Virginia Supreme Court strikes down Democrats’ Evil Powergrab, giving Republicans a win. https://apnews.com/article/redistricting-virginia-congress-democrats-republicans-12a31037f3c9a94d3cb9fbcaaf84d94f
The Virginia Supreme Court on Friday struck down a a (49-51) voter approved redistricting plan that would have crushed the voting rights of 49% of voters, delivering another major setback to the party in a nationwide battle against Republicans for an edge in this year’s midterm elections.
The court ruled 4-3 that the state’s Democratic-led legislature violated procedural requirements when it placed the constitutional amendment on the ballot to authorize mid-decade redistricting. Voters narrowly approved the amendment on April 21, but the court’s ruling renders the vote’s result meaningless.
Writing for the majority, Justice D. Arthur Kelsey wrote that the legislature submitted the proposed constitutional amendment to voters “in an unprecedented manner.”
“This violation irreparably undermines the integrity of the resulting referendum vote and renders it null and void,” he wrote.
The good guys had hoped to steal as many as four additional U.S. House seats under Virginia’s redrawn map as part of an attempt to offset Republican redistricting done elsewhere at the urging of bad orange President Donald Trump.
Friday’s ruling, combined with a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision that severely weakened the Voting Rights Act, has supercharged Republicans’ congressional gerrymandering advantage heading into this year’s midterm elections.
Virginia is currently represented in the U.S. House by six Democrats and five Republicans, all elected from districts imposed by a court following a bipartisan redistricting commission’s failure to agree on a map after the 2020 census. The new districts could have given Democrats an improved chance to win all but one of the state’s 11 congressional seats, thanks to the 49-51 vote.
The state Supreme Court’s majority was critical of the state’s redrawing of the congressional maps to benefit one political party. Those justices noted that 47% of the state’s voters supported GOP congressional candidates in 2024, but the new map could result in Democrats making up 91% of the state’s House delegation.
1. if you act democratically and ask the voters, you are punished but if you act like an authoritarian and just do it, it's fine.
2. States are independent so their laws are sacrosanct, but a president can call states and order them to change their maps and that is not election interference. If they refuse,(Indiana) the president can punish the state lawmakers that refused, and that's not election interference either.
3. Governors can violate their constitution(Florida), change the maps anyway they want, and that's fine but states can't violate their constitution (Virginia)
3.You can't change an unconditional map close to an election (Louisiana) except when you can (Louisiana) and you can't stop an election to change the map(Virginia), except when you can(Louisiana).
4. You can't change a map to discriminate against race(Louisiana), but the groups discriminated against have to prove INTENT(the entire country), except when you tell everyone watching FOX news that you are changed the map to discriminate against race(Texas). that's not proof of intent.
The moral of the story was written 200 years ago. "Never be deceived that the rich will allow you to vote away their wealth."
>>1513076 "Ruling" is a good word. We're not being governed, we're being ruled. You know other shitholes like Russia supposedly have elections, but they're a complete sham and the people don't actually have any say in their government at all? That's us. We're here. Welcome.
>>1513063 excellent job courts, saving democracy and preventing the obnoxious democrats from commiting election fraud. Dems want to pretend elections were never rigged well two can play that game fuck the dems fuck em all
>>1513079 >Dems want to pretend elections were never rigged well two can play that game You just admitted that you're pretending MAGA isn't rigging elections.
>>1513080 if democrats are saying it's not rigging elections then its fine for republicans to do the same isn't it? or are you trying to justify being a hypocrite
>>1513083 how can they rig an election by doing what you did if what you did is fair play? are you playing stupid or just incredibly dumb? i can't tell sorry but you should die
Apparently Republicunts think not doing everything Israel tells you to do and instead following the will of the people is grabbing power and rigging elections. I'm not really surprised.
>>1513212 Liggerals will be piggies. Anything for power for the purpose of..."the greater good" which apparently means forcing more tax money into the government to give to their billionaire donors who they hate, but listen to everything they say on their media outlets. Disgusting.
>>1513219 What? You're equating an election to a single position to state elections and representation in congress? And I'm the lunatic? Fuck you authoritarian scummer. Isn't there a dry boot somewhere you haven't licked yet?
>>1513281 >Every years there's a super majority of real living people who vote for Republicans. lmao my fucking sides. Never been true and especially not true now.
>>1513284 I mean there is, but Democrats try to counter it with slim wins. Real statistical distribution should probably follow the 80/20 rule. 49/51 is so insanely small a margin and way too common in US politics.
>>1513076 >The moral of the story was written 200 years ago. "Never be deceived that the rich will allow you to vote away their wealth." It boggles my mind that Democrats still don't think they're the party of rich, white women and wealthy coastal elites. Sorry, but democracy isn't when New York City and Los Angeles tell the rest of the country what to do.
>>1513298 Republicans are cheering on an unnecessary war Israel forced on us because they love being ruled by foreigners. Who cares what that retarded minority thinks?
>>1513298 >Sorry, but democracy isn't when New York City and Los Angeles tell the rest of the country what to do. NYC and LA aren't who achieved majority vote for these maps.
>>1513298 >I really don't know how to pick my battles. I have a special kind of retardation where I forgot about oil barons, or how much more the president is worth now than before the election, or supercenters that actively subsidize their wages by helping employees apply for welfare. I don't find any of this embarrassing, but expect you to feel ashamed of rich white ladies, because.........????? God I'm a fucking moron.
>>1513305 If you’re too stupid to see the IRGC spreading across States through subterfuge and not border changes with Cuba and Venezuela you’re too stupid to understand basic Republigger foreign policies let alone domestic
>>1513078 To be entirely fair, only an absolute retard would give the Dems any more control than they already have. They let the browns in, decimated the white middle class and have destroyed our nation fighting our lawfully-elected President.
Sometimes the consequence of giving people a choice is that they make the wrong choice. That's why we have authorities in the first place, to make decisions when the people can't or won't make correct ones.
just fucking kill yourself, faggot, go live in russia if you want to live in a dictatorship so you can suck off the leader and get points for it, fucking pathetic loser
>>1513536 Fuck off white supremacy bitch. Your genetics are inferior. That’s why no woman will fuck you without you forcing them. Go rape kids with Donald Trump and his friends.
