A federal judge has rejected a challenge to Gov. Glenn Youngkin‘s system for restoring voting rights to people convicted of felonies, but with harsh words for the governor’s new approach, saying it is like the power of a king.
Youngkin ended the more automatic rights-restoration programs of Govs. Ralph Northam, Terry McAuliffe and Bob McDonnell when he reinstated an older case-by-case approach. It has meant far fewer people had their rights restored.
Read the full story in the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
