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For the first time in more than a century, Virginia won’t be honoring generals Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson with a holiday as the state continues to shed its Confederate symbols.
Hours before the governor spoke of an ambitious Democratic agenda, delegates met remotely and senators gathered inside a sparsely filled conference room at Richmond’s Science Museum of Virginia.
Lawmakers will consider bills that would legalize marijuana and change other parts of the justice system. They'll also grapple with how the coronavirus has affected people's lives and the economy.
The Virginia Democrats support growing calls to invoke the 25th Amendment, under which the vice president and a majority of Cabinet secretaries could declare the president unable to carry out his duties. Vice President Mike Pence would then become acting president.
The move will “expand and reorganize” the state’s previous Division of Human Rights, according to a statement released Tuesday by the office of Attorney General Mark Herring, whose office oversees it.
Republican Sylvia Bryant and Democrat Angelia Williams Graves are running in the 90th House District, which covers eastern Norfolk and a tiny sliver of Virginia Beach.
Virginia voters said everyday people should help draw legislative districts. So far applicants are much whiter, older and wealthier than the state’s population.