The Wisconsin attorney general is asking an appeals court to ponder if laws barring felons from voting are discriminatory.

“A brief filed by the [Wisconsin] DOJ this month accuses the men of trying to do an end run around the justice system by claiming their initial convictions for bail jumping were also racist. The men claim the felon disenfranchisement law is racist because the majority of people on probation or parole in the state are African-American.”