Word: crimed
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...were so many people deprived of voting rights? Apart from high crime rates, the reason is that felony disenfranchisement laws take away the vote for a wide variety of offenses. For an offender to lose the vote, the report states, "the crime need not have any connection to electoral processes, nor need it be classified as notably serious. Shoplifting or possession of a modest amount of marijuana could suffice...
Some offenders have attempted to correct these discrepancies in the courts. However, despite their flaws, felony disenfranchisement laws are explicitly allowed under the United States Constitution. The 14th Amendment acknowledges the ability of states to restrict their suffrage "for participation in rebellion, or other crime," and the Supreme Court ruled in 1974 that "this language was intended by Congress to mean what it says." Only one exception has been found, namely disenfranchisement for a specifically racist purpose. However, felony disenfranchisement laws are ostensibly race-neutral, and unless the racial bias is explicit, the courts will not intervene...
...simple human mistakes of a sexual nature first detailed in Vanity Fair in September 1995. Otherwise, Gingrich went full bore, vowing at one point to "never again, as long as I am Speaker, make a speech without commenting" on the Monica mess and to start calling a crime a crime. Gingrich lieutenant majority whip Tom DeLay set up a Monica war room, the first place for the press to call to confirm when Monica delivered that fateful piece of pizza to the Oval Office or the date the fed-up Secret Service agent kept her waiting at the gate...
...home from school at the age of eight, I was beaten by a grown man because I was Jewish. At 17, at Auschwitz, I witnessed the hate crime of the century against Jews, Gypsies, gays and others. Fifty-five years later, we have ill-disguised hatred, instigated by the religious right as well as by some of our elected representatives. How many more innocent gays and lesbians will be attacked, as was Shepard? Sign me Jewish, gay and proud of it. GERALD B. ROSENSTEIN San Francisco...
...restricted the size of signage b) kept statewide candidates who accepted PAC money from campaigning in town c) punished women for publicly displaying their breasts d) made it a hate crime to insult Canadians...