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fromwww.mediaite.com
1 day agoWe Are the Most Gerrymandered Republican State in the Country': GOP Leader Speaks Out Against Redistricting Effort
South Carolina’s Senate Majority Leader opposes congressional redistricting, saying the state is already intentionally heavily gerrymandered and could backfire politically.
SF politics
fromwww.mediaite.com
3 days agoFurious Democrats Reportedly Float Dramatic' Idea: Throwing Out Virginia's Supreme Court to Push Through Gerrymandered Map
Democrats considered replacing Virginia’s Supreme Court to reinstate a gerrymandered map after a ruling overturned it, while consulting lawyers and debating viability.
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4 days agoBreathtakingly Dumb': Fox's Jonathan Turley Torches Democrats Over Colossal' Gerrymandering Loss
Virginia Democrats’ congressional map effort was rejected by the Virginia Supreme Court for failing constitutional procedures and was criticized as extreme gerrymandering.
#voting-rights-act
US politics
fromSlate Magazine
6 days agoWhy Democrats Stand No Chance in the Gerrymandering Wars
The Supreme Court's Louisiana v. Callais decision effectively dismantles Voting Rights Act protections, allowing Republican legislators to eliminate majority-Black voting districts by relabeling racial gerrymanders as partisan, enabling significant Republican congressional gains by 2028.
US Elections
fromAbove the Law
5 days agoVirginia Supreme Court Overturns Election Because Redistricting Isn't Legal Unless It Disenfranchises Black Voters - Above the Law
Virginia’s statewide election approving political district maps was overturned by the state supreme court after the maps were treated as purely political.
US Elections
fromAbove the Law
1 day agoJonathan Turley Defends Virginia Redistricting Opinion By Refusing To Explain It - Above the Law
Virginia’s Supreme Court overturned a statewide election approving new congressional maps, ruling the amendment process unconstitutional and unprecedented in state history.
fromwww.theguardian.com
5 days agoVirginia supreme court strikes down new congressional maps in win for Republicans
Virginia's supreme court on Friday ruled that the state cannot use new congressional maps approved by voters to help Democrats gain as many as four new seats in the US House of Representatives, handing Republicans a major win ahead of November's midterm elections. The court found that the state's general assembly did not follow the appropriate constitutional procedure in approving the map, which voters then passed in a referendum last month. This constitutional violation incurably taints the resulting referendum vote and nullifies its legal efficacy, the court wrote in its decision.
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fromwww.aljazeera.com
5 days agoTrump calls for incitement' charges against top Democrat Hakeem Jeffries
Trump calls for criminal charges against Democratic House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries, falsely linking his redistricting comments to a shooting incident to escalate legal action against political opponents.
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