The Sentencing Project





The Sentencing Project:


"State Supreme Court to hear felony disenfranchisement challenge
The Iowa Supreme Court recently agreed to hear a challenge to the state’s strict disenfranchisement laws, which impose a lifetime ban on voting for anyone convicted of a felony. The lawsuit seeks to clarify language in the state’s constitution, which bans voting for those convicted of an “infamous crime.” Until recently, the state had considered all felonies to be infamous crimes, but a 2014 Iowa Supreme Court ruling questioned that interpretation."




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