Captain Jaye

I must give you credit. You troll exceedingly well. Seriously, it takes some finesse to keep up a completely illogical position backed by nothing for - my word - 33 pages. The last several pages are mainly just people asking you for the simplest thing in the world: A reference to piece of the bill y...

*wanders in* If the crux of argumentation is hinged on the idea that humanity is capable of terrible things and we are opening doors, the very least the detractors of the bill can agree upon is that humanity has a sick and twisted inclination, no? That being the case, I fail to see how a syste...

Oh, Holder is totally being partisan. His motivations here are super clear. From a [i]non[/i]-partisan standpoint though, re-enfranchisement has some policy merit. Speaking of getting the right to vote back, there are some states who enfranchise post release, but that's only part of the story. A...

Let's say I can prove a link between public safety increasing and giving them their right to vote back. (I posted about that a page back.) That's the positive policy benefit if there is one, the claims of racism are just ridiculous. What can you give me to convince me that enfranchising them isn't t...

Holder *did* mention it reducing crime as well, but yes, that was absolutely peripheral in his stance. And honestly, Holder is full of it. I guess he's trying to in a very circumscribed manner draw a link between racism in sentencing and therefore a racist effect by disenfranchisement laws. There si...

While causality is obviously hard to prove, there is actually a lot more of a link here than you might think. [link=(http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1919617)]Here's a study, if you're into empirical data[/link] Here's the part of interest: [quote]“We next considered wheth...

That was a slightly overreactive analogy don't you think? Dude is a beast. Playing in the Superbowl. ...