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A person convicted of a felony loses the ability to vote if the felony involves moral turpitude. Prior to 2017, the state Attorney General and courts have decided this for individual crimes; however, in 2017, moral turpitude was defined by House Bill 282 of 2017, signed into law by Kay Ivey on May 24, to constitute 47 specific offenses. [ 88 ]
Could Trump become president after being convicted of a crime? Yes. There's nothing in the Constitution or federal law that prevents a felon from holding the nation's highest office.
CNN asked convicted felons about their struggles, their hopes and how they feel about President-elect Donald Trump, who will return to the White House after being convicted of 34 felony charges.
It would not be unprecedented for a politician to serve in office as a convicted felon. Former Alaska Republican Sen. Ted Stevens, for example, was found guilty of seven felony charges of making ...
Richardson v. Ramirez, 418 U.S. 24 (1974), [1] was a landmark decision by the Supreme Court of the United States in which the Court held, 6–3, that convicted felons could be barred from voting beyond their sentence and parole without violating the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution.
ACA 6 passed the California State Assembly by a vote of 54-19 on September 5, 2019, and was approved by the California State Senate by a vote of 28-9 on June 24, 2020. [6] After being put on the ballot, ACA 6 was given the ballot designation of Proposition 17. Under California law, there is a distinction between probation [7] and parole. [8]
Trump is also the first former president to be convicted of a felony and the second convicted felon to run for the presidential office. Over a century ago, Socialist candidate Eugene V. Debs ran ...
In March 2009, Bill Posey introduced legislation, H.R. 1503, in the U.S. House of Representatives to amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971. The amendment would have required candidates for the Presidency "to include with the [campaign] committee's statement of organization a copy of the candidate's birth certificate" plus other supporting documentation. [8]