At the core of a new Bedford County-based lawsuit challenging Virginia’s pending reproductive rights amendment is an allegation that House of Delegates Clerk Paul Nardo failed to send copies of the amendment to circuit court clerks around the state, as required by law. However, a bill Gov. Abigail Spanberger signed last month retroactively removed that part of state code.
“Passing an ex post facto law, I think, is wrong on its face,” House Minority Leader Terry Kilgore, R-Scott, said when the legislature passed House Bill 1384 in late January.
Bedford County supervisor files suit challenging reproductive rights constitutional amendment…