Скачать или смотреть Sen. Cory Booker Smacks Sen. Bernie Sanders Over Voting Rights For Incarcerated Felons

Sen. Cory Booker criticized fellow Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Bernie Sanders' idea of giving incarcerated felons, including convicted terrorists, voting rights.

"Let's get this conversation back to where it is right now. Our prison population in this country has gone up 500% since 1980 alone. We locked up more people for marijuana in 2017 than all the violent crimes combined," Booker said in a PBS interview. "And so here we have a nation that takes away people's liberty and their right to vote for doing things that two of the last three presidents admitted to doing."

"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," Booker said. [Read more http://ow.ly/91c750tUD7R]

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