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48 Mitchell Hamline L. Rev. [i] (2022)

handle is hein.journals/wmitch48 and id is 1 raw text is: FELON DISENFRANCHISEMENT: WHAT FEDERAL COURTS GOT WRONG AND HOW STATE COURTS CAN ADDRESS IT Lindsay Dreyer4 I. INTRO D U CT IO N ........................................................................1 II. HISTORY OF DISENFRANCHISEMENT..................................2 A . E urop ean R oots ................................................................2 B. Pre-Civil W ar Am erica .....................................................3 C Post-Civil W ar................................................................ 4 III. DISENFRANCHISEMENT TODAY .....................................7 A. Modern Felon Disenfranchisement..................................7 B. Felon Disenfranchisement inm Minesota..........................8 IV. SCHROEDER V. MINNESOTA SECRETARY OF STATE...........8 A. Facts and Procedural Posture ........................................9 B . The Court O rder............................................................10 V . A N A LY SIS ............................................................................12 A. The Court's Rehance on the Federal Standard ..............12 B. The Power ofD issent.....................................................14 C The Expansion of the Word Felony and the Court's Selective Historical Analysis ........................................18 D. The Court's Narrow Definition of Fundamental Right..20 E. International Law as a Comparison...........................23 F Under Strict Scrutiny, Minn. Stat. § 609.165 Violates Minnesota's Equal Protection Clause .............................26 G. Minnesota Statutes Section 609.165 Fails a Rational Basis R eview ........................................................................ 29 V I. C ONCLUSION .................................................................. 34

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