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Attorney General Mark R. Herring has asked the Virginia Supreme Court to slow down General Assembly Republicans who want to rush a decision in their lawsuit to reverse Gov. Terry McAuliffe’s blanket restoration of civil rights to felons who have served their time.

The attorney general filed a response on Friday to the GOP motion filed earlier this week to seek expedited hearing of the suit against the governor with aim of preventing Virginians whose rights have been restored from voting in the presidential election in November.

The response calls the request to accelerate the schedule to hear the case as early as June 6 unreasonable, especially since Republicans led by House Speaker William J. Howell, R-Stafford, and Senate Majority Leader Thomas K. Norment Jr., R-James City, filed their 50-page brief a month after McAuliffe’s restoration order on April 22.

Herring also challenges the standing of Howell, Norment, and four other Republican voters to file suit to reverse the governor’s order, and argues that the suit cannot succeed in excluding newly registered voters from participating in the election.