Abigail M. Hinchcliff

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The “Other” Side of Richardson v. Ramirez: A Textual Challenge to Felon Disenfranchisement

121 Yale L.J. 194 (2011). Section 2 of the Fourteenth Amendment allows states to disenfranchise citizens on account of “rebellion, or other crime” without reducing the size of the state’s delegation in the House of Representatives. In its 1974 decision in Richardson v. Ramirez, the Supreme Court held that this language in the Fourteenth Amendment (the so-called Penalty Clause) provides...