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After being praised by the NYU School of Law’s State Energy and Environmental Impact Center for his work including fighting the Trump’s Administration’s EPA for their proposal to roll back vehicle emissions standards from the Obama-era, fighting Virginia’s offshore drilling plans, promoting the Clean Power Plan, and pledging to remain committed to the Paris climate accords, Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring is hit with a lawsuit for his alleged efforts and the legality of bringing aboard climate litigators into the state government funded by billionaire Michael Bloomberg to prosecute more Virginia environmental offenses.

“I never thought the day would come when I would run for political office,” said Arash Ebrahimi as he announced that he would run in the 33rd State Senate district’s yet-to-be-scheduled special election. “However, inspired by my father’s courage to leave behind his home country for the promise of our ‘shining city on a hill,’ I cannot simply sit by and watch as government regulations and spending expands.”

“When I formed the Select Committee on School Safety I promised that our final product would be comprehensive and consensus-driven,” said head of the committee Speaker of the House of Delegates Kirk Cox (R-Colonial Heights) following Wednesday’s authorization of a 24-point priority recommendation plan to increase security in schools, which includes realigning the role of school counselors, statewide mental health and suicide prevention efforts, increasing funding for school resource officers, and bolstering school security grants.

Approximately 31 percent of registered voters aged 18 to 29 cast ballots during the midterm elections. The results were well above the midterm election turnout of 2014, and the highest for any midterm in the past 25 years.

Congressman Jerry Nadler (NY-10) said there is an effort to remove President Trump’s pick from the Supreme Court “through further investigation of the uncorroborated allegations against him,” that were brought forth during his now-infamous Senate confirmation hearing. He added that 2019’s House Judiciary Committee would be “all in” on an impeachment effort against Trump.

The relationship between White House Chief of Staff John Kelly and President Donald Trump has become politically strained over the last year, being overshadowed by a sense of controversy and contention that has dominated Kelly’s decorum with Trump and others within the West Wing.

“This project will not only create thousands of new, high-paying jobs in Virginia, but it will also source a large portion of those new employees from our very own in-state talent.”

Following weeks of impasses, mysterious “map makers,” partisan power grabs, and motions to the Supreme Court, Virginia’s redistricting case will now heard by the newly-cemented conservative high court.