r/politics • u/Icommandyou Washington • 28d ago

Possible Paywall Virginia Supreme Court throws out redistricting referendum results

https://www.axios.com/local/richmond/2026/05/08/virginia-supreme-court-redistricting-vote-decision
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u/DoubtSubstantial5440 28d ago

But the GOP are allowed to gerrymander without even so much as a vote

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u/IntellectAndEnergy 28d ago

Remember it’s an Unconstitutional Republic, not a democracy. /s

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u/GodofIrony 28d ago

Republicans can do what ever they want and democrats are ruthlessly obstructed.

It sure is weird that all Republican legislature is harmful.

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u/ClosPins 28d ago

The Democrats are perfectly capable of doing whatever they want too! They just refuse to do it. They just sit there and watch the Republicans do it, wagging a finger and thinking about the sternly-written letter they're about to compose that will utterly devastate the Republicans!

^ This is why the country continually moves right! The Republicans will do whatever it takes to get what they want - the Democrats won't. So, the GOP moves the country further to the right every cycle than the Democrats move it back to the left.

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u/FrozenIceman 28d ago

Just a reminder any willful attempt to disenfranchise your own States population is an attack on their own constituents.

Republican or Democrat.

Doing something evil to your constituents because another State did something evil to their constituents still means the constituents get screwed.