Word: guinier
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...keynote address, Guinier condemned state laws that disenfranchise felons...
Speaking at Boston’s annual Martin Luther King Jr. Breakfast on Monday, Bennett Boskey Professor of Law Lani Guinier called for a constitutional amendment guaranteeing all United States citizens, including convicted felons, the right to vote...
...Guinier, who specializes in voting rights law and teaches at Harvard Law School (HLS), joined other prominent political and religious leaders from Massachusetts to commemorate King and to examine present challenges to equality. Sen. John F. Kerry, D-Mass., also addressed the crowd of nearly 2,000, offering strong remarks about President Bush and the 2004 election. Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney and Boston Mayor Thomas Menino also spoke at the event, which was held at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center...
...correct for these discrepancies, Guinier endorsed a constitutional amendment to provide a federally granted right to vote to all U.S. citizens. Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr., D.-Ill., is presently advocating such an amendment in the House of Representatives...
...can’t have a democracy with two parties and one is about disenfranchisement,” Guinier said, referring to reports of Republican suppression of minority votes...