Today the Supreme Court of Virginia struck down Governor McAuliffe’s restoration of the voting rights to over 206,000 felons.
From the Richmond Times-Dispatch:
The court declared McAuliffe’s order unconstitutional, and ordered the Virginia Department of Elections to “cancel the registration of all felons who have been invalidly registered” under McAuliffe’s April 22 executive order and subsequent orders. The court gave a cancellation deadline of Aug. 25.
As of this week, 11,662 felons had registered to vote as a result of McAuliffe’s action.
This is great news!
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McAwful claims that he’ll restore their “rights” if he has to do it one at a time. A boast? At least it will keep him busy and out of more trouble 🙂
He is already ignoring the Virginia Supreme Court decision.
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2016/07/23/3801355/virginia-felon-voting-update/
Typo alert: Title should say “Restoration” not “Resortation”
[…] Friday the Supreme Court of Virginia overturned the action of Governor McAuliffe restoration of voting rights t… Undaunted by the court’s action, McAuliffe vowed to restore those rights, using numerous […]
Well done, Delegate Rob Bell & Team!
But he did try. the progressives are emboldened by the executive-action Obama and McAuliffe thought that would work for him as well. Darn….not enough judges who legislate from the bench, but they are coming to a court near you soon.