Readmission Act News Today

Legal efforts challenge Youngkin’s pace on rights restoration.

In June, four individuals and an advocacy organization for previously incarcerated individuals brought suit in the Eastern District of Virginia against several state and local officials...

The removal of a ban in Mississippi's constitution is a big win—and could revitalize use of the Eighth Amendment against harsh punishments.

A Smyth County woman is part of a suit that says Virginia is violating the provisions of the 1870 law that readmitted it to the Union after the Civil War.

A new lawsuit against the State of Virginia says the commonwealth is wrongfully denying 300,000 Virginians their Constitutional right to vote by citing a Civil War-era law as justification.

The lawsuit claims nonviolent felonies cannot be used to disenfranchise voters in the state.

The suit says Virginia's law stripping the right to vote from more than 300,000 convicted felons violates the terms of the state's readmission to the Union.

A Full U.S. Appeals Court Lets Federal Right-to-Education Case Go Forward Copy URL Over a vigorous dissent, a full federal appeals court has narrowly voted against rehearing a case in which an appellate panel revived a lawsuit raising a novel claim to a federal right to education for poor children in two Mississippi school districts. alleges that Mississippi’s lack of a “uniform” education system under its 1987 state constitution violates the post-Civil War federal law that readmitte...