A judge on Tuesday ordered Gov. Rick Scott and the cabinet to dismantle Florida’s “fatally flawed” system of arbitrarily restoring voting rights to people with

In 2016, 53% of early weekend voters were people of color, compared to 35% of the electorate overall.

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Louisianans who are currently on probation or parole have the right to vote under our state constitution. As professors of constitutional law, we urge the

This history—the ardent and persistent embrace by Southern racists of the criminal justice system as a means of racial domination—gives me a somewhat jaundiced view of state laws barring convicted felons from voting. They are a heritage of the old slave-power mindset, and have no business marring politics in a 21st century democracy. By and large, as my grandmother used to say, “they make me tired.”