Virginia Readmission Act Litigation
Protect Democracy has filed a lawsuit in federal court challenging the Virginia Constitution’s broad felony disenfranchisement provision.
October 11, 2023
JoAnna Suriani
Counsel
JoAnna Suriani is a counsel at Protect Democracy, where she currently focuses on building a broad pro-democracy coalition to push back on executive overreach, protect separation of powers, and respond to attacks on the judiciary. Before joining Protect Democracy, she worked as a litigation associate at a large international law firm, where she represented companies and pro bono clients at the trial and appellate levels. JoAnna received a J.D. from NYU School of Law, a Master of Public Policy from the Maryland School of Public Policy, and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Maryland.
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JoAnna Suriani, counsel at Protect Democracy and co-counsel in the San Marcos case, notes that the provision of the Ku Klux Act used to bring the lawsuit does not apply only to government actors. “It creates legal liability for any individual who is in the position to prevent the harms of election-related violence, but negligently or intentionally fails to do so,” she says.
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