Re:A Wisconsin lawmaker who's paralyzed isn't allowed to par...
by bilbo0s on Monday July 29, 2019 @06:53PM
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No no no.
You want to make disabled people unfit? OK, change the Wisconsin Constitution. (Even if you did, I'm pretty sure it'd be illegal under ADA? But I might be mistaken about that?)
In any case, until you do, if the people vote in a disabled person, then that person is the lawmaker representing those people. Full stop.
We don't just get rid of someone else' lawmaker because we don't like something about him or her. The law likes something about that person, and that's the fact they were elected.
You can't tell people who they can and cannot vote for. Or rather, you can, but you have to do it explicitly in the Constitution. (At least in Wisconsin you do.)
You want to make disabled people unfit? OK, change the Wisconsin Constitution. (Even if you did, I'm pretty sure it'd be illegal under ADA? But I might be mistaken about that?)
In any case, until you do, if the people vote in a disabled person, then that person is the lawmaker representing those people. Full stop.
We don't just get rid of someone else' lawmaker because we don't like something about him or her. The law likes something about that person, and that's the fact they were elected.
You can't tell people who they can and cannot vote for. Or rather, you can, but you have to do it explicitly in the Constitution. (At least in Wisconsin you do.)