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2025 showdown: This Republican woman may become nation’s first Black female governor
Fox News, National

2025 showdown: This Republican woman may become nation’s first Black female governor

By Paul Steinhauser  | Fox News Republican Lt. Gov. Winsome Sears of Virginia could make history next year as the nation's first Black woman to win election as a governor. She would also make history as Virginia's first female governor. But Sears, in an exclusive national interview with Fox News Digital, emphasized that "I'm not really running to make history. I'm just trying to, as I've said before, leave it better than I found it, and I want everyone to have the same opportunities I had." READ THE FULL STORY AT FOX NEWS
Virginia turns to Supreme Court to boot alleged noncitizens from voter rolls
National, Washington Examiner

Virginia turns to Supreme Court to boot alleged noncitizens from voter rolls

By Ashley Oliver| Washington Examiner Virginia’s attorney general asked the Supreme Court on Monday to step in quickly and halt a recent order by a lower court that forced the state to restore more than 1,600 possible noncitizens to its voter registration list. Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares, a Republican, argued in a petition to the high court that the lower court’s “election-eve injunction,” which was issued on Friday and affirmed by the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals, violated Virginia’s law and “common sense.” The lower court had sided with the Department of Justice and liberal voting rights groups by ordering Virginia election officials on Friday, less than two weeks out from the 2024 election, to stop a process of cross-checking Department of Motor...