Democratic Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe defied the Virginia Supreme Court during his Democratic National Convention speech by promising to unilaterally restore voting rights for violent felons — par for the course, considering he’s a longtime ally of Hillary Clinton.
In a major setback to Hillary Clinton’s presidential bid, the Virginia Supreme Court held Friday that Gov. Terry McAuliffe—Clinton’s scandal-plagued ally, currently being investigated by the FBI—violated the Virginia Constitution when he granted mass amnesty to 206,000 convicted felons by allowing them to vote in the 2016 presidential election.
President Barack Obama’s administration showed Tuesday that he wants to pressure landlords to ignore the criminal records of would-be renters.
On Tuesday, the Democratic governor of Kentucky, sucker-punching the largely GOP state one last time before he leaves office, issued an executive order granting the right to vote to roughly 140,000 nonviolent felons whose sentences have been completed.
