ABC Touts Jailed Murderer Elected in DC, Lobbies for Prisoners to Vote

Kyle Drennen | August 2, 2021
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At the end of ABC’s This Week on Sunday, fill-in moderator Jonathan Karl gushed over “an historic election here in Washington, D.C.” of a convicted – and still incarcerated – murderer to local office in the city. The host hailed the development as “charting a new course for voting rights and racial justice” while introducing a report that radically lobbied for convicted felons still in prison to be allowed to vote.