Lawsuit Says Virginia's Disenfranchisement Laws Violate Post-Civil War Statute
The lawsuit claims nonviolent felonies cannot be used to disenfranchise voters in the state.
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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 readmitted the state to the Union based on an 1868 state constitution that did include such a guarantee. , a ...