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Furious Democrats Reportedly Float ‘Dramatic’ Idea: Throwing Out Virginia’s Supreme Court to Push Through Gerrymandered Map
Mediaite ^ | May 10, 2026 | Sean James

Posted on 05/11/2026 6:48:15 AM PDT by fwdude

Angry Democratic lawmakers held a venting session this weekend to complain about Virginia’s Supreme Court overturning its new gerrymandered map — and some of the Dems floated a “dramatic idea”: replacing the state’s Supreme Court in order to push through the new map anyway.

That’s according to a report from The New York Times on Sunday afternoon. The paper reported “struggling” Dems like House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) held a private discussion on Saturday, where they fumed about the court’s ruling from a day earlier. They also strategized a potential counterstrike.

Journalist Reid J. Epstein reported the group discussed the “audacious and possibly far-fetched idea” to get the map they all desperately want. Not everyone loved the plan, though.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cheating; commieshasthesads; corruption; democrats; democratshasthesads; democrattruth; gerrymandered; meltdown; redistricting; rigging; tampering; virginia
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Their desperation is high comedy at this point.
1 posted on 05/11/2026 6:48:15 AM PDT by fwdude
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To: fwdude
IMHO the final solution is to use Maidenhead grid squares.

It gets politics and race entirely out of the picture and reduces the travel distance for candidates and representatives.

As I have posted about Maidenhead Grids, I've noticed folks from all parts of the political spectrum are for it, nobody against it.

I just now finally found a good explanation of how it and the sub squares works. Grid Square Locator System Explained

2 posted on 05/11/2026 6:49:42 AM PDT by Mogger ( 7th generation Vermonter, refugee in New Hampshire hoping NH remains sane.)
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To: fwdude

The map was a joke. The wording was a joke. The whole refusal to obey the law was a joke. In short, their hill to die on is just a joke.


3 posted on 05/11/2026 6:50:06 AM PDT by AppyPappy (They don't call you a Nazi because they think you are one. They do it to justify violence. )
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To: fwdude

Once their plan is published in the newspapers, they obviously can’t do it.


4 posted on 05/11/2026 6:50:46 AM PDT by proxy_user
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To: fwdude

REVOLUTION , LOL


5 posted on 05/11/2026 6:55:25 AM PDT by butlerweave (Fateh)
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To: fwdude

Never underestimate what a cornered animal will do. At this point, I think the communists are capable of almost anything.


6 posted on 05/11/2026 6:55:51 AM PDT by brownsfan (We are already on the slippery slope.)
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To: fwdude

Yes but there’s not much more dangerous than a flailing wounded animal with nothing much left to lose.


7 posted on 05/11/2026 6:56:06 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America....so great even the people that hate it, won't leave)
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To: Mogger

Who is most likely to gain the advantage by such as system?


8 posted on 05/11/2026 6:56:43 AM PDT by fwdude (Why is there a "far/radical right," but damned if they'll admit that there is a far/radical left)
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To: brownsfan
At this point, I think the communists are capable of almost anything.

I can see them completely ignoring the court ruling and going ahead with the redrawn districts anyway.

9 posted on 05/11/2026 6:57:48 AM PDT by fwdude (Why is there a "far/radical right," but damned if they'll admit that there is a far/radical left)
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To: fwdude

Just BS. Never happen


10 posted on 05/11/2026 6:58:39 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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To: brownsfan

Never underestimate what someone fighting a cornered animal will do. People defending their families, their heritage, their country and way of life, are capable of almost anything.


11 posted on 05/11/2026 7:05:31 AM PDT by Frank Drebin (And don't ever let me catch you guys in America!)
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To: fwdude

The democrats don’t need no stinking laws or courts


12 posted on 05/11/2026 7:11:00 AM PDT by butlerweave (Fateh)
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To: fwdude
While amusing, it's also dangerous: the Dems are more and more openly striving to impose a one-party dictatorship.

All of our liberties are not supposed to be up for grabs with every election: that's what having a written Constitution and rule of law mean.

The only effective way to stop this is to suppress the Democrat Party for being what it is: a seditious and corrupt criminal conspiracy.

13 posted on 05/11/2026 7:18:45 AM PDT by pierrem15 ("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens" )
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To: fwdude

It’s becoming clearer and clearer that we don’t have anyLaw as far as these demons are concerned.


14 posted on 05/11/2026 7:18:55 AM PDT by TalBlack (Their god is government. Prepare for a religious war.https://freerepublic.com/perl/post?id=4322961%2)
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To: Frank Drebin

” People defending their families, their heritage, their country and way of life, are capable of almost anything.”

I don’t see that kind of fight happening. Conservatives are busy working, it’s the left that has legions of unemployed, indoctrinated scumbags willing to take to the streets, (for some Soros money).


15 posted on 05/11/2026 7:19:22 AM PDT by brownsfan (We are already on the slippery slope.)
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To: pierrem15

The only effective way to stop this is to suppress the Democrat Party for being what it is: a seditious and corrupt criminal conspiracy.
.......

I voted in 2024 for obliteration and draining ..

That’s implied in that.


16 posted on 05/11/2026 7:21:48 AM PDT by delchiante
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To: proxy_user

Newspaper? What’s that?


17 posted on 05/11/2026 7:22:05 AM PDT by subterfuge
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To: delchiante
Trump has refused to invoke the Insurrection Act because of the ICE obstruction, which was his best tool for doing that.

There are many, many reasons to be happy about Trump's domestic policies, but he just does not seem to sense the urgency of the situation, even when the Dems and their media flying monkeys are encouraging his assassination.

18 posted on 05/11/2026 7:27:23 AM PDT by pierrem15 ("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens" )
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...

19 posted on 05/11/2026 7:32:11 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (TDS -- it's not just for DNC shills anymore -- oh, wait, yeah it is.)
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To: brownsfan
Fighting takes many forms. True conservative forces have had countless successes with this administration over the last year. If you don't "see" it then you're choosing to willfully ignore it.

I've seen the clowns in those crowds you're talking about, and so have the working men and women of America you referred to. They've grown sick of it.

20 posted on 05/11/2026 7:32:21 AM PDT by Frank Drebin (And don't ever let me catch you guys in America!)
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