The VLW Blog

What better place to troll for money from liberal – relatively speaking anyway – Virginians than The New York Times?
That appears to be the thinking of Common Sense Virginia, a state political action committee that is sponsoring The Real Bob Mcdonnell Web site.
Visitors to The Times Web site from Virginia are likely to encounter a [...]

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Two of the Republicans hoping to win their party’s nomination for attorney general have differing views on a plan to expand the Virginia death penalty, according to the Northern Virginia Daily.
Posted by Paul Fletcher

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Madison County Commonwealth’s Attorney George Webb III has decided not to prosecute a woman for wearing a McCain T-shirt to the polls during last November’s election.
The American Civil Liberties Union had taken on the case, appointing four lawyers to defend Leigh Purdum, who was arrested for refusing to cover her political T-shirt at the Brightwood [...]

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The judge in the Gloucester recall petition case says he will give the petitioners another hearing on who has to pay the $80,000 attorney fee award he ordered.
The case has become a lightning rod for citizen activists and free speech advocates who  criticized the decision by substitute Judge Westbrook J. Parker to impose defense costs [...]

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A lawyer who called herself “Madame Justice” when she ran unsuccessfully for the North Carolina Supreme Court has been hit with a public reprimand from the state bar in N.C.
Rachel Lea Hunter is an associate at a Durham law firm, but her campaign Web site reveals her flamboyant political side.
The Web site used to include [...]

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At a Roanoke forum last evening, each of the three candidates for the Republican nomination for attorney general sought to show why he was the most likely to triumph in the November election.  Ken Cuccinelli, John Brownlee, and Dave Foster spent an equal amount of time establishing their conservative credentials before a crowd of about [...]

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The ACLU of Virginia will add its voice to the Gloucester attorney fee case through a friend-of-the-court brief.
Forty Gloucester County citizens who sought removal of four county supervisors were chastised and sanctioned by the judge who rejected their recall petition.  The judge imposed an $80,000 attorney fee award.
L. Steven Emmert of Virginia Beach is handling [...]

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The Virginia Organizing Project is working to restore voting rights for felons who have served their time, according to the C-Ville Weekly.  One of the activists pushing for legislative reform says, under current law, an application for restoration of civil rights can be derailed by a simple speeding ticket.
Posted by Peter Vieth

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The recount court has proclaimed Democratic challenger Tom Perriello the victor over Republican incumbent Virgil Goode in the recount of the vote in Virginia’s 5th Congressional District.
“Having determined that Tom S. Perriello has received the highest number of votes, this court declares that he is elected as the representative of the 5th District,” Judge Timothy [...]

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The ACLU of Virginia thinks those angry Gloucester County citizens who tried to oust four county supervisors should not be penalized for their activism.  The ACLU is announcing that it will consider coming to the citizens’ defense if they are ordered to pay the supervisors’ legal fees.
The supervisors claim more than $100,000 in legal fees [...]

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