Virginia is the only state that permanently bans anyone convicted of a felony from voting unless a governor restores their rights. In a plea to lawmakers to pass the amendment, Democratic Del.

Virginia Democrats could lead Virginia on the first step toward ending racist voting practices that hearken to the days of ...

(CN) —The Virginia Senate unanimously passed a bill Tuesday to put primates in sanctuaries ... The university changed its stance on the bill once an amendment was adopted to allow facility ...

Savage reported from Chicago. This story corrects the year when Virginia ratified the Equal Rights Amendment to 2020, not 2000.

Leaders of both parties honored 100 Black lawmakers from the Reconstruction era, then turned to modern battles over ...

Q: Did former President Joe Biden issue a statement saying that he thought the Equal Rights Amendment should be considered ...

Andrew Walworth interviews columnist and New England Law Boston professor Wendy Murphy about how President Biden's lame-duck declaration of support for the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) conflicts ...

The Democrat-controlled Senate passed ... an amendment to the latter measure that would only prohibit people from transferring guns to people receiving mental health treatment. Virginia law ...

RICHMOND, Va. — Efforts to regulate social media use by children and teenagers in Virginia have stalled in this year's General Assembly. Several bills, including those aimed at curbing addictive ...

For the second year in a row, the Virginia Senate has advanced a proposal to enshrine a person's right to contraception in state law. The bill, which passed along party lines, says neither the ...

RICHMOND, Va. — A bill that would enshrine the right to contraception has passed the Virginia Senate. Senate Bill 1105, referred to as the "Right to Contraception" bill, would give Virginians ...