In her opinion she makes no mention of how such "virtuous citizen" restrictions were used after the Civil War and the passage of the Reconstruction Amendments to deny African Americans the right to vote.
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In a recent dissent, Amy Coney Barrett wrote that the right to vote and serve on juries belonged "only to virtuous citizens." Her opinion also suggests that all civic rights are subject to virtue-based exceptions.
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At a time when the right to vote is under extreme attack, we should be critical of those who endorse outdated notions rooted in white supremacy as a justification for denying millions of Americans the right to vote.
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The full opinion (which concerns whether someone convicted of a felony can prohibited from owning a firearm), as well as Judge Barrett's dissent and her tangent regarding the right to vote can be found here: http://cdn.cnn.com/cnn/2020/images/09/21/rssexec.pdf …
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By whose virtues?
Kiitos. Käytämme tätä aikajanasi parantamiseen. KumoaKumoa
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What? I thought she was an institutionalist? Where is that in the Constitution? WTH is she to decide what's virtuous? She accepted a Supreme Court nomination from the least virtuous POTUS in modern times.
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She's never been an instirutionalist. She's claimed to be an "originalist" but that's always been a scam position as well that's a cover for the US having been a Christian nation and other conservative shenanigans.
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Right. A “virtuous” RC must attend mass every Sunday and may only take communion if they are in a “state of grace”. This means, like an abuelita, that you have confession before EVERY communion if you are not living according to the Popes pipeline to God. She’s not.
#HeathenKiitos. Käytämme tätä aikajanasi parantamiseen. KumoaKumoa
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Wait. So the right to vote is subject to some as-yet-undefined test of virtue but the right to own a gun is not. She’s just as hypocritical as her hero Scalia who famously flip-flopped constantly.
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“Textualist” gins up spurious history of “virtue” pre-1791 (!) for guns
, against voting 
. Cherry-picking BS, depending not on legal precedent but contemporaneous anecdote
. 3/5 of a person next.
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Weird how that's not in, you know, THE CONSTITUTION. No nominee until after the inauguration.
#NoNomUntilJanKiitos. Käytämme tätä aikajanasi parantamiseen. KumoaKumoa
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