February 23, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a challenge to Virginia's voting rights restoration system for people with felony convictions, leaving in place a Fourth Circuit decision that upheld the system as constitutional.
August 22, 2025
A formerly incarcerated Virginia man convicted of attempted murder as a minor couldn't argue his constitutional rights had been violated by Gov. Glenn Youngkin, who refused to allow him to vote, the Fourth Circuit said, finding the state's process of vesting reenfranchisement in its top executive was constitutional.