Jay Jones: “The Joint Petitioners have put a different deal on the table.”

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

The General Assembly was well within its legal authority to pass this law and to put statutory requirements in place to ensure Virginia’s already resource-constrained localities and law enforcement agencies are not devoting critical…

Accordingly, my team will continue to vigorously defend this law to ensure that state and local law enforcement are focused on their core responsibilities of investigating and deterring criminal activity, staffing correctional facilities…

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.