VA Court Gives GOP Huge Gift In Redistricting Fight For House
On Friday, the Virginia Supreme Court struck down a voter-approved amendment redrawing its voting districts.
“The decision means that Republicans will likely net seats in the nationwide gerrymandering battle,” Politico explained. “In a maximalist scenario, Republicans could net more than 10 seats from redrawn lines alone — with several Southern states in the midst of redrawing their own districts following a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision that gutted much of the Voting Rights Act.”
To put it in plain English, Republicans just further rigged the vote to maintain their grip on power because they know they and their policies are very unpopular.
I’m not a lawyer, but AP explained the grounds for overruling the will of Virginians this way: “The court ruled that the state’s Democratic-led legislature violated procedural requirements when it placed the constitutional amendment on the ballot to authorize the mid-decade redistricting.”
