Christopher M. Re
Article
Voting and Vice: Criminal Disenfranchisement and the Reconstruction Amendments
121 Yale L.J. 1584 (2012).
The Reconstruction Amendments are justly celebrated for transforming millions
of recent slaves into voting citizens. Yet this legacy of egalitarian enfranchisement had a flip side.
In arguing that voting laws should not discriminate on the basis of morally insignificant statu…