HAMMER: Bernie Sanders Is Wrong. Voting Is a Privilege That Can Be Forfeited.

So Soviet Union-honeymooning, Fidel Castro-kowtowing socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) wants to let the Boston Marathon jihadist vote from his high-security prison while he awaits his already-overdue death sentence. Specifically, as The Daily Wire’s Ryan Saavedra reported, Sanders said: “I think the right to vote is inherent to our democracy. Yes, even for terrible people, because once you start chipping away…you’re running down a slippery slope…I believe even if they are in jail, they’re paying the price to society, that should not take away their inherent American right to participate in our democracy.”

But there is one major problem for the near-octogenarian Vermont loonbag: The franchise, in our system of governance, is not properly construed as a “right” that is “inherent to our democracy.” Rather, going back to the Founding generation and continuing through the Reconstruction Amendments well into the 20th century, the franchise in our constitutional order has long been generally understood as a privilege for which the states have something closely akin to plenary power to regulate — and, indeed, limit — as they see fit.