A trio of bills from Attorney General Mark Herring to protect the public and hold criminals accountable were ceremonially signed today by Governor Terry McAuliffe in front of advocates and sponsors.
Yesterday, the General Assembly passed compromise legislation crafted by the Office of Attorney General Mark Herring to protect Virginia businesses from “patent trolling.”
A trio of bills from Attorney General Mark Herring to protect the public and hold criminals accountable now await the Governor’s signature after successfully passing both houses of the General Assembly.
The Virginia attorney general announced today that his office has concluded Virginia’s bans on same sex marriage are unconstitutional, and he will no longer defend legal challenges to the bans now pending in federal court.
Attorney General Mark R. Herring today changed Virginia’s legal position in Bostic v. Rainey, siding with the plaintiffs in the pending case challenging Virginia’s ban on marriage rights for same sex couples.
Attorney General-elect Mark Herring today announced Cynthia E. Hudson will serve as his Chief Deputy Attorney General. In this new role Hudson will oversee the day-to-day legal operations of the Attorney General’s office and work with Attorney General Herring to provide top-level professional legal services to the Commonwealth and all Virginians.
In Blacksburg this weekend, the Virginia Citizens Defense League (VCDL) will be raffling off the same gun model used in the Virginia Tech massacre that claimed the lives of 33 students and faculty just down the street in April 2007. Speaking to a group of Virginia’s Commonwealth Attorneys Friday morning, Democratic nominee for attorney general Mark Herring criticized Republican nominee Mark Obenshain for supporting this group and their actions.
Gov. Bob McDonnell will propose state funding in FY2014 to begin increasing assistant Commonwealth’s attorneys’ salaries and to fill key vacant judgeships in his proposed budget amendments on Monday.
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