Top Virginia Democrats have decided against exercising a controversial procedural end run around last week’s state Supreme Court ruling that struck down their redistricting, which wiped away a gain of four House seats, the Democratic leader of the state Senate told The New Republic.
The decision—which nixes a complicated idea, discussed over the weekend by Democrats, to replace the state Supreme Court and get the case reheard—is likely to anger rank-and-file Democrats who had hoped the party would respond aggressively to the ruling, which has made it more likely that Republicans hold the House this fall.
The decision also contrasts sharply with moves undertaken by many GOP state legislatures in the South, who are aggressively gerrymandering their states with wild abandon to erase decades-old majority-majority seats from existence, after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a key Voting Rights Act protection against racial gerrymanders.
Every so often I think that there’s not another new low that Democrats won’t go in order to preserve their status quo. Yet here we are. Can’t wait to see which group BM decides to blame this time
Mr. Coates’ comment of “if you can’t draw the line at genocide, you probably can’t draw the line at democracy” rings louder every fucking day
One of the few silver linings in this mess is that a whole lot of assholes who don’t deserve democracy will suffer a small fraction of what they’ve forced on others for generations.