'When you break the law, you temporarily forfeit your right' to vote (VIDEO)

Prison inmates should not have the right to vote, despite 2020 Democrat presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders saying so, because “when you break the law, you temporarily forfeit” certain rights. 

In light of Sanders’ position on inmates voting while in prison, Campus Reform Media Director Cabot Phillips went to Catholic University of America to ask students if they agree with the democratic socialist senator from Vermont. Reactions were mixed, but some students did agree with Sanders that even when people break the law, they should still be entitled to a vote. Those reactions didn’t come as any surprise to Phillips, who has traveled to dozens of college campuses across the country and spoken with hundreds of students. 

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”In this day and age where we’ve convinced young people, especially, that if a law makes you feel uncomfortable then it’s not compassionate and we shouldn’t have it at all and when you consistently break down this concept of rule of law then you’re going to see people willing to do this,” Phillips said Tuesday on Fox & Friends. “The bottom line is, when you break the law, you temporarily forfeit your right to get to decide what the rest of society’s laws are and who’s making them...”

”So it’s the idea, essentially, that you should never lose any of your rights because you’re an American. That’s not how our laws work.  In America, if you break the law, then you do forfeit the right to certain laws,” Phillips said, adding that he’s seen “how teachers, professors, social media, media as a whole, have consistently broken down the idea of rule of law and the importance of strong laws in favor of political correctness, so I think that’s one reason we see this.” 

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