The VLW Blog

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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After three free expression advocacy groups filed a civil suit to overturn Virginia’s campaign button ban on behalf of two Obama supporters, now comes word that a voter in Madison County actually was arrested and charged after refusing to cover up her McCain T-shirt.
The plaintiffs in the federal lawsuit complied with requests by election officials [...]

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Call it the odd trio.  Three free speech advocacy groups that don’t always see eye-to-eye have found common ground to challenge Virginia’s ban on campaign apparel at the voting booth.
A lawsuit challenging the campaign button ban was filed this week by the (typically liberal) ACLU of Virginia, the (typically conservative) Rutherford Institute, and the (professed [...]

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Patrick C. Muldoon, who live in Giles County and practices patent law in Washington, DC, has launched an uphill battle for the Republican nomination for lieutenant governor. 
The Roanoke Times points out the incumbent, Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling already has strong party support for a reelection bid. 

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Let there be no doubt: an election recount is a legal event.
As noted on the Democrat Central blog, there are no less than eight lawyers and judges involved in the recount of Tom Perriello’s apparent victory over incumbent Rep. Virgil Goode in Virginia’s fifth Congressional district.
For Goode, lawyers Lee Goodman and Chris Ashby of LeClair [...]

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A second-year law student will be among the 13 Virginia electors when they gather in Richmond on Dec. 15 to formally vote Virginia for the Obama-Biden ticket.  As noted by the law school at the College of William & Mary, Christia V. Rey will represent the first Congressional district
“George Wythe would be very proud of [...]

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According to this blog post, there are three candidates, so far, for next month’s election to fill the seat of former Fredericksburg Commonwealth’s Attorney Charles Sharp.  Gov. Timothy M. Kaine in August appointed Sharp to the circuit court bench.
The announced candidates are assistant Fredericksburg prosecutor La Bravia J. Jenkins, local attorney Joseph “Jeh” Hicks, and [...]

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State election officials sued by the McCain campaign say Virginia law requires them to ignore any ballots received after Election Day, even though many military voters may not have received absentee ballots in time to be delivered back to registrars by Nov. 4.
“The Defendants must object to the plaintiffs’ attempt to re-write Virginia law as [...]

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According to the numbers, Democrat Tom Perriello now has the slimmest of leads over incumbent Republican Virgil Goode in the back-and-forth vote count battle for Virginia’s 5th congressional seat.  But the numbers differ depending on the source, as reported by WVIR.
We’re told there are still provisional ballots to be considered in Charlottesville.
By Peter Vieth

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One of the candidates for next year’s state attorney general election says it’s time for Virginia to adopt early voting.
Roanoke lawyer John P. Fishwick Jr. says Virginia should join the 30 or more states that currently allow unfettered early voting.  (Virginia does allow early voting by absentee ballot, but absentee voters must swear under oath [...]

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