Brooks: ‘The Right Thing To Do’ for McAuliffe to Give Voting Rights Back to Ex-Felons

BROOKS: "Yes, I would love to see the ideological breakdown of ex-felons. But I think it’s the right thing to do. I have never quite understood. You know, you’re assigned a cost you have to pay for committing a crime or even a felony. You do your time, you do your parole, you do your probation, you should be able to rejoin society in full measure. One of the weird things in our whole criminal just system is, we have got people who are 50, and 60, well past what they call criminal menopause, and they’re perfectly upstanding citizens, and they’re not the person they were at 19, and yet we continue to punish them. And whether they’re in jail, we should be more lenient on them. If they’re out, we should make them full citizens."