A coalition of advocacy groups filed a federal lawsuit Monday over a Virginia law that automatically stripped convicted felons of their voting rights shortly after the Civil War. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Virginia, voting rights advocacy group Protect Democracy and law firm WilmerHale filed the lawsuit Monday against Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin…
Three disenfranchised Virginians are suing their state on accusations that their right to vote was stripped away by illegal century-old amendments to the state's constitution that bar felons from voting.