A voter-approved Oregon gun control law violates the state constitution, a judge ruled Tuesday, continuing to block it from taking effect and casting fresh doubt over the future of the embattled measure.
The law requires people to undergo a criminal background check and complete a gun safety training course in order to obtain a permit to buy a firearm. It also bans high-capacity magazines.
The plaintiffs in the federal case, which include the Oregon Firearms Federation, have appealed the ruling to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The case could potentially go all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Yet, states are able to take away a person’s Right to vote when they go to prison.
Because there is no right to vote in the Constitution, it fell to the states.
https://www.democracydocket.com/analysis/what-does-the-constitution-say-about-the-right-to-vote/
“The original Constitution doesn’t have much to say about the right to vote. Indeed, nowhere in the text does it explicitly say that citizens have the right to vote in elections. Instead, it merely states that anyone eligible to vote for the largest house of a state’s legislature is also eligible to vote for members of the House of Representatives from that state. As a result, states were left with the power to decide who qualified to vote, leading to considerable variation in the nation’s early years. While most states initially restricted voting to property-owning or tax-paying white men, some states, like New Jersey, allowed free Black men and women of both races to vote provided they met the property or tax requirements. While states soon began expanding voting rights to more citizens, this process unfolded unevenly because it was left up to each state. New Jersey actually revoked the vote from Black men and women in 1807 and North Carolina didn’t remove a property qualification until 1856. Similarly, Wyoming granted women the right to vote in 1869, long before all women achieved it nationally. This variability continues today, which is why felons can vote in some states but not in others.”
So some states let you vote from prison, some don’t. Some restore the right on release, some don’t.
The constitution doesn’t grant many extremely important rights – including the right to vote – because it was written by slave owners who didn’t want to grant those rights to slaves and women.
If they did add those things, they would have had to explicitly state those rights were for white men only.
I assume if they had, all the pro-gun people saying “we need to arm mass shooters and idiots because its in the constitution” would also be pro-slavery and anti-suffrage too, since they staunchly oppose changing the constitution no matter how backwards and immoral it may be.
Oh, I’m not opposed to changing the Constitution, I just want people to recognize that given our CURRRENT standing in Congress, it’s a logistical impossibility.
290 votes in the House to even START changing it…