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• W2256969868 abstract "Connecticut, like only 15 other states, lacks any laws that would disqualify corrupt politicians from holding office beyond the expiration of their criminal sentences. So, while Joe Ganim cannot walk into a local sports outfitter and purchase a firearm, he is entirely within his rights to serve as mayor of the largest city in Connecticut.This Note argues, in part, that public office should be treated — like a firearm — as a potentially dangerous instrument. Once a person uses public office to effect harm, state law should bar their future possession of the criminal instrument in the same way that persons convicted of gun-violence offenses — or, for that matter, any felony at all — are barred from possessing the instrument of their crime. Each instrument inflicts injury. Those injuries are decidedly different, but the harm suffered by cities and states stigmatized by public corruption should be prevented in the same way states seek to prevent physical violence inflicted by firearms: by prohibiting those who have used office for illicit purposes from possessing it in the future.This is not to say gun violence and political corruption pose equivalent dangers. They certainly do not. The limitation on eligibility for office proposed in this Note reflects that: only that small class of persons previously convicted of a public corruption offense while in office should be prohibited from again holding office. Compare this with the approach to felon-in-possession limitations on firearms — a more substantial risk is accordingly addressed more broadly. One need not commit an offense involving a gun or even physical violence in order to lose their Second Amendment right to bear arms. Under the approach advocated by this Note, one would only lose their ability to hold office upon conviction of exactly those offenses the prohibition aims to prevent. The basic point being that if we are convinced a person can no longer be trusted with a gun by virtue of a felony conviction entirely unrelated to the use of a firearm, why do we not exercise such caution with respect to the indispensable instrument of the corrupt politician’s offense: public office?Some states do. Twenty-five provide for candidate disenfranchisement in cases of public corruption offenses. In the last decade, three states — California, Michigan, and Tennessee — created laws barring corrupt politicians from holding office in response to circumstances similar to those in Connecticut following the Ganim conviction and that of former Governor John Rowland. Additionally, among the sixteen states that do not disqualify politicians convicted of crimes related to their office, thirteen of them do disqualify impeached officials from again holding office — a loophole in these states’ office-eligibility frameworks that explains why ex-Governor Rowland, now twice-convicted of offenses related either to corruption of office or the electoral system, will nonetheless be eligible to hold office upon the conclusion of his current sentence.This Note takes the position that Connecticut should join the plurality of states in enacting legislation or amending its Constitution so as to disqualify persons convicted of public-corruption offenses from holding office. This Note is not concerned with voter disenfranchisement of such persons, though the construction of this and many states’ candidate-eligibility laws necessitates some discussion of their various approaches to that disqualification as well. Additionally, this Note does not take the position that all felons ought to lose their privilege to hold office. Rather, the best approach is the particularized one. This approach would require that corrupt politicians serve their time and any attendant period of parole and/or probation, that the state return such persons’ voting rights to them thereafter but permanently bar them from holding office. Fool me once, more or less." @default.
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• W2256969868 title "Guns and Governance: Why Limitations on Felons’ Right to Bear Arms Should Inform Analogous Limitations on Corrupt Politicians’ Eligibility for Office" @default.
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