"I'm afraid that they'll find something else so felons can't have their rights."

Jennifer McDaniel got a letter on August 4 that broke her heart. Signed by Edgardo Cortés, the commissioner of the Virginia Department of Elections, it read, "This letter is to inform you that your voter registration has been canceled in compliance with a court order issued by the Supreme Court of Virginia on July 22, 2016."

"It was like a punch in the gut," she says. "It was like a smack in the face. And I cried."

McDaniel, who has a years-old felony conviction related to shoplifting, had celebrated in April, when Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe issued an executive order restoring civil rights for about 206,000 people with felony convictions (under certain conditions). McDaniel joined nearly 13,000 others and registered to vote as a result of that executive order, but state Republicans successfully challenged the order and persuaded the state Supreme Court to throw it out on the grounds that McAuliffe didn't have the power to restore civil rights to an entire group of people. Now she is one of nearly 13,000 Virginians whose voter registrations were nullified by the state's Supreme Court in July. The court ruled McAuliffe would have to approve each case individually.

Read the rest of this article and view some very interesting videos with Former US Attorney General Eric Holder, Julie Fernandes, former deputy assistant attorney general for civil rights at the Department of Justice and now an advocacy director with the Open Society Foundations, and Hans von Spakovsky, a senior legal fellow at the Heritage Foundation here.