Best option would be for the Virginia legislature to proceed with the redistricting as planned, as other state have done in the past.
If only one side is playing by “the rules” then the rules mean nothing
Would the court not just strike that down?
Courts don’t matter if no one is enforcing their rulings. Republicans repeatedly ignore court orders without consequence.
I’ve definitely voted under illegal maps before, every map they’ve drawn my entire life has been struck down, until now
Ohio Republicans ignored their court and used an illegal map in 2024.
That’s what Missouri is doing this year!
You can look into when the Ohio legislature, under Republican control, being told by a court that they can’t use those, and then proceeding to use those maps.
A legislature can just ignore the courts.
Alternatively they could issue a law determining the conclusion of the court to be retroactively irrelevant.
The ball is back in the legislatures court, but there are about a dozen ways they can still make this happen. That being said, its been a terrible week for voting rights and its a bad signal for Dem’s in the mid-terms.
Yeah… How much do we trust the Dems to fire that second shell?
If this isn’t the “full send” era for Democrats, then we have to be done with Democrats. We are well past the point where the degree and extent of their incompetence can put on the next election cycles tab, as a the party of “better luck next time” or “voter harderer”; the party of “this is the very most important election of our times ever part II, the remix; but we’re going to campaign like its 1994”.
Democrats have repeatedly shown themselves to be utterly incompetent stewards of the power we give them, and their argument for their mismanagement has consistently been “its the voters fault”. We are assuredly in the “too little, too late” part of finding out, and I don’t know what the future holds. I caught a lot of flack for trying to intone the severity of the stories and articles around voting rights this week and took many downvotes for the suggestion that where we are at is largely a function of how Democrats choose to govern. We aren’t going to be able to “cheer-lead” democrats to victory; its simply not enough. We not only need long term structural reform (which Democrats need to be expressing, in lockstep, as a unified party), but we also need short-term, interim stop gaps to survive this November, because with maps like these, its not gonna matter how many blue voters pokemon go to the poles.
What happened today probably puts the house out of reach, if we can expect Democratic legislatures to continue to do business as they’ve historically done so. There simply isn’t enough play in the system and peoples extreme dissatisfaction with the system can only get you so far when these structural barriers are being entrenched even more deeply than they already were. At least in elections.
Just use it, let them sort it out 18 months later if we get around to it
If it’s good for the goose…
Start diggin’ some judge holes
Those Republican judges have no one to blame but themselves when people start sniping at them, too.
They’re literally overturning the will of the majority to ensure a white minority gets to rule no matter what the people say. That’s fucking outrageous, frankly worse than a lot of what Trump does, and they deserve whatever fate befalls them.
