Jay Jones: “Certainly yesterday, we had hoped to get a decision to streamline these cases.”

That history is personal to me, and it reminds us that the work of civil rights and voting rights is never finished.

That is why we created a dedicated Voter Protection Section within the Office of the Attorney General. This work now has a permanent home, and a team focused every day on defending voting rights and enforcing Virginia law.

I was raised by people who understood that the right to vote was never simply given. Generations of Americans had to sacrifice, organize, and show extraordinary courage to claim that right.

Case participants cannot simply take the Joint Petitioners at their word that these new proposals are unqualified benefits that will accrue to Virginia ratepayers and citizens.