ACLU program encourages restoration of voting rights for former felons
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The ACLU of Virginia has launched a program to encourage and assist individuals with the restoration of their voting rights
Search Results for Jim Crow
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Kent Willis: New voter ID law and voting felons are unconnected but not unrelated issues
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Contrary to what has become a popular conclusion in blogs and editorials, the recent revelations about felons having illegally voted in Virginia is not evidence that the state needs the voter ID law passed this year by the General Assembly. The emerging law – which is still being tweaked by the governor and lawmakers –…
Montgomery Hall Park history preserved
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Until the Civil Rights era of the 1960s, African Americans in the Jim Crow South lived under the harsh social and legal laws that created a separate and very unequal society. That was as true for African Americans in Staunton and Augusta County as it was anywhere else. However, in 1946, thanks to the perseverance…
Chris Graham: Heritage
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I’m a Southerner. I have an accent. Hell, I work for a rasslin’ company. No question I’m Southern. Got two cousins named Junior, an uncle named Boogie, et cetera. Here’s where I go controversial being a Southerner – that crap about the Civil War being about states’ rights is, well, yeah, crap. It doesn’t take…
Governor, Republican group react to proposed state action countering DADT
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Gov. Bob McDonnell wants to see the Virginia National Guard adhere to the same rules as the Department of Defense with respect to its treatment of gays and lesbians serving in the nation’s military. McDonnell addressed the issue on his monthly call-in show on WTOP in response to questions that have arisen regarding legislation that…
Chris Graham: Repealing 50 years of advances in basic civil rights
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“The federal government,” says Bill Howell, the speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates, “has long ago usurped the power reserved to the states and the people via our Constitution.” Here we go again. Looks like we’re about to refight the Civil War. Howell is in Washington today to talk up something called the Repeal…
Critics: McDonnell move on voting rights a step back
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Edited by Chris Graham [email protected] Advocates for a streamlined process for the restoration of voting rights for ex-felons are viewing Bob McDonnell’s addition of a required essay as a step back to the Jim Crow era.
The right to vote
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Groups urge Kaine to restore voting rights for ex-felons Staff Report News Tips: [email protected] Ten Virginia civil-rights and faith-based groups have joined together to ask Gov. Tim Kaine to issue an executive order that would restore voting rights to most or all of Virginia’s 300,000 individuals who are being denied the right to vote because…
Election Day demonstrates the need for reform of Virginia’s election laws
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Column by Kent Willis We at the ACLU of Virginia have just completed our tenth year of operating an Election Day hotline for voters, and I have two observations. First, Virginia needs to do a better job of training poll workers. Second, Virginia’s election laws need to undergo a major overhaul. Both are easy to…
News from 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
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Wednesday, Aug. 12 – Remarks by President Obama at Medal of Freedom ceremony – Remarks by president and Justice Sonia Sotomayor at White House ceremony – Press briefing by Press Secretary Robert Gibbs
