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22 Nev. L.J. 967 (2021-2022)
Felony Disenfranchisement and Voting Rights Restoration in the States

handle is hein.journals/nevlj22 and id is 979 raw text is: 22 NEV. L.J. 967 FELONY DISENFRANCHISEMENT AND VOTING RIGHTS RESTORATION IN THE STATES Manoj Mate* TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION............................................................................................... 968 I. THE CONSTITUTIONAL AND LEGAL CONTEXT: THE ENTRENCHMENT OF FELONY DISENFRANCHISEMENT ........................ 973 A. The Reconstruction Amendments, Federalism, and State Oppression of Voting Rights ....................................................... 973 B. Legal Terrain: The Post-Ramirez Context.................................. 975 C. The Next Generation of Felony Disenfranchisement Restrictions ................................................................................. 978 II. PATHWAYS FOR RESTORING VOTING RIGHTS IN THE STATES: RECENT TRENDS................................................................................. 979 A. The Political Path ....................................................................... 980 1. State Legislation ................................................................... 982 2. Executive Orders................................................................... 986 3. State Constitutional Amendment........................................... 988 B. The Legal Path............................................................................ 989 1. Recent Federal Court Decisions........................................... 990 2. Recent State Court Litigation................................................ 996 C. Critiquing Federal Court Deference to State Felony Disenfranchisement Policies....................................................... 998 III. THE PATH FORWARD: NEAR-TERM AND LONG-TERM STRATEGIES FOR VOTING RIGHTS RESTORATION ................................................... 999 A. Assessing the Political Terrain for Voting Restoration at the State Level................................................................................... 999 B. Near Term Approaches: Focusing on Administrative Processes and Structural Governance...................................... 1000 C. Longer Term Strategies............................................................. 1002 CONCLUSION................................................................................................. 1003 * Associate Professor of Law and Faculty Director, Racial Justice Initiative, DePaul Univer- sity College of Law. For excellent research assistance, I thank Mitchell Hajnal. Thank you to the editors of the Nevada Law Journal for their excellent work and editing of the Article. 967