9th Circuit will re-open WA felon voting case
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has agreed to a Sept. 21 re-hearing of a challenge of Washington’s longstanding ban on voting by felons. The nationally prominent case could be decided by the appeals judges or end up in the U.S. Supreme Court to set a nationwide policy. An 11-judge panel will re-hear the case that three of its own judges had decided in favor of the inmates earlier this year. That much-criticized ruling held that Washington violates the federal…