By Lorraine Marie Simonis Simonis is a third-year student at the University of Virginia School of Law.. The Parkland school shooting has reignited America’s cyclical gun control debate. At the urging of Parkland student activists, thousands of people demonstrated across… Read More ›
No person who has been convicted of a felony shall be qualified to vote unless his civil rights have been restored by the Governor or other appropriate authority. … Read More ›
By Lorraine Marie Simonis Ms. Simonis is a J.D. candidate at the University of Virginia School of Law, graduating in May 2018. Editor’s Note: This piece originally appeared in the Richmond Times-Dispatch. A bill to ban “sanctuary cities” in Virginia–which… Read More ›
Editors’ Note, July 8, 2019: The article that follows was originally published 15 months ago. Given that tomorrow will see the start of Governor Northam’s special legislative session on gun safety laws, we thought it an opportune time to revisit… Read More ›
The 2016 presidential election witnessed 137 million votes cast with 66 million and 63 million cast respectively for the Democratic and Republican candidates. Under our constitutional structure reflected in the Electoral College system, the popular votes translated into 302 electoral… Read More ›
Bad is good. Up is down. North is south. Ignorance is smart. Remember George Orwell’s 1984 and Newspeak? Do you get the feeling that familiar anchors of acceptable societal behavior are slipping away? And if so, what is at risk?… Read More ›
In 1964, the 24th Amendment outlawed the poll tax in federal elections but four states retained the restriction—Alabama, Mississippi, Texas, and Virginia. The year prior, Annie E. Harper was among a group of Fairfax residents who filed suit challenging the… Read More ›
Fans of American history who appreciate the view of iconoclasts such as Howard Zinn and Eric Foner will enjoy White Trash, subtitled The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America, by Nancy Isenberg, as she persuasively and skillfully traces the… Read More ›
In the 2017 elections in Virginia for its lower house, Democrats outpolled Republicans 53 to 43% by a margin of 231,000 votes but secured only 49 of 100 seats at stake. In similar fashion, the Wisconsin case now before… Read More ›