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Disqualified voters challenge Virginia’s felony disenfranchisement provision

JURIST

Three Virginia citizens disqualified from voting due to felony convictions joined a nonprofit organization to file a lawsuit Monday in federal court against Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin and several state elections officials. The action challenges the felony disenfranchisement provision of the Virginia Constitution.

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New Law Makes No-Fault Divorce Easier in Virginia

Livesay&Myers

The Virginia General Assembly has made a significant change to Virginia Code § 20-106 concerning the requirements for a no-fault divorce. Effective July 1, 2021, Virginia law will no longer require a corroborating witness for a divorce based on no-fault grounds. There are advantages and disadvantages to each.

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In habeas case, the liberal justices try to untangle a complex statute

SCOTUSBlog

Hendrix , a case that exemplifies the Gordian knot that is the federal habeas corpus statute. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s questioning proposed a way of reading the statute that relies on its overall structure, directing a court to go down a list of provisions like a roadmap of decision. “If

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Pair of immigration cases come to the court on key issue in some deportation proceedings

SCOTUSBlog

Congress extended the Immigration and Nationality Act, which regulates immigration into the United States, in 1988 to give immigration enforcement authorities, now the Department of Homeland Security, the power to automatically deport noncitizens convicted of an “aggravated felony” at the state or federal level.

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Botched robbery leads to latest test of what constitutes “crime of violence”

SCOTUSBlog

In 2003, Justin Eugene Taylor sold marijuana in Richmond, Virginia. The case involves the interaction of two federal criminal statutes. The second statute is 18 U.S.C. § Under the so-called “residual clause,” a crime of violence can also include any felony that, “by its nature,” entails “a substantial risk” of physical force.

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What constitutes “identity theft”?

SCOTUSBlog

In recent years, the Supreme Court has expressed misgivings about white-collar prosecutions under broadly worded statutes. United States (involving the prosecution of the former Virginia governor), Kelly v. This week’s installment will be brief, because there’s only one newly relisted case: Dubin v. United States. Think McDonnell v.

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Truth, Lies and Plea Bargaining

The Crime Report

In some examples cited in the paper, a Virginia defendant in Virginia charged with transporting marijuana pleaded guilty to trafficking a different type of drug altogether; a New York defendant charged with animal cruelty pleaded guilty to trespassing even though no trespassing was involved.