Tim Kaine vice presidential campaign, 2016/Civil liberties
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Kaine on civil liberties
- Speaking at the National Urban League conference in Baltimore, Maryland, in August 2016, Tim Kaine praised courts for “striking down in a number of states arbitrary restrictions that are trying to hold people back from voting.”[1]
- On the campaign trail in Greensboro, North Carolina, Kaine celebrated the federal appeals court ruling that struck down the state's voter ID law. The court found that the voting restrictions were enacted by North Carolina’s Republican-led legislature in 2013 with discriminatory intent. Discussing the ruling, Kaine said, “100,000 people who were supposed to be able to participate, who were shunted aside, will now get to come back in and participate.” Kaine also told the crowd in North Carolina, “We got to show everybody we know our vote matters and vote for Hillary Clinton. OK?”[1][2]
Marijuana
- On March 18, 2016, Kaine visited Midlothian, Virginia, and participated in a forum hosted by the Cosby High School politics club where he was asked about decriminalizing marijuana. He responded by saying that although he “support[s] drastic changes in sentencing laws…[he] wouldn’t vote for a law at the federal or state level that would decriminalize marijuana.” He told the high school forum that he thought the country should see how marijuana legalization goes in Colorado and other states that have legalized marijuana before rendering a decision.[3]
- In an interview with WMRA in Charlottesville, Virginia, on January 23, 2014, Kaine was asked about legalizing marijuana. "I’ve never been a legalization fan,” he said. “Just for a whole series of both health and sort of crime-related reasons, I think it would not be a good idea.” On the issue of sentencing reform, Kaine said, “I think, often, for sentences for marijuana and marijuana usage, I think some sentences are too strict.” [4]
- Read what the 2016 presidential candidates and other vice presidential candidates said about civil liberties.
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Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Politico, "Kaine goes on attack over voting rights," August 11, 2016
- ↑ The Washington Post, "Appeals court strikes down North Carolina’s voter-ID law," July 29, 2016
- ↑ The Bolt, "Tim Kaine Forum," April 15, 2016
- ↑ WMRA, "Senator Tim Kaine on the McDonnells, Iran, Medicaid Expansion, and More," January 23, 2016
- ↑ Democratic Party, "The 2016 Democratic Party Platform," accessed August 23, 2016
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
