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- March 19, 2019
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Supreme Court May Reject Racial Gerrymandering Challenge In Virginia Redistricting Case

If the questions regarding standing are resolved and the court takes the case, a ruling may not be handed down until May or even June, which could cause major interference in the legislative primary elections set for June 12.

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- March 16, 2019
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SCOTUS To Consider Virginia’s Redistricting Impasse Monday

The U.S. Supreme Court will consider the fate of the Commonwealth’s legislative map, which could again change the potential outcome of the 2019 elections following the unveil of the new map drawn by the court-appointed special master.

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- March 6, 2019
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Emergency Declaration Rebuke To Pass Senate, Congress Unlikely To Garner Votes To Overturn Trump Veto

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As the first-ever veto from President Trump will strike down the border wall rebuke, it could set up the first-ever Supreme Court case directly dealing with the formalization of the emergency powers of the commander in chief under the National Emergencies Act.

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- February 27, 2019
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Ed Gillespie Responds To Ralph Northam’s Racial Scandal

“This is a rough time in Virginia, it is not reflective of the values and the people of Virginia, and we’ve had tough times before and we’ve gotten through it and I’m confident we will get through it now,” said Ed Gillespie, the GOP candidate who ran against Northam in 2017.

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- January 25, 2019
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Senate Finance Committee Unanimously Passes Plan To Collect Internet Sales Tax

Following the Supreme Court’s decision in South Dakota v. Wayfair (2018), Virginia lawmakers are jumping on the opportunity to collect internet sales tax. The bigger question: what will the money be used for?

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- January 22, 2019
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Supreme Court Upholds Transgender Military Ban As Lower Court Cases Proceed

In a 5-4 decision, the justices upheld the enforcement of the ban on transgender military service members while litigation continues as it returns to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals for further proceedings. 

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- January 18, 2019
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Will The Commonwealth Continue To Evade The Natural Right Of Religious Freedom?

“We are free to declare, and do declare that the rights hereby asserted, are of the natural rights of mankind, and that if any act shall be hereafter passed to repeal the present or to narrow its operation, such act will be an infringement of natural right,” said Thomas Jefferson regarding any enacted premise that would strip Virginians, and indeed Americans, of their religious liberty.

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- September 13, 2018
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With Animus Towards President Trump, Tim Kaine Will Not Vote To Confirm Judge Kavanaugh To Supreme Court

Following Senator Mark Warner’s refusal to confirm Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court, Virginia’s other senator, Tim Kaine, will also not support him, revealing an animus towards President Donald Trump – angering many Virginians.

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- September 7, 2018
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Republican Senator Asks AG: Is Virginia Violating Brown v. Board As School Infrastructure Deteriorates?

“63 years later, does the U.S. Constitution or federal law provide a legal remedy for the failure to satisfy the Brown II mandate on school infrastructure?” State Senator Bill Stanley asks Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring as the consensus to fix crumbling schools throughout the Commonwealth gains widespread, bipartisan acclaim.

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- September 4, 2018
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Speaker Kirk Cox Formally Files Appeal To Supreme Court Over House Redistricting Plan

The 416-page appeal from the Republican speaker of the Virginia legislature prods the U.S. Supreme Court to consider “paradigmatic” errors made by the district court in their decision to declare 11 House districts unconstitutionally racially gerrymandered.

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