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🚨BREAKING: VIRGINIA COURT WILL HEAR STATE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT CASE: Tazewell Judge Clears Hearing on Abortion Amendment Nov. 13; FFLC Challenges Marriage Repeal Amendment Both lawsuits seek the courts to invalidate the proposed amendments if they pass on Nov. 3, on the basis that they did not satisfy constitutional requirements. The Tazewell Circuit Court has denied the Commonwealth’s motions seeking to prevent a post-election hearing in a lawsuit brought by Founding Freedom Law Center (FFLC) challenging Virginia’s proposed abortion amendment. If voters approve the amendment November 3, the court is scheduled to hear legal arguments November 13 before Judge Hurley. Representing the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, Virginia Medical Freedom Alliance, and Meagan Kade, FFLC seeks a preliminary injunction to prevent certification of the election results. The lawsuit alleges constitutional procedural defects and misleading ballot language. Read more about the abortion amendment challenge: foundingfreedomslaw.org/news… “We are excited for the opportunity to get into court right after the election, if necessary. Not only would this proposed abortion amendment be a disaster for policy reasons, but it would undermine trust in our democratic processes because of the flawed and deceptive means by which it will have passed. We cannot allow that to happen.” — Josh Hetzler, Executive Director of FFLC PRINCE WILLIAM, Va. — The Founding Freedoms Law Center (FFLC) also filed a lawsuit last week on behalf of Pastor Ben Purves challenging Virginia’s proposed marriage amendment on procedural grounds. The marriage amendment complaint alleges the same procedural defect raised in the abortion amendment case: failure by the House Clerk to send, and local clerks to post, copies of proposed amendment language at local courthouses before the intervening 2025 election. Pastor Purves organized an open letter from Virginia pastors opposing both amendments; more than 400 pastors have signed. “When we fought to pass the original Marriage Amendment two decades ago, we made sure the Constitution was amended the right way, according to law. If it’s now going to be changed, it must again be amended the right way.” — Victoria Cobb, President, Founding Freedoms Law Center About Founding Freedoms Law Center Founding Freedoms Law Center is a Richmond-based nonprofit legal organization and the legal arm of The Family Foundation. FFLC defends religious liberty, parental rights, free speech, and the sanctity of life in Virginia’s courts and before its public institutions. Learn more at foundingfreedomslaw.org.