{"id":177825,"date":"2019-05-30T18:38:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-30T23:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/05\/30\/meanwhile-in-nevada\/"},"modified":"2019-05-30T18:38:00","modified_gmt":"2019-05-30T23:38:00","slug":"meanwhile-in-nevada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/05\/30\/meanwhile-in-nevada\/","title":{"rendered":"Meanwhile, in Nevada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Felon reanfranchisement <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rgj.com\/story\/news\/2019\/05\/30\/nevada-governor-signs-bills-felon-voting-sealing-pot-convictions\/1287729001\/\">is now the law in the Silver State<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Nevada\u2019s governor has signed criminal justice reform bills that restore voting rights to convicted felons and streamlines the process for sealing low-level marijuana convictions.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Democratic Gov. Steve Sisolak signed both the measures Wednesday as the legislative session continues on in its final days.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The voting rights legislation gives felony offenders the right to vote after being released from prison, instead of granting certain felons the right to vote two years after being released.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Sisolak says some 77,000 state residents will have their voting rights restored due to the legislation.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Felon disenfranchisement has always been an explicitly racist enterprise, and it needs to end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Felon reanfranchisement is now the law in the Silver State: Nevada\u2019s governor has signed criminal justice reform bills that restore voting rights to convicted felons and streamlines the process for sealing low-level marijuana convictions.Democratic Gov. Steve Sisolak signed both the measures Wednesday as the legislative session continues on in its final days.The voting rights legislation &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[413,443,407,449,374],"class_list":["post-177825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-civil-rights","tag-corrections","tag-justice","tag-legislation","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177825"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177825\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}