Virginia Supreme Court strikes down Democrats’ redistricting plan, dimming party’s midterm hopes

[BlindBoo]

I know why they ruled the way they did which is why I purposefully said it was correct in its effect. The judges didn't nullify a vote; the referendum itself was done illegally so the votes never counted to begin with as they were never certified.

It was ruled unconstitutional after the fact. It was not done illegally. It still expressed the will of the people to create a new district map, and the courts choose to ignore the will of the people. Happens all the time in America.

 

[struth]

It was illegal. Read the ruling. As you do just keep reminding yourself no one is above the law.

Dembots never actually read the Court opinions they often whine about.

It's rather amazing

 

[Delldude]

What did the Republicans do differently in Texas? You have no idea.

Texas did it through the legislature whereas Va went with a voter referendum and violated their own rules.

 

[IDIOCRACY]

As I previously posted numerous times, we no longer have a Supreme Court, we have the legal defense arm of the Republican Party.

Enjoy it while you can fascists.

As you have bolded numerous times, you're a liberal democrat and democrats are cracked.

 

[progressive hunter]

Excellent news. A rare win for democracy. Virginia currently has one of the fairest maps in the country.

dont you mean "a rare win for our republic"??

if we were a democracy this would not have been struck down because it was voted on by the people,,

 

[struth]

It's the Republican way.

Weird, because the Courts found it was the Dems that were trying to cheat....not the GOP

 

[struth]

It was ruled unconstitutional after the fact. It was not done illegally. It still expressed the will of the people to create a new district map, and the courts choose to ignore the will of the people. Happens all the time in America.

How is a Court suppose to rule something is unconstitutional before it's not done?

Do you even understand how any of this works?

 

[MarcATL]

Weird, because the Courts found it was the Dems that were trying to cheat....not the GOP

Rightwing courts found that it was not only acceptable, but legal to have Black slaves at one point in this country.

 

[BlindBoo]

It was illegal. Read the ruling. As you do just keep reminding yourself no one is above the law.

Sorry, champ, it was procedural errors in how the legislators placed the question on the ballot. The voter wanted to answer the GOP mid decade redistrict scheme.

 

[Missouri_Mike]

Sorry, champ, it was procedural errors in how the legislators placed the question on the ballot. The voter wanted to answer the GOP mid decade redistrict scheme.

Procedural error= illegal

 

[BlindBoo]

They didn't violate their state Constitution.

That simple.

The Neo-GOP in Texas would never approve of a commission to draw non partisan districts. Not that I think the Texas Democrats who controlled the state when I arrived would either. The Neo-GOP (or....) is not about fair play. It's all about winning, no matter how dirty they have to get.

 

[citygator]

citygator your "any day now" has come.....and once again the rule of law won over your illegal attempts to seize power.

Yep. I was wrong AND right. They just ruled against them for the midterm because of the timing. Has no bearing on the actual redistricting. They are good for 2028.

Lesson for democrats: Do not constrain your politicians from taking votes from citizens because the red states wont restrict themselves.

 

[IDIOCRACY]

This is shameful. Republicans are doing everything they can to stop what might be a total removal of Republicans from both houses. So it looks like it will be up to the voters.

You ever say anything you actually believe?

 

[marvin martian]

As I previously posted numerous times, we no longer have a Supreme Court, we have the legal defense arm of the Republican Party.

Enjoy it while you can fascists.

This was the VIRGINIA supreme court, you f*cking imbecile.

 

[WEATHER53]

You ever say anything you actually believe?

He does not have to
He has moderator backing likely due to financial contribution

 

[Dekster]

It was ruled unconstitutional after the fact. It was not done illegally. It still expressed the will of the people to create a new district map, and the courts choose to ignore the will of the people. Happens all the time in America.

It was ruled unconstitutional "after the fact" because the same supreme court had sided with the democrats when they argued previously that the VA supreme court couldn't rule on the case before a vote was held. You really should read the actual opinion https://www.vacourts.gov/static/opinions/opnscvwp/1260127.pdf

 

[BlindBoo]

Procedural error= illegal

When do they get charged with a crime and what statute did they violate?

 

[PeanutGallery]

What did the Republicans do differently in Texas? You have no idea.

There is no difference between what the Republican in TX did and what the Democrats in VA did.

Then the Virginia democrats can go the Texas route and deal with it in Federal Court and eventually, the Supreme Court.
I could argue that the Texas case could be seen as a precursor to the SC decision on the VRC.

The district court ruling that the Supreme Court reversed had found that race played too large a role in drawing the map and ordered Texas to revert to older districts. But the Supreme Court’s December stay signaled skepticism of that reasoning, citing both the alternative-map issue and concerns about federal court interference in an active election cycle under established legal principles. LINK

 

[Edgetho]

Democrats spent north of $80 million on the Virginia referendum.

Almost half of it came from Hakeem Jeffries' personal 501(c)4, House Majority Forward.

Louise Lucas, Don Scott, and Abigail Spanberger exerted so much of their political capital to get it passed.

All to be stuffed into a locker by SCOVA for the blatantly unconstitutional way they got it on the ballot.

dimocraps are scum

 

[Independent thinker]

Excellent news. A rare win for democracy. Virginia currently has one of the fairest maps in the country.

Republicans always had the advantage with recent gerrymandering because they had a lot they could gerrymander while democrats had already gerrymandered most of their states almost as much as they could.

I'd actually be all for tearing up the entire US House system and starting all over again from scratch with all 50 states to draw fair boundaries in every state, or, come up with a different system altogether whereas if one party has 40% voters of one party, then that party gets 40% of that state's US House seats. Maybe somehow or other districts and their maps could be eliminated altogether and you just have representation based on percentages of the parties, including third parties.