Philip Shucet
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The centuries-old question of Rights on Virginia’s ballot (opens the original)
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This November, Virginia voters will decide whether two basic rights, one long exercised and one still threatened, deserve protection beyond the reach of politics and the courts. The tension over identifying and securing foundational rights is not new, reaching back to the nation’s founding and the framing of the Constitution. Which liberties are so fundamental that they should be put out of reach of shifting political majorities and left to the people to decide? Thefirst ballot question asks whe
Virginia’s endless war - Voting rights (opens the original)
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More than a quarter of a million Virginian adults last year could not vote for a specific reason: they had been previously convicted of a felony, even though they had served their sentences. Over half of those disenfranchised were otherwise-eligible Black voters. Virginia is one of only three states where felons are permanently stripped of voting rights unless the governor decides to restore them. But in January, a federal judge ruled that Virginia had been illegally disenfranchising voters for
Guns, militias and a long-running Virginia debate (opens the original)
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Virginia lawmakers this year set out to bar out-of-state National Guard troops from entering the Commonwealth without the governor's consent, a move to push back on President Trump’s federalization of the Guard in other states. Lawmakers ultimately established a study group, tasked with recommending how the state should respond if it happens. Lawmakers also debated the limits of an armed citizenry, banning assault firearms and high-capacity magazines, effective July 1. The ban has barely functio
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