Perez-Leal v. United States

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• finding that “[flelon disenfranchisement laws have a long history in the United States,” and that “Congress was no doubt aware of these laws when it enacted the VRA in 1965 and amended it in 1982, yet gave no indication that felon disenfranchisement was in any way suspect”
• “Out-of-circuit cases are not binding on this Court and therefore do not constitute 14 ‘controlling authority.’”
• “Felon disenfranchisement laws have a long history in the United States ... predating] the Jim Crow era and, with a few notable exceptions, have not been adopted based on racial considerations,” (citations omitted)

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