cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/60005391
Top Virginia Democrats have decided against exercising a controversial procedural end run around last week’s state Supreme Court ruling that struck down their redistricting, which wiped away a gain of four House seats, the Democratic leader of the state Senate told The New Republic.
The decision—which nixes a complicated idea, discussed over the weekend by Democrats, to replace the state Supreme Court and get the case reheard—is likely to anger rank-and-file Democrats who had hoped the party would respond aggressively to the ruling, which has made it more likely that Republicans hold the House this fall.
The decision also contrasts sharply with moves undertaken by many GOP state legislatures in the South, who are aggressively gerrymandering their states with wild abandon to erase decades-old majority-majority seats from existence, after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a key Voting Rights Act protection against racial gerrymanders.
They deserve all the ire. Stand for something you weak willed cowards.
Non-voters did nothing in the face of fascism. Ill boo them too.
Most non voters realize you get the same results regardless of which shade of fascism gets elected, nothing changes.
Yep. If the voters don’t show up, it’s not like the Democratic Party deserves all the blame.
I keep getting chastised about how politically incorrect it is to point the fingers at the voters, though. As if there is really any other option…