President Biden used his clemency power today, his last full day of presidency, to pardon 5 individuals, and commute the ...

Del. Don Scott (D-Portsmouth), the first Black person to serve as speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates, was convicted ...

On his last full day in the White House President Joe Biden pardoned Virginia House Speaker Don Scott, D-Portsmouth, who ...

Lawmakers in the Virginia House of Delegates passed resolutions on Tuesday enshrining rights to abortion, voting and marriage ...

In 2024, he made history as the first Black Speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates. Portsmouth’s Don Scott now Virginia’s first Black Speaker of House Biden’s statement noted that Scott ...

The House of Delegates seat that should have gone to Joseph de Soto has now been filled. West Virginia Governor Patrick Morrisey appointed Ian Masters to the Berkeley ...

moved to Virginia and decided to take the state bar exam in 2014. He opened his law office in Portsmouth in 2016 and was elected to the House of Delegates in 2019. With a quick wit and sharp ...

Virginia House Speaker Don Scott was pardoned Sunday by President Joe Biden for a felony drug conviction Scott received in ...

An emotional General Assembly gathering to remember the 100 Black Virginians served in the Virginia General Assembly from the late 1870s to 1890 and in the 1867 constitutional convention.