Virginia's redistricting has FAILED

[Fluffypants]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA 

https://www.axios.com/local/richmond/2026/05/08/virginia-supreme-court-redistricting-vote-decision

The Virginia Supreme Court overturned the results of the state's redistricting referendum, which voters narrowly approved last month.

Why it matters: The 4-3 ruling upends one of the most closely watched redistricting fights in the country.

• It follows months of legal challenges over whether the referendum was unconstitutional.

The big picture: The Friday decision says the amendment process pushed by Democrats violated the state constitution, effectively blocking the effort to redraw congressional maps mid-decade.

• That's after the state spent $5.2 million to pay for the special election, and outside groups raised nearly $100 million to sway voters.
• The new map would have been in effect for the November midterms and was expected to shift the state's congressional split from 6-5 favoring Democrats to 10-1.

Between the lines: It was a move Democrats said would've countered Republican-led states that redrew districts to add GOP seats in a closely divided U.S. House.

• Republicans, who have repeatedly sued to block the redistricting vote, have called it extreme, illegal and hyperpartisan.

Zoom in: A central part of the case during oral arguments concerned what qualifies as the "next general election" under Virginia's constitution.

• Virginia law requires amendments to move through two General Assembly sessions: one before the House has an election (last November) and one after.
• Republicans have argued that lawmakers had improperly advanced the amendment after early voting for the 2025 House elections had already begun.
• Meanwhile, Democrats have said that an "election" is a single day in November.

What they're saying: Siding with Republicans, the high court ruled that Virginia's "general election" includes the early voting period, not just Election Day.

• That violation "incurably taints" the referendum and invalidates the vote, per the ruling.

The other side: Virginia House Speaker Don Scott, a Democrat, said in a statement, "We respect the decision of the Supreme Court of Virginia."

 

• But Attorney General Jay Jones blasted the ruling as politically motivated, accusing the court of putting "politics over the rule of law" and "silenc[ing] the voices" of Virginia voters.
• Jones said his office is reviewing "every legal pathway forward."

Context: The state Supreme Court overturning voters' decision is rare, but it happened at least once in 1958, per Cardinal News.

• The high court ruled that Arlington residents had voted on an unconstitutional law in 1956 and struck down the election results.

The intrigue: If Democrats appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court, it wouldn't be the first time Virginia election disputes have landed there.

• In 2024, former Attorney General Jason Miyares won a last-minute U.S. Supreme Court ruling, allowing Virginia to resume its voter purge program days before Election Day.

Edited May 8 by Fluffypants

[gatomontes99]

Called it. 

[Fluffypants]

12 minutes ago, gatomontes99 said:

Called it. 

The Virginia Supreme Court called it before they even had the vote. They warned them and they went forward and cut every corner they could to push this nakedly partisan gerrymander and broke their own laws.

I love the crying over it, "but but everyone else can do it and we can't its not fair." Fact is they followed their processes according to their laws. Virginia rushed the whole thing and didn't do it correctly.

Edited May 8 by Fluffypants

[Hodad]

1 hour ago, Fluffypants said:

The Virginia Supreme Court called it before they even had the vote. They warned them and they went forward and cut every corner they could to push this nakedly partisan gerrymander and broke their own laws.

I love the crying over it, "but but everyone else can do it and we can't its not fair." Fact is they followed their processes according to their laws. Virginia rushed the whole thing and didn't do it correctly.

Aren't you a supporter of nakedly partisan gerrymandering? Are you also upset about Texas? 

Or are you just nakedly partisan too. 

[User]

5 minutes ago, Hodad said:

Aren't you a supporter of nakedly partisan gerrymandering? Are you also upset about Texas? 

Or are you just nakedly partisan too. 

The issue was not gerrymandering, but HOW it was done… 

Do try to keep up. 

[Fluffypants]

1 hour ago, Hodad said:

Aren't you a supporter of nakedly partisan gerrymandering? Are you also upset about Texas? 

Or are you just nakedly partisan too. 

Texas switched their districts to match California before they gerrymandered percentagewise, while you have 0 Republican reps in the NE when in most of those states they voted republican 40%

Edited May 8 by Fluffypants

[West]

Democrats illegally trying to rig an election... shocking 😲 

[Nationalist]

On 5/8/2026 at 3:56 PM, User said:

The issue was not gerrymandering, but HOW it was done… 

Do try to keep up. 

Don't mind @Hodad. He think Bass should be mayor of L.A. again because she has a resume.

Yup...he is what it sounds like...

A blithering id1ot.

[Deluge]

On 5/8/2026 at 1:50 PM, Hodad said:

Aren't you a supporter of nakedly partisan gerrymandering? Are you also upset about Texas? 

Or are you just nakedly partisan too. 

I'm a supporter of the Right winning and the Left being purged from this country.  

[Nationalist]

54 minutes ago, Deluge said:

I'm a supporter of the Right winning and the Left being purged from this country.  

It used to be that the extreme liberal and extreme conservative views were laughed at and ignored. That's no longer true.

Today the extreme liberals have taken over the Democrat party. While the extreme conservatives are mad as Hell because the last Democrat government went after them with a smear campaign and spying on them.

There are no "classical" liberals anymore. Ok maybe Federman...but the crazy-ass Libbies will destroy him politically.

Well...the Democrat party wants to "eat the rich" now. I say, let 'em try. All they'll do is force businesses and thousands of jobs, to move where they are not on the menu.

In short...the liberals (Democrats) have gone completely self-destructive and bat-shit crazy. So...

I call them "Libbies".

[Reg Volk]