Virginia Supreme Court Strikes Down Democrats’ Redrawn US House Maps

APNews.com:

The Virginia Supreme Court on Friday struck down a voter-approved Democratic congressional redistricting plan, 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.

Putting aside the giddiness that Democrats and the mainstream media showed when this redistricting plan first passed on the Virginia ballot last week, there’s also a sense of political karma at play here. After all, newly elected Virginia governor Abigail Spanberger (who presented herself to voters on the campaign trail as a “moderate Democrat” despite governing from the far left) knowingly violated the Virginia Constitution in an effort to disenfranchise millions of Republican voters in her state. An obnoxious and deceitful plan designed to do whatever it took to help Democrats retake the House in November. Instead, thanks to this ruling, the Constitution prevailed, and Spanberger gets handed a deeply humiliating defeat..

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Supreme Court Strikes Down Louisiana's Majority-Black District as Racial GerryMander

APNews.com:

The Supreme Court on Wednesday struck down Louisiana’s second majority Black congressional district in a decision that could open the door for Republican-led states to eliminate Black and Latino electoral districts that tend to favor Democrats and affect the balance of power in Congress. 

 

In a 6-3 ruling, the court’s conservative majority found that the district, represented by Democrat Cleo Fields, relied too heavily on race. Chief Justice John Roberts had described the district as a “snake” that stretches more than 200 miles (320 kilometers) to link parts of the Shreveport, Alexandria, Lafayette and Baton Rouge areas. 

 

The Rev. Al Sharpton, president of the National Action Network, called the decision a “bullet in the heart of the voting rights movement.”

Liberal media outlets, Democrats and the usual professional race-baiters (like Al Sharpton) on the Left will argue that this ruling by SCOTUS 'weakens' the Voters Rights Act, but what it actually does is make it more strict. Indeed, Justice Alito’s interpretation of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act raises the standard for justifying race-based redistricting. Alito argues that such measures are only constitutional if they directly remedy intentional discrimination, not simply to enhance minority representation. To the Left's severe disappointment, this shifts the burden onto proponents to prove minorities lacked meaningful participation in prior redistricting—something increasingly difficult given modern political realities. With significant minority representation now common in state legislatures, Alito contends that the original need for race-based remedies has largely faded. As a result, Section 2 remains valid, but is limited to rare, extreme cases. His reasoning parallels the Court’s approach to affirmative action, emphasizing that eliminating racial discrimination requires ending race-based decision-making altogether.

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Judge Rules Virginia Gerrymandering Vote Unconstitutional

BBC.com:

A Virginia judge on Wednesday paused the certification of referendum results that would lead to redrawing the state's congressional map. 

 

Virginians approved a measure on Tuesday to change district lines, possibly helping Democrats win control of the US House of Representatives in the midterm elections. 

 

The court deemed the new map and the bill that triggered it unconstitutional, following a lawsuit from the Republican National Committee. The state has said it will appeal.

The only goal of the Democrats, should they take back back the House in November, is to impeach Trump/ Everybody knows this and from Barack Obama to the lying scumbag that is VA Governor Abigail Spanberger to Hakeem Jeffries, they have been very open about it--which makes this gerrymandering move even more wrong. Not just because, as the judge states here it goes against the VA Constitution, but also becasue Democrats shouldn't have to rely on redistricting to win. But for a party that only talks about their sheer hatred for everything Trump (instead of Medicare 4 All, raising the federal minimum wage, fighting crime, etc.) Democrats would rather engage in scorched-earth tactics, lose the moral high ground and undermine our political system than work on an agenda that speaks to working-class voters.

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Supreme Court Hands Trump Victory in Fight Over Texas Congressional Map

TheHill.com:

The Supreme Court revived Texas’s congressional map that sparked a mid-decade redistricting war by adding up to five Republican pickup opportunities, paving the way Thursday for it to be used for the midterm elections as litigation proceeds. 

 

Over the dissents of the court’s three liberal justices, the majority said a lower court likely erred when invalidating the map as a likely racial gerrymander. “The District Court improperly inserted itself into an active primary campaign, causing much confusion and upsetting the delicate federal-state balance in elections,” the unsigned ruling reads. 

 

It is not the high court’s final word, but it enables Texas to move ahead to its March primary under the new map as the state continues its appeal. In dissent, Justice Elena Kagan chastised her colleagues for intervening “based on its perusal, over a holiday weekend, of a cold paper record.”

Huge win for the GOP and Trump who's desperate when it comes to keeping the House in the second half of his term. Otherwise, if Democrats take back the lower chamber, they'll find any reason to impeach him.

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