WaPo: “Several advocacy groups filed a federal lawsuit Monday alleging a Virginia law that automatically stripped the right to vote from more than 300,000 convicted felons is an illegal vestige of historical efforts to keep Black residents from casting ballots.
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Virginia, the voting rights group Protect Democracy and the law firm WilmerHale sued Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) and other state officials, asserting that the law violates the 150-year-old terms of Virginia’s readmission into the Union after the Civil War.
The lawsuit was filed on behalf of three disenfranchised felons in Alexandria, the Charlottesville area and the southwest part of the state, as well as Bridging the Gap, a nonprofit organization that helps formerly incarcerated people.”