The U.S. House is taking up the issue this week after decades of organizing in statehouses.
The Virginia attorney general is considering “any and all options moving forward, including an appeal”; U.S. House is expected to take up a related resolution this month.
Legislators have filed dozens of bills that aim to change how people vote, and voting rights groups are pushing back.
The bill, which comes as a number of state legislatures push for new voting restrictions, faces steeper odds in the Senate.
Senate Democrats failed to garner enough support to consider a bill to recognize the Equal Rights Amendment as part of the Constitution.
Several statehouses are advancing bills that experts say will make it harder for people to vote.
It’s one of several states debating and enacting policies to help a woman-dominated industry that has been hit hard by the pandemic.
Time is running out this year in Kentucky for Breonna’s Law, a police accountability bill, and one state lawmaker is not giving up.
The ban was temporarily blocked by a federal judge. Abortion-rights advocates say the legislation is the first major abortion restriction passed out of a statehouse in 2021.
Lawmakers in at least five states have introduced legislation that threatens to cut funding to schools that share curriculum about the award-winning project.