Feddit.onlineLouisiana GOP races to eliminate an elected office won by an exonerated man
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A man imprisoned for nearly 30 years before being exonerated won a landmark election in New Orleans promising to fix a judicial system that failed him. Now, Louisiana’s Gov. Jeff Landry and the GOP-controlled Legislature are racing to eliminate his job before he can be sworn in.
Calvin Duncan won 68% of the vote last November to become the Orleans Parish clerk of criminal court after running on a platform to reformthe justice system based on his own experience fighting to access court records while in maximum security prison.
Duncan rebuilt his life, in part by running for and winning the clerk’s office. But Louisiana Senate Republicans on Wednesday voted to scrap Duncan’s new job as part of a broader GOP effort to streamline the judiciary in New Orleans, a Democratic hub with a predominantly Black electorate. The state Legislature is largely Republican and white, and the deeply red state has been leading efforts to gut the Voting Rights Act.
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Blatant corruption and racism. Louisiana republicans are up there in the top 10 worst republicans. That’s pretty bad.
Did you know that Louisiana is the anus of the usa?
TN is on that list. FL, MS, idk it is hotly contested they are all awful.
“Republicans say it isn’t personal”
Reading the article, this is deeply personal. Like a bespoke law designed exclusively for Calvin Duncan.
They could call it the Calvin Duncan Act maybe.
This is bad guys, the whole reason 1/3 of Americans are charged with crimes is to disenfranchise them. If these minorities… Oops, I mean criminals get exonerated and interfere with the genocide… Oops I mean the law it could bring the whole White Nationalist System down!
Felon disenfranchisement should be unconstitutional/prevented with an amendment. The government should not have the capability of removing people’s ability to vote at all for any reason.