Comments on: The courts and the Virginia referendum: redux https://thenewneo.com/2026/04/23/the-courts-and-the-virginia-referendum-redux/ A blog about political change, among other things Fri, 24 Apr 2026 20:41:38 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: FOAF https://thenewneo.com/2026/04/23/the-courts-and-the-virginia-referendum-redux/#comment-2849216 Fri, 24 Apr 2026 20:41:38 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=148786#comment-2849216 Chases Eagles: “lying, cheating election stealing shit bags.”

Don’t go so easy on them.

]]> By: Chases Eagles https://thenewneo.com/2026/04/23/the-courts-and-the-virginia-referendum-redux/#comment-2849069 Fri, 24 Apr 2026 02:38:38 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=148786#comment-2849069 The measure was passed by election fraud like every other election controlled by the lying, cheating election stealing shit bags.

]]> By: Niketas Choniate https://thenewneo.com/2026/04/23/the-courts-and-the-virginia-referendum-redux/#comment-2849044 Thu, 23 Apr 2026 22:47:44 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=148786#comment-2849044 @Geoffrey Britain:the Virginia S.C. Justices take an oath of allegiance to the US Constitution.

Doesn’t matter in this case. The US Constitution does not tell states how to draw their districts. Now, they should rule that it violates the Virginia Constitution, but unfortunately state Supreme Court justices have ruled their own constitutions to be unconstitutional before. If the Virginia Supreme Court lets this go there’s probably nowhere to go for relief.

a declaration that disenfranchising nearly half of Virginia’s voters is not unconstitutional

They’re not “disenfranchised” just because they’re not in a district where the majority agrees with them. Hyperbole doesn’t do any good here, neither does trying to use the argument the Dems use against our gerrymandering. The issue is not what the result was, it was if the process was or wasn’t followed. Voters can amend their state constitutions in all kinds of damned-fool ways and frequently do; they can’t be protected from themselves unless you want to get rid of voting.

]]> By: Sennacherib https://thenewneo.com/2026/04/23/the-courts-and-the-virginia-referendum-redux/#comment-2849042 Thu, 23 Apr 2026 22:43:31 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=148786#comment-2849042 It’s happening ” the Left gainsaying itself” the Left doesn’t care!

]]> By: Geoffrey Britain https://thenewneo.com/2026/04/23/the-courts-and-the-virginia-referendum-redux/#comment-2849033 Thu, 23 Apr 2026 22:21:39 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=148786#comment-2849033 Like all government officials, the Virginia S.C. Justices take an oath of allegiance to the US Constitution. A failure to rule that this redistricting is clearly unconstitutional would in effect be a declaration that disenfranchising nearly half of Virginia’s voters is not unconstitutional… As such, such a ruling would also be in fact, a violation of their Oath of Office. The DOJ should prosecute every judge who is in clear violation of that oath.

]]> By: Kate https://thenewneo.com/2026/04/23/the-courts-and-the-virginia-referendum-redux/#comment-2849023 Thu, 23 Apr 2026 21:25:25 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=148786#comment-2849023 There ought to be a 7-0 ruling, but I doubt it.

]]> By: neo https://thenewneo.com/2026/04/23/the-courts-and-the-virginia-referendum-redux/#comment-2849022 Thu, 23 Apr 2026 21:16:29 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=148786#comment-2849022 sdferr:

I would be very surprised to see a 7-0 ruling. But I sure hope he’s right.

]]> By: sdferr https://thenewneo.com/2026/04/23/the-courts-and-the-virginia-referendum-redux/#comment-2849021 Thu, 23 Apr 2026 21:07:30 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=148786#comment-2849021

Senior Fellow Ken Cuccinelli joins @CNN as the legal fight heats up over Virginia’s redistricting referendum: “There’s some very basic processes in the Constitution for amending the constitution that Democrats ignored. They were ignoring the will of the people in how they brought this forward. And now we’re going to have this decided in the Virginia Supreme Court.

I wouldn’t be surprised to see a 7-0 ruling throwing this out.”

https://x.com/i/status/2047336514485457008

See link for 2:45 video clip

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