Posted on 12/04/2025 11:08:27 AM PST by Republican Wildcat
Virginia Democrats appear to be sticking to a plan to put a constitutional amendment before voters that would allow a new congressional map in 2026, despite a sweeping victory in November's general election and a fluid redistricting landscape nationwide.
In October, Democrats used their slim majorities in the House of Delegates and state Senate to pass the first step in changing Virginia's constitution, recommending an amendment that would allow the Legislature to sideline the bipartisan commission that draws Virginia's political maps.
Just a few days later, voters expanded House Speaker Don Scott's 51–49 majority to 64–36 and sent Governor-elect Abigail Spanberger to the executive mansion with a 15-percentage-point victory.
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Nothing UNCONSTITUTIONAL about this, right???
Now, if it were a republican effort to do the same, you would most certainly have some republicans opposing it was the case in Indiana’s attempt.
The GOP is absolutely worthless and gutless.
The GOP is absolutely worthless and gutless.
And, I even sent them a YUGE box full of new spines, for Christmas, last year.
We see where that got us.
President Trump is the only elected Republican with guts.
There MAY be a SMALL handful of others, but, I can’t name them, offhand.
Many of those Virginia Democrats are about to find out if they are otherwise employable.
Seems like an equal representation issue. The SC needs to rule that political districts need be divided in such a way as to represent the affiliation of the States registered voters.
A federal court needs to step in and block all Democrat gerrymandering schemes.
There’s darn near nothing left to gerrymander in these blue states. They’ve already gerrymandered the pudding out of congressional districts to maintain power.
A State “Constitutional Amendment” to disband bipartisan redistricting committees? That’s what California just did.
How much blood can they get out of this turnip?
*Oppose Voter ID
*Support Motor Voter for illegals
*Impose statewide mail-in ballots (Colorado, etc.)
*Promote illegal immigration in all cases
*Defy Federal law and promote contradictory State laws
*Shop for Federal judges that will oppose the sitting president around 300 times in 10 months.
That’s almost one a day boys and girls. I call them “Galactic Injunctions”.
A district judge puts the gavel down on a nationwide injunction. That means an international injunction with matters pertaining to immigration, criminals, drugs, etc.
An International Injunction means Global. The entire planet. This planet is the only known planet in the solar system with human life. Likewise, this solar system is the only known one in the galaxy that holds intelligent life.
Therefore, when a judge issues an order of injunction, it applies to whole galaxy. That might be too much power for an 80 or 90 year old lifetime federal judge to have.
Quod erat demonstrandum.
There is no reason that Virginia should not have remained Republican. Only a weak-kneed GOP in this state caused this.
RINO Governor Youngkin’s capitulation to the Gaystapo in signing their “same-sex marriage” law into effect in 2024 was unforgivable and probably turned a LOT of Republicans off of the brand.
This is what non-partisan commissions get you. The democrats will just go around them and get their will anyway, while Republicans look on.
scumbags. only care about power and tyranny
“There’s darn near nothing left to gerrymander in these blue states. They’ve already gerrymandered the pudding out of congressional districts to maintain power.”
“How much blood can they get out of this turnip?”
There are lots of “blue” turnips left in the patch.
Virginia
New York
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Illinois
Maryland
Colorado
Oregon
Nevada
Washington
Minnesota
Michigan
Wisconsin
Some of them (VA and MD at the very least) are already in progress. Others are not — yet. And some may never be, but it would be foolish to rule anything out at this point. Laws which may be on the books regarding redistricting mean nothing to Democrats, as they have illustrated in CA and VA.
In some of the above states (MD, NV) the most the Rats can get is 1 more seat. In all of the others, they can get more. Every one of the above are under complete or *near*-complete Democrat control legislatively and judicially.
Sure there are some states where the GOP can retaliate if they grow a spine (looking at you, Indiana), but then watch how fast Democrat judges leap into action.
The current delegation is 6-5 D to R and the gerrymandering plan is to make it 10-1 D to R.
Redistricting/gerrymandering, needs to end.
Let’s have votes by county.
Every county should be weighted depending on their population. Small counties will get a small number, commensurate to the size of the population there. Bigger counties will get bigger numbers, some of them huge numbers.
The snake=shaped districts need to be gone. Let each county be represented via the politics of the population.
Each county can be considered an electoral vote, with size determining the size of the weight of each electoral vote or district.
People move, and the value of a district changes all the time, and gerrymandering does not consider that electoral votes may not represent the real politics of the population as it changes all the time.
Well, the state overall is at least 50/50 Dem vs Rep if not more Rep. To take representation to 10/1 is really unbelievable.
We need to start making our money count, and boycott these states as much as we can. Nobody is going to fight this battle for us.
“Nothing UNCONSTITUTIONAL about this, right???”
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Not if Texas is now the precedent.
Districts have to be drawn based on population being as equal as possible in each one.
Your solution requires a Constitutional Amendment. Good luck.
He was an outlier
If I'm on the SCOTUS, I'll view it as a political issue that belongs to the states. It is not their job to be the "referee" in a state's political debate between two parties regarding gerrymandering.
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