“The court stood firm on its historic ruling in King v. Youngkin, paving the way for thousands of disproportionately Black Virginians to reclaim voting rights back that should never been stripped in the first place,” said ACLU-VA Senior Supervising Attorney Vishal Agraharkar.

“Together, Virginia is speaking with one voice: we will not be coopted into carrying out the Trump administration’s brutal and legally dubious anti-immigrant agenda,” said ACLU-VA Policy Director Chris Kaiser.

“Abuse and civil rights violations are rampant in these facilities, and the public has a right to know where and how the government intends to expand its use of these deadly facilities," said ACLU-VA Senior Immigrants' Rights Attorney Sophia Gregg.

“Virginia’s government has blatantly broken the law for more than a century by disenfranchising everyone with a felony conviction, disproportionately affecting Black and Brown Virginians,” said ACLU-VA Senior Supervising Attorney Vishal Agraharkar.

“VDOC has held hundreds of people in agonizing solitary confinement conditions indefinitely – despite the fact that officials knew they were inflicting suffering and these conditions are unconstitutional,” said ACLU-VA Senior Supervising Attorney Vishal Agraharkar.

“Just because VDOC doesn’t like the law as it’s written doesn’t mean it can go rogue and make its own,” said ACLU-VA Senior Supervising Attorney Vishal Agraharkar.

“To make her vision into a reality, the governor must terminate the state’s existing 287g agreements and Virginia lawmakers must deliver meaningful legislation to her desk to protect Virginians,” said ACLU-VA Executive Director Mary Bauer.

"Amending Virginia’s constitution is a vital part of shoring up our rights here at home and putting them firmly out of reach of partisan politics," said ACLU-VA Executive Director Mary Bauer.

"Lawmakers gave the ombudsman’s office the authority to bring transparency to VDOC, not to shield it from allegations of wrongdoing," said ACLU-VA Senior Supervising Attorney Vishal Agraharkar.