2023 General Assembly Session

  • Latest Update: November 22, 2022
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Summary

The 2023 legislative session is going to be just as challenging. We will do whatever it takes to block the bills that seek to roll back the progress we have made. At the same time, we will be proactively pushing several bills – some new, and some we and our partners have been working on for years.

We entered the 2023 legislative session knowing that it would be challenging – and it was. But the hard work of our team, our partners, and supporters like you resulted in many crucial legislative wins! Here are the highlights:

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Jun 26, 2023
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King v. Youngkin

The ACLU of Virginia, Protect Democracy, and WilmerHale on the behalf of individual plaintiffs Melvin Wingate, Tati Abu King, and Toni Heath Johnson, as well as Bridging the Gap In Virginia, filed a first-of-its-kind lawsuit in federal court challenging the Virginia Constitution’s felony disenfranchisement provision. The case, filed in the Eastern District of Virginia, claims that Virginia is in violation of the 150-year-old federal law that established the terms of Virginia’s readmission to representation in the United States Congress after the Civil War.