Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) has some people confused after he sidestepped a question about whether those currently in jail should be disenfranchised from voting.
Specifically, he was asked whether or not he agreed with Sanders. Booker, instead of answering the question outright, called the current framing of the debate “frustrating.”
“So if Bernie Sanders wants to get involved in a conversation about whether Dylann Roof and the marathon bomber should have the right to vote, my focus is liberating black and brown people and low-income people from prison, because we have a system in America, as Bryan Stevenson says, that treats you better if you’re rich and guilty than if you’re poor and innocent,” he told the news outlet. “My focus is tearing down the system of mass incarceration, so that we don’t even have to have the debate about people’s voting rights, because they’re not going to prison in the first place. People that don’t belong there are there. And I’m going to stop that as president.”
Booker is correct that the justice system in the United States has overwhelmingly impacted people of color. In fact, he’s made criminal justice reform a major theme of his campaign.
However, a number of people online flagged that the New Jersey lawmaker dodged the question about incarcerated citizens having the right to vote–and pointed out that the original question, and Booker’s response, are two issues that are worthy of debate and discussion.
1. You can have more than one conversation at once. Bernie has proved this by cosponsoring Booker's CJ legislation while talking about voting rights for prisoners.
2. Giving back voting rights to prisoners helps liberate black & brown & low income people from prison. https://t.co/S5N3Zmndyg
— NY For Sanders #Bernie2020 (@NYforSanders) April 30, 2019
The question, @corybooker, is not whether a person who committed a crime (no matter the crime) deserves the right to vote — the question is whether a government should ever be given the power to choose its voters in the first place. https://t.co/COOngwTvAT
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