McAuliffe Pushes Forward with Rights Restoration Despite Supreme Court Ruling
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The Virginia Supreme Court may have overturned Democratic Governor Terry McAuliffe’s executive order restoring voting rights to 200,000 former felons. But as Michael Pope reports, that’s not stopping him from moving forward with the plan.
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