Gov. Terry McAuliffe’s plan to restore the felon vote for Hillary in Virginia

Gov. Terry McAuliffe’s plan to restore the felon vote for Hillary in Virginia

The Clinton campaign suffered a serious blow on Friday when the Virginian Supreme Court struck down Gov. Terry McAuliffe’s blanket reinstatement of voting rights for convicted felons who have served their time. (Opinion here)

WaPo reported:

Gov. Terry McAuliffe’s decision to restore voting rights to more than 200,000 felons violates Virginia’s constitution, the state Supreme Court ruled Friday, dealing a major blow to the Democratic governor with implications for the November presidential race in the crucial swing state.

In a 4-to-3 decision, the court ruled that McAuliffe overstepped his clemency powers by issuing a sweeping order in April restoring rights to all ex-offenders who are no longer incarcerated or on probation or parole.

The court agreed with state Republicans who challenged McAuliffe’s order, arguing that the governor can only restore voting rights on a case-by-case basis and not en masse.

Everyone, even Democrats, assume that ex-cons will vote Democrat.

Will Tim Kaine Veep pick be enough for Hillary to overcome loss of felon vote in VA? https://t.co/7QPUipEnSQ

— Legal Insurrection (@LegInsurrection) July 23, 2016

But Clinton crony McAuliffe has a plan. Rather than a blanket restoration, he’s sign each one individually.

Think Progress, which obviously wants whatever helps Democrats, reports:

Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D) is taking action to restore the voting rights of thousands of ex-offenders in the state after a court decision Friday put them in jeopardy. He’s getting around the Virginia Supreme Court’s ruling against him by signing 200,000 individual clemency grants to the state’s ex-offenders to ensure their right to vote in November.

Hillary's puppet McAullife circumvents Supreme Court to sign up felons to vote in Virginia https://t.co/WK9PehPvdR

— Mark R. Levin (@marklevinshow) July 23, 2016

McAuliffe’s press release states, in part:

“The men and women whose voting rights were restored by my executive action should not be alarmed. I will expeditiously sign nearly 13,000 individual orders to restore the fundamental rights of the citizens who have had their rights restored and registered to vote. And I will continue to sign orders until I have completed restoration for all 200,000 Virginians.

I don’t see how robo-signing tens of thousands of clemency requests overcomes the court decision. It’s just a blanket restoration by other means. I would expect that the Court would put a halt to such a process, but don’t put anything past McAuliffe at least to try.

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