Virginia judge stays certification of redistricting vote

[Zincwarrior]

You are probably confusing me with golfinggator? When I first started here my pic was Indiana Jones but since folks confused me with Joe, cuz people are stupid, I changed to a Gator logo. Golfinggator also used a different gator. Ya’ll be stupid.

60 year olds acting tough online. You crack me up old man. Come on down to Charlotte!

Weather is a bot.

 

[citygator]

 

[WEATHER53]

Weather is a bot.

One screen name only and one person only. Dismissive deflection defeated

 

[citygator]

 

[Zincwarrior]

One screen name only and one person only. Dismissive deflection defeated

Ok Comrade.

 

[WEATHER53]

Ok Comrade.

The kiddies love to name call and color in the Nazi Hitler snd Ruskie shit

 

[Zincwarrior]

The kiddies love to name call and color in the Nazi Hitler snd Ruskie shit

Ok Comrade

 

[skews13]

We shall see.

Whether it does or not is irrelevant. Democrats are going to win the House back in November. That's a given. The only question is will they win the Senate also. The four extra seats Virginia could net is just a run up of the numbers.

 

[Concerned American]

The kiddies love to name call and color in the Nazi Hitler snd Ruskie shit

That child likes boomer too. LOL

 

[Blaster]

Will be overturned by tomorrow.

No

 

[1srelluc]

Strike 1

Tazewell County Circuit Court Judge Jack Hurley, Jr. concurred that the General Assembly did expand the scope of the 2024 Special Session, ruling that “the first passage of the proposed constitutional amendment is void ab initio,” or from the beginning.

Strike 2

Next, the court ruled that the “next general election of members of the House of Delegates” had already begun, with early voting starting on September 19, 2025. Over one million Virginians had already cast ballots by the time of the General Assembly’s first passage on October 31.


Strike 3

The court decided that, “Even if the General Assembly’s first passage…were valid and even if ‘election’ is defined narrowly as only Election Day and not the entire period of voting,” the General Assembly still failed to provide copies of the amendment to “every circuit court clerk to post at the front door of the courthouse at least three months prior” to the next general election (which had already begun).

Strike 4

Regarding the text of the proposal on the ballot argued in the second case, Judge Hurley wrote that the ballot language was misleading and violated the Submission Clause of Article XII, Section 1 of the Virginia Constitution. “It submits a different question on the referendum ballot than the language of the constitutional amendment passed by the General Assembly.

Strike 5

The Virginia Constitution also requires the proposed amendment to be presented to voters “not sooner than ninety days after final passage by the General Assembly.” If that final passage was, in fact, on January 16, 2026, then the 90-day requirement was not fulfilled before early voting began on March 6, 2026.

Strike 6

The court determined that HB 1384 violated Article IV, Section 12 of the Virginia Constitution by passing a bill that “embrace more than one object.” In this case, the bill not only proposes the constitutional amendment; it also addresses, “providing for appropriations of public revenues,” “establishing the ballot question and procedures for submitting the proposed constitutional amendment to the voters,” “repealing Code § 30-13,” and “transferring venue to the Richmond Circuit Court for civil actions challenging the proposed constitutional amendment.”

BTW....Sen. Tim Kaine on FOX News last weekend said the quiet part out loud. This amendment isn’t about “restoring fairness.” It is about combatting President Trump’s mandate from the 2024 election.

Kaine said, “We’re deeply worried that Donald Trump will try to interfere with the election results this November or in 2028 because we saw him do it before. And we have to have a Congress that will stand up to it.

Will sanity prevail, I doubt it, but at least we will not stand down without a fight.