Virginia won’t appeal ruling tossing ‘habitual drunkard’ law

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia’s attorney general has decided not to appeal a ruling that struck down a state law allowing police to arrest and jail people designated as “habitual drunkards.”
Mark Herring said Friday that he will not appeal the ruling last month by the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
In a statement, Herring called the law “strange and regressive” and said Virginia’s General Assembly should have taken it off the books a long time ago. H