of four Minnesotans serving long felony probation terms. It placed Simon, a vocal proponent of restoring voting rights to all non-incarcerated felons, in the awkward position of defending the constitutionality of a law he wants changed.
But in an interview Tuesday, Simon said that the Legislature, not the courts, should be the venue for restoring such rights.
“As a person, as an advocate, I strongly favor restoring the right to vote to those who have left prison behind,” Simon said. “I’ve never made any secret of that, and I think Minnesota is happily moving in that direction.”
David McKinney, a staff attorney for the ACLU in Minnesota, said Tuesday that the ACLU would “keep fighting” and appeal this week’s ruling to the Minnesota Supreme Court.
“Felony disenfranchisement is one of the enduring and systemic racial disparities in our criminal justice system,” said McKinney. “Depriving people of their right to […]
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