Somebody PLEASE explain This to me?
Alito & Co. have made it CLEAR that they want the Voting Rights Bill GONE….
WTF would they stop Republicans efforts to stop Democrats from using gaining House districts?
Democrats on Monday filed an emergency appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court seeking to halt a Virginia ruling invalidating a ballot measure that would have given their party an additional four winnable U.S. House seats.
The move came after the Virginia Supreme Court on Friday struck down a constitutional amendment that voters narrowly passed just last month. The 4-3 state court decision found that the Democratic-controlled legislature improperly began the process of placing the amendment on the ballot after early voting had begun in the Virginia’s general election last fall.
Democrats argued unsuccessfully that the U.S. Supreme Court has held that, even if early voting is underway, an election does not happen until Election Day itself.
The appeal is the latest twist in the nation’s mid-decade redistricting competition. It was kicked off last year by President Donald Trump urging Republican-controlled states to redraw their lines and was supercharged by a recent Supreme Court rulingseverely weakening the Voting Rights Act….
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The filing is a sign of Democratic desperation after the Virginia decision deprived them of four winnable House seats in the mid-decade redistricting race that President Donald Trump kicked off last year. Democrats are still favorites to recapture the House of Representatives, but their GOP rivals have claimed to have gained more than a dozen seats through redistricting. The voter-approved Virginia map would have partly offset that.
Democrats are taking a legal long shot in asking the justices to reverse the Virginia court’s ruling…..
Note…
Some Democrats want the state to get rid of their current State Supreme Court and then bring back the Democratic generated House districts….Which would be a very Republican move, eh?
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