The fairly conservative Virginia Supreme Court overturned the will of the voters Friday, dealing Democrats a huge setback in the redistricting arms race.
Writing that the legislative process to advance the redistricting proposal violated the state constitution, the court ruled that “this constitutional violation incurably taints the resulting referendum vote and nullifies its legal efficacy.” Virginia voters had passed the referendum with about 52% of the vote in late April.
Meanwhile, unleashed by Callais and urged onward by President Trump, southern states are racing to eliminate their majority-Black, majority-Democratic districts before the midterms. Tennessee was first out of the gate, though its new 9-0 Republican map has already drawn a legal challenge from the NAACP.
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I hope when the Democrats win in November they enact an new Civil Rights bill for the entire nation.
The presence of a single non-white person (excepting the handful of self-hating tokens) in the halls of Congress is an existential crisis for these bigoted scumbags. Next up: the authors of the 19th amendment clearly intended it to bar women from voting for or holding public office.
An Appeal to Heaven, perhaps.
How are all these States going to pay for these additional elections and redistricting efforts?
Raise taxes?
Cut funding for Public Schools?
Never mind…
Well, they’ll have to be creative, and perhaps look to the past.
Perhaps a small fee to fund the God-given right to cast a vote? As a measure of freedom, of course. What righteous American could be against that?