Virginia’s leadership is preparing to fight its state Supreme Court ruling Friday overturning Democrats’ redistricting referendum.
In a statement, Democratic state Attorney General Jay Jones called out the court’s decision as “putting politics over the rule of law.”
“This decision silences the voices of the millions of Virginians who cast their ballots in every corner of the Commonwealth, and it fuels the growing fears across our nation about the state of our democracy,” Jones said. “My team is carefully reviewing this unprecedented order and we are evaluating every legal pathway forward to defend the will of the people and protect the integrity of Virginia’s elections.”
Senator Tim Kaine criticized the timing of the state’s Supreme Court ruling, saying that “If the Virginia Supreme Court had legitimate concerns about this referendum, the time to stop it would have been before three million Virginians cast their ballots.”
“The U.S. Supreme Court eviscerates the Voting Rights Act in a lawsuit brought by a January 6 extremist and Southern states race to craft backroom deals disenfranchising minority voters and candidates. Meanwhile Virginia voters choose to stand up against national disenfranchisement only to see their votes cast into the trash by a 4-3 ruling,” Kaine said.
Meanwhile, Republican-led states across the country continue to gerrymander following President Trump’s demand for mid-decade redistricting and the Supreme Court’s gutting of the Voting Rights Act last week. Most of those actions took or are taking place without state referendums, basically forcing through new congressional maps that disenfranchise Democrats and Black Americans.
One polling expert, Zachary Donnini of VoteHub, projects that nine Republican-led states will have successfully redrawn their maps this year, barring any court orders, as opposed to just one Democratic-led state. Thanks to a conservative-controlled Supreme Court, the GOP gets to stack the deck and deny Black people representation.
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