In a blow to voting rights, the Virginia Supreme Court blocked Democratic Gov. Terry McAuliffe from automatically restoring the voting rights of felons who have completed their sentences. Virginia is one of just four states that effectively imposes a lifetime ban on most felons from voting, even post-sentencing. Previously, Virginians had to go through a lengthy appeal to the governor to have their voting rights restored, but McAuliffe recently issued a sweeping executive order to streamline the process for roughly 206,000 felons who had fully served their time and weren’t on parole or probation. In a four-to-three ruling that fell along ideological lines, Virginia’s Supreme Court held that McAuliffe lacked the authority to issue a blanket order when the process had previously been handled on a case-by-case basis.

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