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Johnson v. Haslam

Certiorari Denied

Petition for certiorari denied on May 23, 2011.

Docket No.10-1149
Op. Below6th Circuit

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?

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