IW: The use of prisoners for a body count for election districts in which they are imprisoned while they did not have the right to vote always reminded me of the 3/5 person count of slaves in the Constitution. Nine Republican state senators are among plaintiffs in a lawsuit filed this week challenging New York […]
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