Johnson v. Haslam

Issue: (1) Whether and to what extent a state may place conditions – such as the payment of restitution or child support – on the restoration of voting rights to people with felony convictions; (2) whether the Twenty-Fourth Amendment, which prohibits states from denying the right to vote based on failure to pay a “poll tax or other tax,” applies to state laws establishing the payment of restitution and child support as a voter qualification; and (3) whether the Sixth Circuit properly held that the Tennessee Constitution's Ex Post Facto Clause is not violated by the retroactive application of Tennessee laws that expand a convicted person's disenfranchisement period?

Briefs and Documents

Certiorari-stage documents

• Opinion below (6th Circuit)
• Petition for certiorari
• Brief in opposition
• Petitioners' reply