Holder: State Laws That Bar Felons From Voting Are ‘Too Unjust to Tolerate’

Holder: State Laws That Bar Felons From Voting Are ‘Too Unjust to Tolerate’
Three days after announcing that the U.S. Justice Department will recognize same-sex marriages in all legal matters…Attorney General Eric Holder took a swipe at states that don’t allow felons to vote. “In many states, felony disenfranchisement laws are still on the books…not only too significant to ignore — it is also too unjust to tolerate,” Holder told a criminal justice forum…