As folks debate the role of the Attorney General and the candidates in the 2021 election, I've updated a blog entry I first wrote before...

Thinking about "retiring" this month after 9 years at the ACLU of Virginia, I turned as I often do to a book by  Robert Grudin – T...

When challenged in 2016 by people asserting that his voter restoration initiative was a plan to qualify Black people to vote for Hilary, the...

I n October, I announced my intention to "retire" from my job as Executive Director of the ACLU of Virginia.  Here's what I sa...

  Vigil --   Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg September 20, 2020 We are here tonight to pay our respects to a righteous woman who led the way...

  This is the text of a talk I gave in Richmond at a Mindful Mornings event.  What's most important in the context of this election and ...

So, in 2004 , I wrote this about the Bush/Kerry debates: Is it just me or are these guys (Bush/Kerry)  lining up at the stop light in thei...

Looking for something else on my blog today, I came across a post that I wrote this in November 2006, that included these comments on a stu...

Proud to have been invited to participate in a new blog sponsored by the Richmond Times Dispatch, Pundits' Podium.    You can follow th...

To his credit, Governor McDonnell has said that making Virginia the best state for small business as well as the best state in which to do b...

The question whether the Lieutenant Governor can vote on the organization of the Senate is not a political question but is one of constitu...

Virginia General Assembly 2012 Pre-Session Report by Claire Guthrie Gastañaga October 31, 2011 Virginia has a long history of pa...