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Senate of Virginia

Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares
Jun 12, 2025

Senate Democrats, AG Miyares duel over rejected university board appointees

Attorney General Jason Miyares and Senate Majority Leader Scott Surovell are sparring over a Senate committee's rejection of eight university board appointees by the governor.

Virginia state Sen. Joe Morrissey is geared up for the 2023 General Assembly session, in which he hopes to secure approval for Petersburg to hold a casino referendum. Photo by Matthew R.O. Brown
Dec 29, 2022

Gloves off

Although many political observers doubt there will be much legislation of major significance passed by the split legislature this year, Sen. Joe Morrissey, D-Petersburg, is gambling on a productive 2023. As one of a slight Democratic majority in the Virginia Senate, the only state body currently under the party’s control, Morrissey is in an enviable […]

Dec 29, 2022

The main event

Updated Jan. 4, 2023 Like the quote from a possibly apocryphal Harvard Law professor, Virginia legislators can look to their left and then to their right, and one of their peers probably won’t be seated there next year, thanks to a supercharged primary field created by a late 2021 redistricting. And now, 61 of Virginia’s […]

Photo illustration by Mark Jeffries
Dec 29, 2022

Crowded out

Election years are not the time to make waves in Virginia’s legislature, says Greg Habeeb, a former Roanoke delegate who now advises clients pursuing legislation in the General Assembly. Big changes — the kind the state saw during the Democrats‘ two years of full legislative control in 2020 and 2021 — are expected to be […]

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