Thank Reynolds v. Sims. Now the looters get to gerrymander both Houses, whereas before, Virginia could simply have an equal number of Senators (say, 1) for each county and independent city (such as Fairfax), with a 2/3 majority required in each House before they could “countymander.”
When these Bloomberg-Soros-Chicomm horrorshows has such a power to inflict such damage on all local areas of Virginia, wouldn’t a state Senate, such as I described above, be better. In all practicality, such a VA Senate would typically retain a conservative majority.
I think the decision by the Supremes to involve themselves in state legislative redistricting was a grievous mistake. To wit: the State Senates should be allowed to represent geographical areas and not on population. In ruling THAT unconstitutional, that similarly means that all U.S. Senate seats would be as well, since they do not represent the population of the nation.
Too many legislatures of the Demonrat bent are slaves to geographically small enclaves of urban dysfunction and force the remainders of their state to the whims of their corruption and immorality. That a single county or two can hold sway over an entire state is an abomination. Witness Illinois or Oregon. Remove one county out of dozens, and the entire political dynamic changes.