I Am a Felon, I Know You Are, and Most of Our Colleagues Are Not.

Cato: If the average person engages in conduct, that is trivial, that is decided by a state legislature to be a felony, you've essentially taken away an enumerated right from every American. He says it's even worse than that because laws are generally not supposed to be arbitrary. Cato: The distinction between those of us who are convicted felons and those of us Who have not been convicted is increasingly arbitrary.