Legal Opinion
Simmons v. Galvin
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided July 31, 2009No. 08-1569PublishedCited by 73 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LYNCH, Chief Judge.
By nearly a two-to-one margin in the year 2000, Massachusetts voters passed Article 120, which amended the state constitution to disqualify currently incarcerated felons from voting in certain elections. Shortly thereafter, the state legislature extended this disqualification by statute, Chapter 150, to prevent inmates from voting in all Massachusetts elections.
In 2001, several incarcerated felons in state custody, challenged these provisions (collectively “Article 120”) by suing the Secretary of the Commonwealth in federal court. This appeal concerns two of their claims:…
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