Repeating their performances given during Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearings, Virginia’s Democratic Senators Tim Kaine and Mark Warner opposed Trump’s pick to head the Department of Justice, Attorney General William Barr.
The move from the Virginia General Assembly comes after a 20 percent increase in highway work zone deaths in 2017 and over 2,600 crashes in those areas.
51% of Democrats in Virginia’s General Assembly remain signed on as sponsors to Kathy Tran’s controversial third trimester abortion bill. On Friday, the deadline passed for withdrawing support from the measure.
26 House districts in the Richmond and Hampton Roads metropolitan areas will be altered as Virginia’s redistricting case is still set to be heard by the U.S. Supreme Court on March 18.
Judge Teresa M. Chafin was elected to the Supreme Court of Virginia, with the Honorable Clifford L. “Clay” Athey succeeding her on the Court of Appeals.
President Donald Trump receives four times less money than he requested, and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi reneges on her promise not to fund border wall construction.
Democratic lawmakers were advised to avoid answering direct questions about sexual assault allegations against Justin Fairfax, and whether they believe his accusers, according to an email leaked by a Democratic legislator to the New York Times.