Gay marriage equality in tax code? Bill from Mark Warner, Tim Kaine addresses issue
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Today, U.S. Senators Mark Warner and Tim Kaine introduced new legislation providing equal dignity for all legal marriages in the tax code.
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Sons of Confederate Veterans responds to effort to remove Confederate flag from specialty license plates
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Attorneys for the Virginia Division, Sons of Confederate Veterans, and the national organization of the Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV), have filed a response to the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles’ (DMV) Motion to Vacate a 2001 decision of the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia and a 2002 decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.
Ken Plum: Recent victories call for another
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I continue to celebrate the human rights victories we have had recently in marriage equality, health care and housing. I voted against Virginia’s marriage amendment defining marriage as being between a man and a woman when it came before the General Assembly.
Jocelyn Elders: Bring back public health standards for women’s reproductive health
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As Americans, we strive for safety – the safest medicines, safest cars, safest toys. But when it comes to women’s reproductive health, our state legislatures are passing laws putting women’s health at risk – about 250 since 2011.
ACLU of Virginia applauds ruling abolishing life without parole for most juvenile offenders
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The ACLU of Virginia welcomed this week’s federal court ruling that Virginia may not sentence juveniles convicted of offenses other than homicide to life without parole, and called on Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring to accept the court’s ruling rather than appeal it.
The Confederate flag and gay marriage: The legacy of nullification rearing its head
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You can’t change the history, no matter how much you argue it. There’s a reason Southern politicians started wrapping themselves in the Confederate flag in the 1940s and 1950s, and ran them up official statehouse flagpoles at the height of the civil rights era.
Warner, Kaine introduce bill assisting victims receiving eugenics compensation
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U.S. Senators Mark Warner and Tim Kaine joined Senators Thom Tillis (R-NC), Tom Carper (D-DE), and Richard Burr (R-NC) to introduce the Treatment of Certain Payments in Eugenics Compensation Act, which would exclude payments from state eugenics compensation programs from consideration in determining federal benefits.
Herring takes first steps to remove Confederate flag from Virginia specialty license plates
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Attorney General Mark Herring took the first legal steps necessary to remove the Confederate flag from Virginia license plates.
ACLU warns Republican Party of Virginia not to impose poll tax for presidential nomination
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The American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia sent a letter to Republican Party of Virginia Chair John Whitbeck urging the party to reject a proposal to charge delegates a fee to vote in a convention to nominate a presidential candidate in 2016.
Tim Kaine statement on Virginia Confederate flag license plate issue
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U.S. Senator Tim Kaine released the following statement today on Gov. Terry McAuliffe’s proposal to remove Confederate flags from state-issued Virginia license plates.
