Resource: Johnson v. Bush
By: Brennan Center for Justice
November 14, 2005
Brennan Center for Justice
The Center, representing more than 600,000 Florida citizens in a class action suit, challenged Florida’s permanent disenfranchisement of people with felony convictions. Together with co-counsel, the Center argued that, because of its discriminatory intent and effect, Florida’s voting ban violated both the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/court-cases/johnson-v-bush