My friend, Virginia lawyer Ben Glass, has written about the recent (and ridiculous) Virginia laws that charge bad drivers enormous fines. Besides the outrage from drivers being fined literally thousands of dollars for minor traffic violations, there now exists the very real possibility that hundreds of thousands of drivers could have their licenses suspended for inability to pay the fines.
The latest development is that the Legislature was going to try to just order the courts not to collect the fines. Oops — there happens to be a 130-year-old state law that prohibits lawmakers doing that. So back to the drawing board…
