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2024 General Assembly Wrap-up
The General Assembly completed its reconvened (“veto”) session last month, and we wanted to provide a more complete rundown of outcomes for our legislative priorities. Read More
U.S. Supreme Court to Hear LAJC Civil Rights Case
Yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear the government’s appeal of our victory in Lackey v. Stinnie (formerly Stinnie v. Holcomb), putting civil rights enforcement and access… Read More
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Michaela Ross
Michaela Ross is a Senior Attorney on the Housing & Consumer Justice team in the Richmond, VA office of the Legal Aid Justice Center. Prior to… Read More
Governor Youngkin’s Veto Denies Minimum Wage Protections for Virginia’s Farmworkers
HB157 would have corrected a vestige of the Jim Crow Era and protected some of our most vulnerable workers RICHMOND, VA – Today, during National… Read More
LAJC Immigration Work Spotlight
Today, we want to highlight the recent efforts of our Immigrant Justice Program. The Immigrant Justice Program advocates alongside immigrant communities to end mass detention… Read More
LAJC’s priorities at the end of the 2024 General Assembly Session
That’s a wrap! The 2024 Regular General Assembly Session officially ended on Friday, March 9. There were 3,594 bills introduced this session; 2,280 of those bills… Read More
LAJC Priority Bills Update
We have reached the halfway point for the 2024 General Assembly Session. For the past month, LAJC and our community partners have been actively doing… Read More
Big Win at the Fourth Circuit
For nearly eight years, we have been fighting on behalf of four families who were eventually forced to leave their homes in a Fairfax County… Read More
Lauren McGarry
Lauren worked as a Public Defender in her hometown of Martinsville, Virginia, for approximately 6 years before joining the Legal Aid Justice Center. As a… Read More
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Mary Brunal
Mary was born in Barranquilla, Colombia, and came to the States in 2004 when she was 8. In 2020, she got her citizenship. Mary has… Read More
