Source: Alex Wong / Getty Here’s the thing: the GOP has a casual racism problem. To be sure, it has an overt racism problem as well — and our current president is the MAGA grand wizard in charge when it comes to fostering it — but the tendency for Republican officials to end up drowning […]
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Supreme Court Paves Way For Alabama To Use Racially Gerrymandered Map
Source: diane555 / Getty On Monday, the Supreme Court cleared the way for Alabama to use a congressional map that a lower court previously ruled was racially gerrymandered. NBC News reports that the Supreme Court set aside those previous rulings and sent the case back to the lower courts for relitigation. Alabama has tried for […]
Read MoreVirginia Supreme Court Strikes Down Democrats’ Redistricting Effort
Source: The Washington Post / Getty The hits really don’t stop coming. As if the Supreme Court’s decision to gut the Voting Rights Act last week wasn’t bad enough, on Friday, the Virginia Supreme Court ruled that the state’s Democratic-led redistricting effort was unconstitutional. AP News reports that, in a 4-3 ruling, the court found […]
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Virginia Supreme Court Upholds Block Preventing Redistricting Vote Certification
Source: The Washington Post / Getty Last week, Virginia voters narrowly approved a constitutional amendment that would implement a new congressional map, giving Democrats a 10-1 advantage in House seats. While it looked like a victory for Democrats nationwide, on Tuesday, the Virginia Supreme Court upheld a lower-court ruling blocking certification of the vote. WUSA […]
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Virginia Supreme Court Set To Rule On Redistricting Effort
Source: The Washington Post / Getty On Monday, the Virginia Supreme Court began hearing arguments in a case that could either give Democrats the advantage heading into the midterms or render Virginia’s redistricting effort moot. According to AP, the Virginia Supreme Court is weighing whether or not state Democrats followed proper procedure in triggering the […]
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Republican Pressure Grows For Florida To Undergo Redistricting Effort
Source: Joe Raedle / Getty On Tuesday, Virginia voters dealt a devastating blow to the GOP in the nationwide redistricting battle by voting “yes” on a new congressional map that would give Democrats a 10-1 advantage in the state. With Democrats now narrowly edging out Republicans in the number of House seats up for grabs, […]
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Virginia Voters Narrowly Pass Redistricting Referendum
Source: The Washington Post / Getty President Donald Trump’s scheme to gerrymander the midterm elections is on life support after Virginia voters approved a constitutional amendment that could give Democrats four new House seats in the state. According to AP, the referendum narrowly passed with 51% of the vote. Should the state Supreme Court allow […]
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Virginia Supreme Court Rules Redistricting Vote Can Proceed
Source: Alex Wong / Getty Ahead of the state’s elections last November, the Virginia Grand Assembly made the shocking decision to begin a redistricting effort to counter Republican efforts to gerrymander their way to a victory in this year’s midterm elections. Predictably, Virginia Republicans weren’t thrilled about the surprise redistricting effort and have tried to […]
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Judge Blocks Voter Referendum For Virginia Redistricting
Source: PAUL J. RICHARDS / Getty Virginia was a surprise entrant into the ongoing, nationwide redistricting battle. After Democrats took the governor’s seat, the attorney general’s office, and extended their majority in the Grand Assembly, it looked like it would be smooth sailing for their redistricting effort. Unfortunately, that was not the case. A circuit […]
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