Lawmakers file motion asking state supreme court to pause its ruling against the redistricting referendum.
After the Virginia Supreme Court on Friday struck down a voter-approved Democratic congressional redistricting plan, Democratic lawmakers in the commonwealth notified the court they intend to appeal the ruling to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Friday’s ruling by the state supreme court delivered another major setback to the party’s nationwide battle against Republicans for an edge in this year’s midterm elections.
Democrats, led by House Speaker Don Scott and Attorney General Jay Jones, filed a motion late Friday afternoon asking the state supreme court to pause its ruling from taking effect while they appeal for an emergency hearing before the U.S. Supreme Court.
As a Virginian, this has hit me hard.
I’m tired, boss.
We need to break out the guillotines and fucking fix it from the top down, and by the top, I mean the oligarchs spending all the money to corrupt most of our politicians. That’s more important than ousting Republicans, although that would be the next fucking step.
:sigh:
But we’re all not starving QUITE enough to get into the streets. They’re fucking dumb, but they know they can only push us so far. And they’re slowly pushing more and more and more to find that limit. And it’s clear we’re not there yet. We’ll pay $10/gallon for gas and see our food prices double if it’s over the next 2-3 years and we still won’t riot, and more and more of the ones on the bottom lose housing, lose their lives for lack of medical care.
We’re dying, but most of us are JUST comfortable enough and JUST precarious enough to be scared to riot.
Fuck all of this. I’m on dialysis. I might have a decade in me, but there’s a good fucking chance I won’t. I got double-screwed by this fucking country and it has greatly shortened my life. But I’m still lucky because I’ve almost always had housing, I’ve always had food sometimes with the help of a food bank, and even more lucky with some occasional help from my dad for emergencies. Yeah. 50 years old and I owe my dad thousands over the years for occasional “oh shit no car means I lose my job” help…
It feels useless. I almost feel like giving up and stopping dialysis and saying fuck it, but I ain’t gonna do that because the human body is surprisingly resiliant about wanting to live for as long as possible. And hey, I got food and right now I have decent medical care, and I even just got disability which will make it easier to scrape by each month until I’m dead.
But goddamn if this timeline doesn’t suck.
we still won’t riot
They’re not reporting this, but there are protests fucking everywhere this foul redistricting is happening. In South Carolina, twenty-three people lined up to speak against this – and ZERO for it. And in Tennessee, Justin Pearson burnt a Confederate flag in the Tennessee State Capitol while others were in the streets. Every legislator involved in this is acting against the will of their constituents.
Media is not here to serve up actual news, much less to tell us the truth: it is billionaire propaganda there to feed us lies about our countrymen and neighbors, and to discourage any thought of lifting a finger that might make this harder for them. Which is probably why they’re not full of articles talking about Reconstruction and Jim Crow and how we’ve already been through this, because their purpose is not to show us as we are, but to hide our own national truth.
And our national truth is that NO ONE WANTS THIS except a handful of the privileged and whoever is still eating the propaganda, which might end up being all they have to eat if they win.
Turns out there’s a reason progressives are winning by double-digit spreads in these recent special elections, and it has nothing to do with Israel: people like the idea of single payer healthcare, of not going to or paying for expensive foreign wars, people really like the Voting Rights Act as it was written, people really just fucking like democracy. And what all of this current open power grabbing is accomplishing, beyond destroying what we value, is motivating the masses: at the very least, a LOT more people are paying attention now. That’s far more than could be said even two years ago.
Look, I don’t want to blow sunshine up your ass, this is bleak. But chaos is the kitchen of change and NO ONE WANTS THIS. The way I see it, this is the cancer and rot coming to the surface once again in American history: we deal with it now, or we lose our country. But with the people even in the reddest of red states showing up to say no unilaterally, with one voice, I at least know I am not alone.
I am in a similar health situation as yourself, with similar choices to make about destination, but I suspect that like me your battles have made you solid: you know where your victories can still be had and you turn you attention to those, even as the possibility of smaller wins inexorably narrows with time and health. I read your comments here and I know you care about your neighbors and your country, you think things through and you have strong values. And if you didn’t very deeply give a shit, none of this would be affecting you like it is right now. In my opinion, among others who post here you are, in a phrase, the best of us. I deeply respect your struggles, and the life-and-death stakes you face daily, because I face them myself. It is for this reason I want you around to see what happens next, because I am still of the opinion that the deep, profound anger and betrayal that is even now simmering in what used to be the maga base will yet explode.
I write this knowing that someone will be along soon to shit on it, because you know, hope bad, but even so, I believed it needed to be said, and I wish you well. May your Sunday be better than your Saturday was.
Ooh wait was this some sort of scorched earth plan? To fork SCOTUS into an all or nothing decision?
Though I’m sure the worst bench in SCOTUS history will find a way to thread the needle to letting only red states do this.
Easy: Your state supreme court says its against your state constitution. We’re not going to take the case.
I’m sure the SC will say they can’t overrule the state courts.
Pathetic.
Asking permission to do what multiple other red state governments have done themselves without permission.
What happens if SCOTUS turns you down?
Respect the fix?
Roberts court will have to side with Virginia because otherwise they’ll have to explain why Florida ignoring their constitution is ok while the people voting for this is not.
