There were many reasons for it to be killed, starting with it being unconstitutional
You knew that the minute this was passed there would be lawsuits
(Fox News) Virginia Circuit Court Judge Jack Hurley ruled Wednesday, one day after the Democrat redistricting referendum passed, that all votes for or against the proposed redistricting amendment were unconstitutional, citing rules that impose certain requirements that the referendum did not meet.
There are a handful of cases making their way through the Virginia court system challenging various aspects of the referendum, including the one Hurley ruled on Wednesday.
“The Tazewell Circuit Court just ruled the referendum unconstitutional. The Judge entered an injunction blocking certification of the election & denied a motion to stay pending appeal. A final order will be entered once drafted, & it will be immediately appealed,” former Republican Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli said on X after Hurley’s ruling.
Cuccinelli, who heads the American Principles Project Election Transparency Initiative, indicated Wednesday there are four constitutional challenges to the referendum making their way through the courts, three of which are challenges to the amendment process itself.
The whole process bypassed the actual Virginia Constitution, so, it will be interesting to see what happens when this gets to the Va Supreme Court, and then possibly beyond that to federal courts.
Democrats’ Virginia Gerrymander is GOP’s Sign to Play Hardball
On Tuesday, Virginia voters approved a constitutional amendment that will allow Democrats to draw new maps, handing them control of 10 of 11 U.S. House seats in a state that Kamala Harris won by just five points in 2024. The result should be a shock to the senses for Republicans nationwide that it’s time to get serious about redistricting – starting with a push in Florida next week. (big snip)
But while a post-mortem of this specific election is perhaps in order, Republicans’ biggest takeaway should be that Democrats are willing to be as ruthless as necessary – even violate the law – in pursuit of power. Republicans’ only option is to respond with similar determination.
Yeah, well, good luck with that. The vast majority of them have failed to learn this lesson for the better part of this century. They’ve wanted to be comrades and The Adults In The Room, reasonable, all while Democrats have gotten more and more vicious. Republicans “don’t want to play that game.” There are too many who go Squish. They do not learn.
The right-wing reactionary judge presides over the 29th circuit of VA next to the KY border represents just over 1% of the VA population. He has temporarily overturned the will of Virginian voters.
(Missouri Rethuglicans do that all the time here, just ignoring amendments and initiatves, etc). More than 58% of voters, through an initiative petition, passed a measure last November that would allow Missouri workers to accrue paid sick leave. Although the MO Supreme Court backed the sick leave initiative, the MO Senate and Gov killed it. 52% of MO voters approved a constitutional amendment reinstating the right to access abortion, the legislature passed an amendment with disguised language to be put on the ballot in 2026 to once again ban abortion. In August 2020, voters approved an amendment for Medicaid expansion. In March of the following year, the legislature voted down funding. There are several more examples.
The GOPhers opened up a can o’ worms when they decided to rig the mid-terms, but it turned into a can o’ whup-ass when the weak Dems pushed back.
Do we need a new Amendment specifying that each state must use an independent, non-partisan committee for determining districts? Shouldn’t the representation closely match the GOP-Dem divide in each state?
GOPhers are exceptionally creative at rigging state legislatures.
Missouri House: Republicans: 106 Democrats: 52 (67% GOP)
Senate: Republicans: 23 Democrats: 9 (72% GOP)
Governor: GOP
The recent gerrymandered MO U.S. House districts replaces the 6 GOP to 2 Dems with 7 GOP to 1 Dem. They gerrymandered away representation for the Kansas City area!
Yet, MO is around 55% Repub, 45% Democracy…
The 80% of Americans in urban areas are ruled by the 20% in rural America!!
The GOP is destroying American democracy.
Of course the little retard is wrong again.
Our disappointed Democrat wrote:
Hasn’t our outraged Ozarkian celebrated every time a judge somewhere tried to frustrate the will of the voters when it comes to apprehending and deporting all of the illegal immigrants?
In the 2024 presidential election, Preesident Trump received 41.89% of the vote in Connecticut, and 36.02% of the vote in Massachusetts, yet in the 14 congressional districts between them, there are none represented by Republicans.
In the 2020 presidential election, Joe Biden carried Pennsylvania overall by 80,555 votes, but only because he carried foul, fetid, fuming, foggy, filthy Philadelphia by 460,000! Looks to me like the desires of 66 of the 67 counties in the Keystone state were subjugated to the votes of Philadelphians.
The Kentucky General Assembly has an 81-19 Republican advantage in the House, and 31-7 GOP advantage in the Senate. In the 2024 election, President Trump won 64.5% of the vote, carrying 118 out of 120 counties; he lost only Louisville/Jefferson County and Lexington/Fayette County.
It’s simple: Democratic votes are heavily concentrated in geographically small areas, a natural ‘gerrymander’ where the sensible people are spread out across that state and the idiots highly concentrated in a couple of cities.
Of course, it’s also true that the Democrats don’t choose to field candidates in many state House districts. Yet the Bluegrass State was the last Southern state to have a state legislative chamber controlled by Democrats, the state House up until the 2016 elections overturned that, in districts which had been set by the Democratic majority following the 2010 census.
We have geographical districts in this country, not proportional representation. The problem for you is that too many malingerers and welfare recipients are concentrated in too small areas. How do you construct districts when you have dense neighborhoods voting 80% Democratic, as well as some small counties voting 80% Republican? If the Democrats ran candidates who appealed to normal people, maybe they’d do better outside of the cities.
The regressive Republican repeats the MAGA fantasy that acreage should be represented, not people. We believe in democracy whereas MAGAts do not.
People vote. Acreage does not. We fully understand that our regressive Republican, a white christian nationalist, does not consider black Americans equal to white men.
He spreads the disinformation that urban areas (80% of Americans) are overpopulated with “malingerers and welfare recipients” (we know what he means), while ignoring the conditions in red state rural (20%) America.
For example urban hospitals need little government assistance while rural healthcare would be even more abysmal with welfare. Red states are supported by the blue states.
These states each receive at least $20 BILLION MORE than they pay in federal taxes…
Alabama
South Carolina
New Mexico
Mississippi
Arizona
Michigan
Louisiana
Kentucky
Pennsylvania
Maryland
West Virginia
Oregon
Oklahoma
Combined, CA and NY pay nearly $400 BILLION MORE than they receive, supporting several red states!!
So why are urban areas more liberal than rural areas?
Cities are more liberal primarily due to high population density, which fosters diversity, tolerance, and exposure to different cultures.
Urban areas concentrate educated professionals, knowledge-based industries, and younger populations, all of which statistically align with liberal ideologies.
Additionally, dense living requires, and supports, more robust government services, social infrastructure, and public infrastructure.
This urban-rural divide is not uniform across the United States, with some regions being strongly Democratic (i.e. New England) or strongly Republican (i.e. the Upland South) in both urban and rural areas. Also, rural majority-Black counties vote Democratic.
Radical right republican judge trying to over rule the will and vote of the people of Virginia !!
Judge is trying to destroy the Commonwealth of Virginia
Johnny-“destroy Virginia”. At least you’re not a drama queen..
Funny-suddenly the libs don’t like activist judges..
Johnny-is Virginia “destroyed” right now? Because if this judge’s ruling holds up, the Virginia map would be the same as it is today. So what are you talking about?
Sadly, the Commonwealth of Virginia has been destroyed by the huge number of federal government bureaucrats who have metastasized into the DC burbs. Once we get rid of all the illegals, and drastically reduce the size of the federal workforce, and that the displaced bureaucrats have to take private sector jobs or starve, we’ll be much better off.