The NJ Institute for Social Justice has filed an amicus brief in the Rutgers Law School International Human rights Clinic's petition to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights challenging U.S. for widespread disenfranchisement of persons convicted of crime. The brief argues that the US is in violation of international human rights law by permitting the disenfranchisement of nearly 5.2 million US citizens.
The lead point is:
LAWS THAT DISENFRANCHISE CITIZENS WITH FELONY CONVICTIONS IN THE UNITED STATES ARE HISTORICALLY BASED ON RACIAL DISCRIMINATION AGAINST BLACK AMERICANS...
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