RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) – Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s system for restoring voting rights to Virginians with past felony convictions survived a legal challenge, but not before a parting shot from a federal judge who compared the governor’s authority to “a monarch.”
U.S. District Court Judge John A. Gibney denied George Hawkins’ challenge of Gov. Youngkin’s process, which uses a case-by-case method after the governor dropped the automatic system for many from his Democratic and Republican predecessors.
