Virginia Passes Stricter Voter ID Law Than Voter ID Law They Passed Last Year

by Brentin Mock on March 26 2013, 2:31PM

The law will have to be approved by the Department of Justice or U.S. District Court.

Topics: /NOW Blog, Politics

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Virginia Legislators Approve Voter ID Law, May Kill Chances for Federal Bailout

by Brentin Mock on February 22 2013, 1:42PM

Will Virginia be the latest case for proving why the Voting Rights Act is still needed?

Topics: Voting Rights 2012, /NOW Blog

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Virginia Republicans’ Bizarre Notion of ‘Fair’ Voting

by Brentin Mock on January 30 2013, 9:07AM

If the state GOP’s effort to reconfigure electoral college tallying would have been law last year, hundreds of thousands of black voters would have waited hours in line for nothing.

Topics: Voting Rights 2012, Politics

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Why Were There Long Voting Lines in 2012? Virginia Holds Answers

by Brentin Mock on January 15 2013, 9:42AM

A congressional hearing seeks to find out what caused so much turmoil on Election Day.

Topics: Voting Rights 2012, Politics

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Virginia Governor Says Restore Voting Rights for Nonviolent Felon Offenders

by Brentin Mock on January 10 2013, 11:38AM

Gov. Bob McDonnell throws support behind two GOP-sponsored bills to automatically restore some felons’ rights.

Topics: Voting Rights 2012, /NOW Blog, Politics

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A Constitutional Case Against Felony Disenfranchisement Laws

by Brentin Mock on December 14 2012, 10:12AM

Obama’s recent court victory on early voting may have carved a legal path for fighting down felony disenfranchisement laws.

Topics: 2012 Election, Voting Rights 2012, Politics

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This Week’s Victories in Voting Rights

by Aura Bogado on September 14 2012, 11:29AM

The push back against voter suppression has resulted in some major victories this week.

Topics: Voting Rights 2012, Politics

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Virginia Teacher Who Asked Black Student to Read Poem in ‘Blacker’ Voice Suspended

by Jorge Rivas on March 21 2012, 4:29PM

Fairfax County, Virginia school administrators have placed a school teacher on paid administrative leave she asked only black student in class to read a poem in a “blacker” style.

Topics: /NOW Blog, Schools & Youth

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The Next Stop for Personhood Mania

by Akiba Solomon on November 22 2011, 2:45PM

Picking up the pieces after their Mississippi failure, zygote rights activists are taking their sideshow to Virginia

Topics: Akiba Solomon

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Virginia May Block Undocumented Immigrants from College

by Julianne Hing on January 14 2011, 11:50AM

State Delegate Christopher Peace is at it again.

Topics: Immigration, Schools & Youth

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Virginia Attorney General Issues His Own SB 1070

by Seth Freed Wessler on August 4 2010, 9:30AM

It’s the latest and loudest push by a well-established anti-immigrant movement in the state.

Topics: Immigration

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