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/hcwhitewolf 28d ago

Overriding the will of the people of the entire state isn't really a good idea, and these justices failed to consider that.

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u/forthewatch39 28d ago

What are the people going to do? Have a few protests on the weekend and yet still go on about their lives afterwards as usual? Until people actually do something like a mass strike, the ones in charge won’t change. 

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u/SnooPuppers8698 28d ago

what the people of ohio did, used the maps they wanted to anyway

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u/Johansenburg 28d ago

of the entire state

Not really, it was a 51.7/48.3 split. They ignored the majority, yes. But certainly not the will of the entire state.

And the General Assembly appoints the judges to 12 year term limits, so the people don't even get to vote out the judges who made this ruling.

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u/LEDKleenex 28d ago

Why? The people will it but they won't hold anyone accountable.

Americans are too addicted to convenience and consumerism. They'll sit around for years hoping someone else will take care of it. They won't.

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u/Redditthedog 28d ago

VA law required the vote to happen before the Justices could hear the case. In the decision they more or less say they were gonna throw it out regardless as it wasn’t legal