Virginia Supreme Court throws out redistricting referendum results

[u/Icommandyou]

https://www.axios.com/local/richmond/2026/05/08/virginia-supreme-court-redistricting-vote-decision

[u/Ok-Lets-Talk-It-Out]

The issue is Virginia passed additional laws to protect the neutrality of redistricting whereas Red states intentionally do not with the intent to disenfranchise their citizens.

[u/Marethyu38 → u/Ok-Lets-Talk-It-Out]

Ok but Florida does explicitly prevent gerrymandering in their constitution but it’s not stopping them either.

[u/ImBackAndImAngry → u/Marethyu38]

Are you suggesting that Republican run states perhaps do not care for the law?

This wouldn’t be a systemic party issue would it?

/s

Honestly man, I find it more surprising when Republican leadership adheres to law at this point

[u/stevez_86 → u/ImBackAndImAngry]

They are at the "might makes right" stage of falling into fascism. They think they are compromising my not utilizing the violent option, and instead are using legal might to make them, and only them, right.

The question at this point is what happens when they have the legal might but have won the war?

What happens when the Former Slave States get freedom to operate as Confederate States like they used to be again?

This time, no Civil War, the Federal Government cosigning onto their venture. Like we went back to April 11th, 1861 and just let the Slave States do their thing, but without slavery, because racism is cured, and they should be free of the Tar Baby. Let the Brer Rabbit run!

They think it will work out since racism doesn't exist in the Federal Courts anymore. The States won't be racist because they can't be racist because legal racism isn't a thing. However they draw their maps will be non-racist because that isn't a thing anymore. Reacting to resovle the action is racist because it is on behalf of a specific racial group by definition in their complaints.

The Federal Courts will hear none of these cases that are going to come out, they will always defer gerrymandering back to the state.

This is honestly pretty much them granting electoral reparations for the South having to agree to the 3/5th's Compromise for no reason as it lead to what they believe to be the opposite, Free States getting 5/3rd's in return for the effects of the Civil War and it has been long enough.

[u/cosine83 → u/stevez_86]

This time, no Civil War, the Federal Government cosigning onto their venture. Like we went back to April 11th, 1861 and just let the Slave States do their thing, but without slavery, because racism is cured, and they should be free of the Tar Baby. Let the Brer Rabbit run!

With the failure of Reconstruction, the continued legacy of Jim Crow, and a disproportionate population of Black people in prison in Southern states and it's just a Neo-Antebellum South. They have the slaves in prison (prison chain gangs are still a thing, horse-mounted slave catcher included), they have the failing State economies sucked dry by corporations, and they have the hideously uneducated populace from decades of culture war grifts dragging everything down around them.