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Feb282021 by ShawnNo Comments

Virginia lawmakers vote to legalize marijuana in 2024

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Through Denise Lavoie and Sarah Rankin | Related Press RICHMOND, Va. — Virginia lawmakers gave ultimate approval Saturday to a invoice that can legalize marijuana for grownup leisure use, however now not till 2024, when retail gross sales of the drug would additionally start. With a compromise invoice clearing the Space and Senate, Virginia turns into the primary Southern state to vote to legalize marijuana, becoming a member of 15 different states and the District of Columbia. The regulation now is going to Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam, who helps legalization. The invoice was once a most sensible precedence for Democrats, who framed legalization as a important step to finish the disparate remedy of folks of colour underneath present marijuana rules. However talks between Democrats wit...

Feb232021 by ShawnNo Comments

El Chapo’s spouse arrested in Virginia on drug fees

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By means of Jonathan Stempel | Reuters WASHINGTON – The spouse of Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, the imprisoned former chief of Mexico’s Sinaloa drug cartel, used to be arrested on Monday over her alleged involvement in world drug trafficking, the U.S. Division of Justice stated. Emma Coronel Aispuro, 31, a standard attendee at her husband’s trial two years in the past, used to be arrested at Dulles Global Airport in northern Virginia, and is anticipated to seem in a federal court docket in Washington on Tuesday. A attorney for Coronel may no longer right away be recognized. It used to be unclear why Coronel, a twin U.S.-Mexico citizen, used to be within the Washington space. Coronel’s arrest got here two years after a celebrated trial in Brooklyn the place Guzman, now 63, used to be convic...

Feb222021 by ShawnNo Comments

Virginia lawmakers vote to abolish dying penalty

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Through Denise Lavoie and Sarah Rankin | Related Press RICHMOND, Va. — State lawmakers gave ultimate approval Monday to regulation that can finish capital punishment in Virginia, a dramatic turnaround for a state that has completed extra folks in its lengthy historical past than some other. The regulation repealing the dying penalty now heads to Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam, who has stated he's going to signal it into regulation, making Virginia the twenty third state to forestall executions. “There’s a realization that it's time to finish this out of date observe that has a tendency to deliver extra hurt to sufferers’ members of the family than offering us any convenience or solace,” stated Rachel Sutphin, whose father, Cpl. Eric Sutphin, used to be fatally shot in 2006 whilst operati...

Feb52021 by ShawnNo Comments

Virginia strikes one step nearer to banning dying penalty

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By means of Veronica Stracqualursi | CNN Virginia is ready to grow to be the twenty third state to abolish the dying penalty, after the state Area of Delegates handed regulation Friday that might finish capital punishment within the Commonwealth an afternoon after the state Senate handed a an identical invoice and the governor stated he plans to signal it. Friday’s vote at the invoice within the Area of Delegates was once 57-41, with 3 Republicans becoming a member of the Democratic majority in make stronger of the measure. Virginia’s Democratic-led Senate handed their model of the invoice on Wednesday on a party-line vote, and it was once referred to a Area committee Friday. The 2 expenses will want to be licensed by means of the opposite chamber, and Virginia Area Democrats are “assur...

Feb52021 by ShawnNo Comments

Virginia Democrats Have a Plan to Rid the Publish Place of job of Louis DeJoy

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When Joe Biden took place of work, various Trump appointees left the US executive. Those that weren’t prepared to depart had been fired via the incoming president. Eliminating Louis DeJoy, the Postmaster Normal, was once no longer really easy. DeJoy won infamy over the summer season via slowing down the mail in what appeared like an try to depress mail-in vote casting. It's not as simple to do away with DeJoy, alternatively. That job would fall to the Postal Provider Board of Governors. Donald Trump had stacked that frame with loyalists whilst he was once nonetheless in energy. Virginia Rep. Donald McEachin is encouraging the board to take away DeJoy. The congressman additionally wrote a letter to Joe Biden urging the president to switch board individuals who ar...

Feb32021 by ShawnNo Comments

Virginia Senate votes to abolish the demise penalty

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Through Sarah Rankin | Related Press RICHMOND, Va. — The Virginia Senate handed a invoice Wednesday that will abolish the demise penalty, a measure that if handed into regulation would mark a big coverage exchange for a state that has traditionally led the country within the selection of executions it has performed. The Democrat-controlled chamber licensed the invoice on a 21-17 vote, which got here after a long, emotional flooring debate. “I can't bring to mind the rest this is extra terrible, unspeakable and improper for a central authority to do, than to make use of its energy to execute anyone who didn’t devote the crime they’re accused of. The issue with capital punishment is that after it’s inflicted you'll be able to’t take it again, it may well’t be corrected,” Sen. Scott Surov...

Jan272021 by ShawnNo Comments

Virginia GOP Gubernatorial Hopeful Suggests Capitol Rebellion Used to be Justified As a result of COVID Restrictions

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Virginia was once lengthy a Republican state. The ones days, alternatively are over. Lately, the state has long past purple to crimson to blue. That doesn’t imply, despite the fact that, that Republicans can’t win within the commonwealth. Democratic governor Ralph Northam will likely be in search of reelection in 2022. Amanda Chase, a Republican state Rep. hopes to be the only to unseat him. That can be tougher for Chase to take action now after feedback she made in regards to the January sixth rebel. Chase, who Salon considers the favourite within the looming Republican number one, made the feedback all through an interview with Sky Information. A British reporter requested, “They’re taking a look in on The united states and questioning what on earth is happening r...

Jan192021 by ShawnNo Comments

Police grasp firearms from Black males at Virginia rally for gun rights

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Via Julia Harte, Julio-Cesar Chavez | Reuters RICHMOND, Va. – Police stopped a automobile of Black males and confiscated two in their weapons at Virginia’s annual “Foyer Day” on Monday whilst white gun rights activists defied native rules unimpeded within the state capital of Richmond. In an afternoon with racial tensions on show, Black protesters denounced what they known as a double usual in a state the place individuals are loose to overtly raise firearms. Virginians converge at the capitol every Foyer Day to petition state legislators on problems with public pastime, however the day has been ruled via gun rights activists lately. It coincides with Martin Luther King Jr. Day, which honors the slain civil rights hero. Reuters witnessed the police forestall of the African American citi...