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Voting is a cornerstone of our democracy, yet there is no guaranteed right to vote in the federal or Virginia constitutions.
The following statement in relation to Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring's recent announcement about cash bail may be attributed to ACLU of Virginia Executive Director Claire Guthrie Gastañaga:
In response to recent news report on a new policy at Nottoway Correctional Center that prohibits the use of certain hygiene products, such as tampons and menstrual cups, during visitation, the ACLU of Virginia issued the following statement.
Today, the ACLU of Virginia and 22 other organizations signed on to a letter by the Legal Aid Justice Center (LAJC) to the Virginia House Select Committee on School Safety, calling upon the General Assembly and Governor Northam to address the Commonwealth’s school safety concerns by investing in
The ACLU of Virginia strongly objects to the Caroline County Board of Supervisors’ recent decision to enter into a contract agreement with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to use a former county facility to hold immigrant detainees.
“This ruling will go down in history as one of the Supreme Court’s great failures. It repeats the mistakes of the Korematsu decision upholding Japanese-American imprisonment and swallows wholesale government lawyers’ flimsy national security excuse for the ban..."