Eagan, Minn – Americans are split on whether convicted felons should be allowed to vote, according to a new survey by FindLaw.com, the most popular legal information website. Thirty-three percent of Americans feel felons should be allowed to vote, according to the FindLaw survey. Forty-two percent say felons should not be allowed to vote. And […]
Florida Governor Rick Scott returns State to Jim Crow Era on Civil Rights Restoration for ex-felons
By Chuck Hobbs, Esquire – There is an old cliché that “those who fail to understand history are doomed to repeat it.” This week, Governor Rick Scott, Attorney General Pam Bondi, Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam and CFO Jeff Atwater, who collectively comprise the state’s Executive Clemency Board, repeated history by reversing a 2007 Order from […]