Constitutional challenge to Tennessee’s voter re-franchisement statute by Tennessee residents and convicted felons

Johnson v. Bredesen, 08-6377, concerned a challenge to the district court’s grant of defendants’ motion for judgment on the pleadings, in a suit filed by Tennessee residents and convicted felons, claiming that the Tennessee’s voter re-franchisement statute, which conditions restoration of plaintiffs’ voting rights on payment of court-ordered victim restitution and child support obligations, violates the Equal Protection Clause of the U.S. Constitution, the Twenty Fourth Amendment, and the Ex Post Facto and Privileges or Immunities Clauses of the U.S. and Tennessee Constitution.

 

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  • Read the Sixth Circuit’s Full Decision in Johnson v. Bredesen, 08-6377

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