It’s just a circuit court, and might be overruled, but the Virginia gerrymander vote has been declared unconstitutional
A circuit court in Virginia just ruled that the newly passed but incredibly biased gerrymandered congressional map is unconstitutional.
Former Virginia attorney general and Homeland Security official Ken Cuccinelli II posted on X Wednesday about the gerrymandered map, “UPDATE on referendum lawsuits: The Tazewell Circuit Court just ruled the referendum unconstitutional. The Judge entered an injunction blocking certification of the election & denied a motion to stay pending appeal. A final order will be entered once drafted, & it will be immediately appealed.”
It sure will. The Virginia Supreme Court refused to rule on the vote in advance, but now they will almost certainly need to do so. Of course, it will be more difficult to say it’s unconstitutional once “the people have spoken.” Difficult, but not impossible. It sounds to me like a timid court, though. Will the case ultimately be heard by SCOTUS?
Would put money their gerrymandering gets through
It seems like the Democrats can no longer tell right from wrong. Not that they ever had a very good grasp of it.
They really do want to rule us.
From what I can tell, this is a matter of whether Virginia’s Democrat
Party-controlled General Assembly (it’s legislature) complied with (i) procedural rules relating to what issues may be considered in a special session of the General Assembly, and (ii) complied with Virginia Constitution timing requirements regarding when the popular vote approval election may be scheduled. Virginia’s Tazewell County Circuit Court Judge Jack S. Hurley Jr. reasoning appears straight forward. Nevertheless, I can see where an appellate court could construe rules and events in a way that results in the General Assembly’s actions being considered kosher.
The “unconstitutional” ruling relates to the foregoing, and not to anything in the U.S. Constitution.
About damn time we had some “lawfare” on our side.