@Philip_Huff I seriously doubt that the Supreme Court of the United States would decide that 150 years of precedent are void. I'm just saying that that's the argument.
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Christopher Blough
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@RelicCcb I don’t see how it could be unconstitutional; more importantly, it’s far too late in the day for this to be considered an open question.
It would be like calling into question the validity of the ratification of the 14th amendment.
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We all agree that Virginia would have to consent for this to take place, right?
I don’t see Virginia consenting, so this seems like a waste of time.
Congressman Rich McCormick, MBA MD@RepMcCormick
DC Bureaucrats hijacked Virginia… but we will restore it. Arlington and Alexandria were always meant to be a part of DC. That’s why I introduced the Make DC Square Again Act, because it’s a simple concept: DC = 🟥
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@micah_erfan Now explain Illinois, California, and New England.
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Republicans just brutally gerrymandered Texas, North Carolina, Ohio, and Missouri.
Not a single resident got a vote on it.
Now Democrats proportionally respond with the backing of a vote of the people, and you whine? Spare us.
Marc Thiessen 🇺🇸❤️🇺🇦🇹🇼🇮🇱@marcthiessen
Spare me. 50.7% of the electorate voted to give themselves 90.1% of congressional seats and disenfranchise nearly half the state.
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"we need to stop letting the majority make decisions"
Yeah that attitude is why this is happening
Whatevs@_Papa_Joe_
We need an electoral college at the state level or something. 1 vote per county, and 2 or 3 for the counties with the population centers or something. The fact that this passed looking at this map is ridiculous.
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@DelJessAnderson @Troll_Troll4Fun @vademocrats Republicans have already won their first case, decisively.
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@Troll_Troll4Fun @vademocrats Nope, no one is above the law, but it appears republicans, and their lawyers, are not very good at reading and understanding the law.
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Fun fact, when democrats lose elections we plan for the next election. When republicans lose, they sue, and then lose again. If you want to be mad about the tax money being spent perhaps direct your attention to the republicans who brought this case forward.
Jay Bee@TheRealJBx
Virginia AG Jay Jones is using outside counsel to defend the gerrymandering case at the VA Supreme Court… at the taxpayers expense.
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@mattyglesias Every person is this thread who supported Joe Biden should just GTFO.
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If you take the TDS glasses off, he clearly meant Biden rather than Obama and JetBlue rather than People Express, and then you’re left with the fact that the elderly president’s memory is failing him somewhat in a normal way for a person of his age.
James Surowiecki@JamesSurowiecki
Trump says that Obama, who left office in 2017, blocked a merger between People Express (which went out of business in 1987) and Spirit Airlines in 2024.
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@JamesAbrenio Tou voted to disenfranchise half the state. There's no justification for that. You are the enemy.
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@RelicCcb In life, if you take stances for what you believe in, you’re gonna cause people to hate you. Clearly we don’t agree on politics. But if you don’t consider us neighbors and you consider me an enemy, that’s your choice, not mine.
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I grew up in Grundy. Went to high school in Richmond, college in cville, and now live in fairfax. It’s all Virginia.
Wren Williams@WrenWilliamsVA
I still think it's funny that no one calls Northern Virginia "Virginia."
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@BarackObama Just like how you hope we'll all forget about your abject hypocrisy on gerrymandering, right?
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Hope isn’t blind optimism — it arises in the face of uncertainty. If you look at our history, we’ve gone through some rough patches. But we tend to come out on the other side of them stronger than before.
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@ltgovhashmi Sure. That's why you just literally disenfranchised half the state, right?
Sic Semper Tyrannis
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🧵 (1/2) Despite what Senate Republicans stated during Session today, rural Virginia is not forgotten by Democrats. I have been fighting for economic development, education opportunities, healthcare access, and natural resource protection.
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@samshirazim Bullshit. They put an unconstitutionally vague question on the ballot after ignoring both constitutional and statutory requirements for how amendments are introduced. And now they're going to get slapped down in VA court.
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On one hand, Dems compiled with big picture requirements of Virginia Constitution
On other hand, there are specific decisions like holding vote right before election and ballot language
Lower court focused on decisions
We’ll see if VA Supreme Court looks at overall process
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Legal issues often come down to framing
There are technical legal ?s in Virginia redistricting
But majorities in General Assembly approved referendum twice
Then majority of voters approved it
Does VA Supreme Court focus on big picture or the details?
That might decide case
Eliza Orlins@elizaorlins
I read the full court order on Virginia's redistricting. A judge didn't pause the vote. He declared it void from the beginning—seven independent constitutional violations. Everyone is either celebrating or panicking. Almost nobody has read the order. I did. Full breakdown below:
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@Sydney_Webb1 @micah_erfan No, because that never happened.
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@micah_erfan Remember when Democrats tried to make gerrymandering illegal and Republicans shut it down?
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There are 12 red states with 0 Democratic Seats.
There are only 9 blue states with 0 Republican Seats.
Even by your own metric, your party gerrymanders more.
Benny Johnson@bennyjohnson
Republican voters make up 40% of New England. Democrats control the district lines. Result: 🔴 — 0 🔵 — 27
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@VoteHub Widely expected to be upheld by who? Wishcasting lefties?
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@ChrisCillizza So is the Massachusetts map. So is the Illinois map. So is the California map. Stop being a sleazy partisan.
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The Virginia map is ridiculous
But so is the Texas map
Just cutting off noses to spite faces everywhere these days
Aaron Rupar@atrupar
Rep. Chip Roy: "We need the Virginia Supreme Court to save us by striking down this ridiculous redistricting map"
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@vikingben02 @swd2 Bullshit. The ballot language was misleading, and the referendum is going to get tossed.
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The Virginia Supreme Court allowed this vote to take place. Hard to see them now coming out and nullifying the will of the people. This one Republican hack circuit judge will lose.
MeidasTouch@MeidasTouch
BREAKING: A Republican-appointed Virginia judge has struck down the Democratic-backed redistricting amendment in full, ruling it unconstitutional and “void from the start.” All votes from the April 21 special election are now invalid, and the state is permanently blocked from using or implementing the new maps. AG Jay Jones says he will immediately file an appeal.
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@swd2 @vikingben02 Tossing an entire special election that is predicated on a legal ballot language is pretty much what courts do when they follow the law. Maybe Democrats shouldn't have tried to bypass the law.
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@vikingben02 The ballot wording was sloppy as hell with “Restore Fairness,” no argument there. But a single circuit judge tossing out an entire special election the VA Supreme Court already greenlit? We’ll see.
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@mattyglesias Keep trying to justify disenfranchising half of VA. You just look like more of a simp.
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If Republicans liked the anti-gerrymandering provision but not the rest of the bill they should put a bill like that on the floor.
If Republicans favor a national gerrymandering bad but not the specific one Dems wrote, they should write a different one.
But stop whining!
Tim Carney@TPCarney
There was no national ban on gerrymandering for Republicans to ban. There was a provision, in a much larger radical bill, that some Dems called a national ban on gerrymandering. Journalists, however, shouldn't repeat dishonest partisan messaging
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@KFordCB9 Pinning this one for after SCOVA rules. The deceptive ballot language alone is disqualifying under the commonwealth constitution.
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Fourth thread on the Tazewell redistricting litigation. Judge Hurley entered final judgment yesterday, voiding HJR 6007 and HB 1384. Three grounds in January. Nine today. I've worked through the new material. My view hasn't changed. I still think this gets reversed.
Kyle Ford@KFordCB9
1. I've now written two threads on the Tazewell redistricting litigation. I didn't expect to write a third. But today, the same court entered a temporary restraining order that goes further than anything before. Here's what happened and why it matters. 🧵
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@ArtCandee @AdamParkhomenko What are you talking about, backbirth? The judge in question is a state judge.
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@AdamParkhomenko Whatever happened to those “states rights” MAGA kept screeching about?
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Virginia voters spoke. MAGA lost. And now a rogue Republican judge is trying to override the will of the people because they didn’t like the outcome.
That’s not democracy. That’s desperation.
I have full confidence a higher court will overturn this nonsense quickly, and the will of Virginia voters will prevail. Nice try.
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